Expansive new study points to distinct brain networks linked to sex and gender

All my homies hate trans-medicalism, this will inevitably lead to a "cure" or something bullshit like that, we don't need medical validation in the first place

As long as it isn't a requirement for legal or medical procedures and is only used as a diagnostic tool to better understand oneself, it shouldn't be too problematic, I think. If it's used to diagnose someone without their consent is a different story, and I would hate to see medical science advancements used to perpetuate abuse rather than improve our lives.

Or insurance requirement for trans people accessing healthcare.

I'm hoping private healthcare and health insurance will be a thing of the past by the time your concerns become a reality, but that's an extremely valid concern nonetheless.

Agreed, also, focusing on the differences becomes divisive at some point. The truth is, women and men think extremely similarly, as we are all human and humans think alike. But we ignore the greater similarities to instead push for tiny divisions. While it's great to provide validation, neuroplasticity means that a "girl" brain can become a "boy" brain and vice versa through someone's lifetime. Gender is also not a strict binary anyway, so how it's determined who's a girl and who is a boy and who's agender or multigender - like it's so much more complicated than a study like this.

If we assume that it's useful as a diagnostic tool (very iffy if there), that's not a bad thing.

There are people who regret transitioning and currently there's no way to reliably tell which trans kids are actually trans and which have been manipulated or are just in a phase, thus denying early intervention for many. If it could be reasonably reliably tested for, that's great.

The insurance part is 100% an American issue. Civilized societies have socialized healthcare.

They give a shit about the "science" they think supports their point. Even if it's something like phrenology.

Yeah, but we can distinguish between neurological components that are conditioned on biology outside the brain like chromosomes and hormones (what the article calls “sex”), components that are conditioned on learning (“cultural constructs”), and components that are conditioned on neither (what the article, apart from the quoted sentence, calls “gender”).

By “biological” I mean the neurological component that correlates with biological sex, and by “neurological” I mean the component that’s purely neurological and doesn’t correlate with anything outside the brain.