Originally Posted By: Faithful1
Originally Posted By: helenwheels
Except science shows that it is a physical condition. Trangenders have both different gene sequences in the NR3C4 and CYP17, and different brain structure in the Stria terminalis


For transgenders it's not all that cut and dry. Behavior can change the brain due to its neuroplasticity. Learning creates new neural pathways, so what you wrote about could be an effect and not necessarily a cause. As the old dictum says, "correlation does not necessarily imply causation."

I'm not nearly as intelligent as Faithful1. But it sounds a lot like, "What came first, the chicken or the egg?"

My opinion? People can talk themselves into believing whatever they want to fight off the self-hatred. So Faithful1's post makes a lot of sense to me.


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