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Science finally supports that we are all born as blank slates and gender is merely a construct

myautisticpov:

actuallyclintbarton:

gogoboywonder:

cutiequeercris:

joeyksilk:

lgbtqi-support-equality:

grace-and-ace:

pand3mic-at-the-disco:

zvaigzdelasas:

If any of my followers believes that “brain sex” is a rigid and well defined category check this out

I actually did a study on this in my freshman year of university!

I had to give a ten minute presentation on gender and a) how it’s different from sex, and b) whether or not there’s such thing as a “male” and “female” brain.

I found COUNTLESS studies supporting the idea that the brain itself is unisex- there is very little, if any, difference between “male” and “female” brains, with one exception. I’m by no means a neuroscientist but this is what I understood from this particular article: there’s this tiny part of the hypothalamus (a small part of the brain) that has neutrons in it, and the number of neutrons varies. HOWEVER, when the brains of cis men and women and trans men and women (who had not taken hormones for years prior to the time of death) were studied, it was found that the cis men and trans men had almost identical average neutron counts, and the cis women and trans women had almost identical average neutron counts. So if you’re DMAB but realize at some point that you’re a trans woman, as far as your brain is concerned, you ARE a woman! The same goes for DFAB trans men (intersex/nonbinary individuals weren’t studied, unfortunately).

TLDR; Your brain doesn’t care what you were “born as”, only what you really are!

I’m currently reading a fantastic book that goes through and debunks old studies that “find evidence” to support gender roles. SPOILER ALERT: they were all poorly done studies and their evidence is unsupported bullshit.

a pretty good read and a good source 

@cutiequeercris

NEUROSCIENCE DEBUNKING GENDER ESSENTIALIST SHIT YESSS

Yay for science finally supporting it. I’ve believed this for years.

mm-hmm!

Super important for all of the reasons stated here, but also because it is further proof that the “Extreme Male Brain” theory of autism is BS.

There is no such thing as a male brain.

Autism is not a thing that only men can have.

Women are not “less autistic” because they’re starting from more “female” brains.

The fact that I still see this being treated as fact in modern psychology makes me want to scream at some researchers.

Or at the very least is giving me the determination to finish my Master’s so that I can scream at them in my dissertation…

Science finally supports that we are all born as blank slates and gender is merely a construct

psych2go:

khylee:

Psychology is a beautiful thing.

Interesting!