What We Know About Gender Identity According to Science

Gender identity is complicated, but how it works in the brain is even more so.

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Are the Brains of Transgender People Different from Those of Cisgender People?
https://www.the-scientist.com/....?articles.view/artic
“For now, as is the case for many aspects of human experience, the neural mechanisms underlying gender remain largely mysterious.”

Nature, Nurture, And Our Evolving Debates About Gender
https://www.npr.org/2017/10/09..../556116385/nature-nu
“For some two decades, Eliot has pondered and researched the origins of gender differences between boys and girls. She says she didn't start by looking at boys' brains and girls' brains. She started with an insight about all brains.”

Is There Something Unique about the Transgender Brain?
https://www.scientificamerican.....com/article/is-ther
“Some children insist, from the moment they can speak, that they are not the gender indicated by their biological sex. So where does this knowledge reside?”

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