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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 7443307" data-attributes="member: 6683613">Here's a good overview:<a href="https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/51914/title/Are-the-Brains-of-Transgender-People-Different-from-Those-of-Cisgender-People-/" target="_blank">"Are the Brains of Transgender People Different from Those of Cisgender People?"</a>From my (layman's) reading of the neuroscience, I'd call it a simplification to say that "a trans woman's brain works more like a cis woman's brain than like a man's, and vice-versa." There's something going on in the brain, it's definitely not just sociological, but, like everything brain-related... it's complicated. Sometimes they're more like one cis gender, sometimes they're more like the other, sometimes they seem to be just doing their own thing.But for our purposes as a society, the only really relevant part of the science is establishing that trans people are "born this way" (or, possibly, "developed this way"-- doesn't matter), that it's not a choice they make or something culturally imposed upon them. The details don't affect how we should move forward. A trans man could have an absolutely standard issue biologically female brain except for the one bit that says "I am a man", and that still wouldn't we should make him wear a dress, because we shouldn't make anyone wear a dress unless they want to, that's just rude.</blockquote>