does this mean that questioning people could simply get a brain scan to show weather they're trans or not? rather than going through months of internal struggles? or are the differences too subtle and varied to tell someone a specific yes or no as to if they're trans?
Even if they are trans or not based on that, one still will face internal battles I'm sure. I know I still do. maybe it could help tho. who knows. it's an interesting idea :)
I honestly think so, because if you don’t have GD (aka a different gendered brain than the one you were assigned at birth) and you transitioned, you would then get GD
I look forward to the day when a routine test or two could help someone like me. I struggled for the longest time, trying to accept my diagnosis of gender dysphoria. My personality type relies more on facts and evidence than feelings. While there was a ton of "evidence" throughout my life, eventually, I had to learn to trust my feelings, too. A simple, routine medical test of some type would, I think, really help those who trust their intellects over their feelings.
@@hospitalsgivingpatientsdan8894 The OG commenter didn't mean that kind of presentation. They meant the video, the presentation that was read in the video.
I'm a transguy, and I would not wish this upon anyone. Nearly killed myself many times. Been hospitalized. I wanted to die so badly but, now my transition saved me. I'm getting surgery soon, living life how I was supposed to be and still shutting myself off from the world but I'm at least a bit happier and a lot happier.
What would have happened? nothing really, you dont think there were Trans -Genders then? thats about the same time Liberals were really taking hold and creating imaginary crisis's and exploiting issues like this and creating Victims of Society and getting in everyone's face. If they had Research to prove it then , things would have been a lot better and by now you wouldn't have any problems unless you make unreasonable demands.
have you all noticed that most intellectuals find it easier to be more accepting of people of different walks of life compared to people who are.... "not the brightest light bulb in the room" ...👀👀👀👀👀
+Savion Doup Yeah, because we are rational people who can objectively look at evidence and research and be swayed by it in one direction or the other. I mean if some one came at me with a rational argument, and backed up what they were saying with facts, evidence, and logic I would change my stance. I don't want to be willfully ignorant, and I enjoy learning and knowledge which has changed my opinions, views, and outlook on many things in life. I'm a much better person for it.
I think you should say open minded people are more accepting of people from all different walks of life because I think you would be affecting alot of people.
+Alfred Lindsey i mean that too....but what I'm saying is that people that have higher iqs and more worldly seem to be more accepting than people that have lower iqs and are.... LOCAL... that's where I'm getting at....I'm not saying it's a definite I'm saying that it's a consistent ...
+SHtheInsider I don't know to be honest.... I'm just making an observation of what I've seen and being Trans myself..... it could be the fact that they actually research .... instead of just going with a negative connotation.... or maybe those worldly or higher iq people have the brain capacity to accept more seeming they know more.... who knows
Research has shown that the majority of children (who have not yet reached puberty) who report Gender Dysphoria will not carry the Dysphoria into adolescents. However, for those who do experience it in adolescence will most likely continue to deal with it into adulthood
Myles Schutte You know what’s also great: a change of clothes and pronouns doesn’t equal permanent transition. If these kids decide they’re cis in adolescence, they can go off blockers and express themselves how they please.
Mohamed S. It’s precisely the opposite. Forcing someone to go through an already stressful physical process when their entire psychology is inherently against it is abuse.
I am raising a grand children who as always thought she was a boy even at three she asked me why did God give her a girl's body in a boys brain...she wants to come out at 13 but is struggling...how do I help her through this time
You're an amazing grandparent for asking this and I seggest you using male pronouns for him and call him whatever name he wants to be called, and support him no matter what..
You're genderless and should be stripped of your identity and name. Posing as a false gender while not having one should be considered a crime. You're nothing but a CRIMINAL under a humble disguise.
The only sad thing about this video is the fact it will be decades old accepted science and everyone who leaves a hateful message will go down in history as ignorant.
I worked with a pre op trans person a few years back. He was initially employed as female and that was how everyone was first introduced to him as. Everyone, no matter if they knew he was pre op trans or not, identified him as male on a sub conscience level. There was just a sense about him that you got that was masculine. And it wasn't that he dressed butch or anything like that. A few months later he announced that he was going to start hormone treatment for his gender op and would be identifying as male going forward. So it really doesn't just come down to a personal internal choice of the individual - it is just who they are.
@@frozeneternity93 Lawl ya, I'm sure just EVERYONE was SOOOO fascinated by this person they just couldn't stop talking about them 😂 This is your silly little fantasy, nothing more.
InMaTeofDeath Yep it sure has. Even on a scientific video saying it's not in us being deluded. still people cant get there head to let people be who they are. I wonder what issues the haters have themselves that other people that don'd effect them must be wrong. Fucked up isn't it? xxx
InMaTeofDeath Hey, when I was a child I wanted to be a dolphin, would you allow me to have surgery to become one? or would you just say that it was a stage I was going through? Serious question, would like an answer.
Do you still want to be now? If so and you truly feel deep down you need to be the dolphin you are and being human is depressing you more and more each day. then Yes you should be what you want to be. I know it's hard to get your head round. but being trans is a complex thing, even for us. al we ask is to be aloud to live our lives happy. it doesn't effect the Cisgender if they just let us be.
People fear what's different when it doesn't matter if some people are different. It doesn't change anything about the ones that fear it. Just let everyone live their own lives and get on with yours.
At last, we are letting the world know the truth behind being transgender. Exposure = acceptance. Thank you guys! You're making the world a better, safer place for people like me to live in.
Great video, I've tried to research this myself but couldn't find anything meaningful, just biggots or lgbtq activists screaming at eachother, obviously I intuitively agreed with the lgbtq activists but its nice to be able to quote a study now
Oh my goodness, the comment section here is horrible and it makes me sad. Listen up trans* folk. You're important, your feelings are valid, your identity is real. I love you all a ton. To the shit posters: please either find compassion in your heart or get lost.
EllaABo I love you all too Ignore the ignorance Take care of yourselves, okay? Also transphobic people just don't understand. They really don't. Ignore them. And love yourself for the beautiful person you are.
Yes they can. But have you ever heard them causing someone to end up killing themselves? Like I understand your point. But it isn't quite on the same level....
I am a transgender woman, and I know most o people think I am crazy, I am not, I have awareness of my transgender conditions since I am 6 years old, however recently I had a dramatic discovery with my doctor, and my endocrinologist after a genetic and hormonal study, they found out that according with the imaging and the chromosomic image I have a condition called ovotestis OTSD46XX a condition that makes my body naturally to produce both male and female hormones, making my body naturally intersexed (not male or female). Since I found that I have now an actual medical condition to prove my ambiguity, I still face rejecetion from my family and other people, but what can I do haters will always hate. The thing is I am happily enjoying my life and being my self.
Eliana Golberstein stay strong, people find gender dysphoria so confusing, and intersex people like you are the living proof that nature doesn't make everyone strictly the gender they look like at birth. Keep living your life :)
Eliana Golberstein Your body is not intersected genetically just because it produces make and female hormones. You are either genetically male or genetically female. Also, EVERYONE'S body produces both male and female hormones, and not everyone is "intersexed." Maybe your body produces more of the opposite sex's hormone, but everyone has both in their bodies.
뿡뿡! ^__^ She never claimed to have Kleinfelter's. OTSD46XX merely means she has ovotestis as well as a 46XX karyotype. It's meant to distinguish between other karyotypes in people with ovotestis.
Now I know why I felt that way, in the 50's - 60's you did not talk about it I came to turns with being M2F when I was in my early 40's I am 61 now. It was a hard road to follow thanks Dnews
Personnel question, hope you dont mind me asking: If you are choosing to have a sex change surgery, Would you consider doing the brain scan before the surgery?
@@jbarb9987 question, why would she? If she knows she really want to change her sex, and knows that she’s for sure a woman. Why would she need it? It’s also a huge waste of money for something she already knows.
@@omnisexualidiot3750 i guess it depends on if she knows for sure. People have regrets after surgery, and im sure allot them for sure believed that their gender was different from their sex before the surgery regret. I have seen a few videos of people wanting their sex back after surgery. I see no reason to not do it; its a precaution and it if turns out that the brain is the same gender as the sex, its cheaper than surgery to know that and seek psychological treatment.
We often over look the fact that we the transgender folk have dealt with our issues for a vary long time. But when we come out to family and friends, they often see it as a choice that was made one Friday morning. For them its suddenly there. It just pops up, like yesterday it was not here and now today it is. This leads them to feel like its a sudden choice that we made one Friday morning. Thus we must be confused. When in actuality, the reason it just came out is usually because we just can not hide it any longer. We have to be sure to express that we have been dealing with these things for a vary long time. We have just been hiding it deep down. Most of us hide it vary well. Keeping it hidden for fear of how they would except it. They may never fully appreciate how painful and depressing it is to be the wrong sex. That is when your brain and sole do match the body.
I think as a 16 year old getting our heads around trans people will be the struggle of our generation we know gay people are perfectly normal but a lot of my friends can't get their heads around trans people I admit sometimes I don't understand it but this helps
There is no reason to hate something you don't understand. i'm not sure why people think that's productive or okay. Why are you watching Discovery News if you don't want to learn?
To the negative posters: The hosts asked you to abide by Wheaton's Law (Don't be a dick!), but many of you ignored that request. If you don't have anything positive and constructive to say OR have an honest question... you shouldn't be posting on a science channel.
What the researchers didn't take in account (or at least you didn't mention it) that does brain wiring differences could be caused by behavioral differences. For example a transgender female (believing she is a man) would tend to behave more like a man than a woman as a way to satisfy her desires. Due the brain's plasticity characteristics, this could explain the differences in brain wiring, and as a conclusion, those differences wouldn't be the cause of gender dysphoria but rather a consequence.
and here I am stuck in the middle born intersex stuck as in i was born both told to be male but always felt female hey even when I started puberty i was forced to conform to male normality who cares I had a menstrual cycle give me puberty blockers that fixed everything just stop my physical growth being transgender either by being born intersex or by feeling it in your heart it is no different. I found out that people who argue these facts cannot be argued with because they dont care . II cannot count how many times I have stood in front of some who stared me straight in the eye and said you cannot be born intersex the same as being transgender scientifically proven facts intersex and transgender are real just because your not means nothing at all just smile at them and walk away. i'm a girl I was born a girl with some male anatomy so they forced me to be a boy but I'm not a boy so i'm transgender I'm a women now the same as many of my transgender sisters i'm still intersex until I get a very expensive surgery done but I still grew up felling horrible about who I am because of how I was born because of a stigma forced on me from birth and oh look at that now everyone is making remarks about the high rate of suicide in the transgender community after treating us like less than human for most of if not all of our life's. I wonder why we feel so miserable it cannot be that we are socially unaccepted for who we are. or the extremely high % of rape and murders in our community . but yeah just all of you small minded bigots stay in your safe bubble and through stones and continue with the hate you spread . your the reason we have such high rates of suicide in the transgender community.
I hope you find who you feel like, but your intersex should NEVER be considered with people already born with a full gender. Intersex is different from people who just want to be whatever they want.
The problem is not society accepting who you want to be, it's you, you need to accept who you are. the big takeaway is that some point in life maybe in highschool, you accept yourself and what you were born with, you work with what you got, but people who transition don't accept themselves before they transition, they don't learn. I don't know what percentage of the transgender society is religious, but I wouldn't be surprised if next to none were, because it teaches you to be grateful of yourself, what *god* gave you. Being transgender is being ungrateful.
@@jackcolson4745 god is a proverbial nightlight for the weak minded. believe what you want but remember religion causes nothing but violence. History proves that. . I accept who I am it is religious bigots that should mind their own business and stop messing with peoples lives
"The heterosexual control"...Sexuality and gender identity are two entirely DIFFERENT things. I hope Julia just misspoke and intended to say cisgender control.
By far one of the best videos I've seen on trans issues and perhaps the only one on trans brains. Excellent work. (One trans person's stamp of approval.)
Believe it or not. (Ignore my username indicating a certain gender) I am a transgender woman and I remember telling my family and coming out online so to speak about who I am as a person. My family was practically on the verge of disowning me. Sisters thought I was just attention seeking and that im just confused....after a while I could see i was hurting my family so I decided to just ''pretend'' to be a man , be their ''son'' in the process of losing my self identity. It feels horrible to know that your family hates you just because you do not identify as a gender they see you as. My parents are being selfish....I understand that they had dreams about me having a ''normal'' family and hopes about my future. It is like I have failed them.... so two yrs on. I still feel the same, trapped, scared and lonely. I dont want to be homeless!! people say its easy , dont let anyone tell you who you should or shouldn't be...umm but if its going to leave me homeless...im just going to give in untill I actually have employment and save up to move out 22 yrs old here. Thank you for this video, it helps to make me feel more normalised. It means a lot
The language is why you are all wrong. Assigned? The doctor doesnt determine a gender.... DNA does. You fucks have bumped your heads and eaten far tooo many paint chips.
You're correct, the DNA does. 30+ chromosomes. The doctor can only assign gender based on the visual result of one of them, the one you learned in high school. The doc has a 1 in 150 chance of being right.
I've always felt like a male and wanted to be a male, but when I gave up on that, it was just being completely ignored. Today, now that I understand the idea of being transgender, I am more accepting of myself. But the idea that I was convinced that I was really a girl because I wanted to be normal, accepted, and understood really makes it hard to believe, and makes me worry that I am convinced I am something I'm not, even though I've pretty much always thought, believed, and wished I was someone, and still do. Especially after this video. What if I'm just subconsciously seeking attention? Am I the only one like this? Can someone please help?
DNews has a video talking about Brain differences, but then has another rejecting the conclusions of a study that didn't agree with their social values. That's inconsistent.
***** Speaking of Peer review, This expert who has had over 125 peer reviewed papers says that transgender Surgery Isn't the Solution cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/johns-hopkins-psychiatrist-transgender-mental-disorder-sex-change
Yes, but what about the fact that many children (I've heard 70-80%) who express gender dysphoria actually grow out of it and do live their adult lives as the gender they were assigned as? This issue troubles me, because I grew up acting more like a boy and dressing more like a boy than like a girl. I even related to other boys better than girls, didn't understand girls, and deeply longed for a way to change myself into a boy. Now I'm a grown woman and shun the notion that I am in any way a man. What if these young ftms out there, going through transition to become male, would have just grown out of it in a few years? Also is it not true that hormones affect the mind? So would not a girl who feels more like a boy naturally develop into a woman as her body changes and releases more estrogen? People say that trans men probably were exposed to more testosterone when they were in their mother's womb and that is why their bodies are female but the brains more male. Yet if they were to keep living in their bodies without transitioning, would not the estrogen produced during adolescence and onward offset the testosterone of their youth? I'm not saying that they would become super girly girl later on. I still hate shopping and wearing makeup and hardly dress up. But I still am a woman.
I get what your saying.... but I think that your more queer / gender non conforming than specifically trans.... being trans you would have felt more of a hatred for your genetic body than a childish dislike..... your mind wouldn't change in adult hood even after estrogen sets in..... yes estrogen and testosterone are powerful hormones that help change signal sent to the brain.....their more like a high than MIND CONTROL... like being high on feminity or masculinity... it doesn't change your ENTIRE thought process... Just your initial instincts.... and this is coming from someone who is trans.
If the kids socially transition at a young age then there's nothing that can't be reversed so they can grow out of it without any harm done and go back to being the gender the were assigned. But if the child continues to feel that way then it's a good they started early. Once they reach 16 when they can't start taking hormones they're going to be certain that's who they are, in fact the studies usually are only for very young children that occasionally say something about wanting to be a boy not persistent and consistent male behaviour from birth. And believe me, puberty and oestrogen was the worst thing that happened to me, I was already hating my body at 6 years old but at 15 I wanted to die everyday because I was made to go through the wrong puberty. The gender experts know the children that will grow out of it and which won't, it's just important to get your child help while they're young in case they don't grow out of it because going through the wrong puberty is hell
+Samantha Grover That's why you don't just get hormones that easily if you just say you're trans, first thing that happens is some rigorous testing by psychiatrists before they allow that step...
This is very well put together and informative but the large amount of ignorant comments that just choose to cherry pick the information they are willing to listen to so they don't have to challenge anything they previously believed as true make me wanna cry :/ If you don't like new ideas and accepting new proven concepts why are you watching a science show?
***** There is more proof for it to be a real thing than not, so... shouldn't it be considered the most likely thing until it can be proven wrong? You know, just like evolution...?
***** Yeah, I worded my sentence badly. I know, how it works. I just wanted to recognize that it would be currently the most likely theory, with little credibility due lack of data. Most likely would mean that it needs to be proven wrong or given a more likely theory to make it crumble. ^^
Good. I just want to point out that. Transgender people are really small minority, so expansive studies might be hard to combine in the common concept of the word. I do not know the % amount of transgender people out of total population, but I assume it is easily below 5%. That in mind smaller group of people getting studied should matter a bit more as it would be larger portion of the total. I totally agree though that there is way few studies to make basis for STRONG scientific evidence.
No it's not, it's letting the kids be themselves and helps them grow up being who they really are on the inside. Think of it as a cage. The transgender person is in a cage (their gender assigned body) and they're a bird and can't get out. So point being kids who haven't hit puberty yet is okay because it lets their cage be unlocked to fly and be free and happy with themselves. Sorry if you didn't understand any of that, it was the only way I could think of explaining it. Have a good day/night/evening/afternoon :D
I think there is definitely some bias within the studies done especially the studies done with kids responses. Brain structure is important and hormones influence how the brain is formed. We don’t know everything about the brain and how it works, it’s complicated
I love how the video provides scientific studies justifying the existence of trans people on a neurological level, yet there are still people in the comments trying to delegitimize trans people. We exist whether you like it or not, we always have, it is not unnatural, and science itself backs that up.
The Atheist Bear the journal of neurology was created by over 200 accqiuted scientists in the neurology field. It's almost like reality has a leftist bias. The real mental illness here is your cognitive dissonance
movingonandup773 that's not bullying, it's not even teasing. Bullying is consistent. Teasing happens once. And he was asking a question.... And to answer his question, he may have lazy eye. I have very minor lazy eye, but my friend had even worse than this guy. It's just where your pupils are spaced unevenly or they drift off
nobody "throws" it in your face, trans people have been murdered just for being trans and wanting the same rights as cisgender people isn't pushing the trans agenda. we just want to be viewed like everyone else, we do not want special treatment.
*I hope you're aware that your reality does not count as "reality".* We're aware that you don't live in the same reality as everyone else. It's okay, Johnnie. You'll catch up, eventually.
It would be great to hear the parents point of view who are dealing with transgender kids. How do they adapt? How do they handle keeping from distressing the kid?
I hope nobody thrashes you for your point. It's an extremely good point. When I came out to my mum she believed I was selfish and didn't think how she would feel. I wasn't able to stand up for myself (because I was crying) but believe you me I thought how they would struggle and be very troubled by this. To answer your question some parents try to avoid the topic for the first year or so. But slowly try to build up some kind of understanding (what reasonable parents would do) some will buy books to help them understand and such and such It's just takes time and research for a parent or family member to understand. A very good question
I am not transgender. I am a man and transexual. My gender was always male and I went through a lot of pain and battle to change my secondary sex characteristics. I don't identify as male, or transgender I AM male.
You know, I appreciate the scientific information, I guess it is helpful to many people who have issues with transgenders. But the problem is not with transgenders, the problem is with people who have the nerve to comment on others lives, when they should work hard on getting a life of their own. And then, maybe those who ARE, living their lives, can live them without obstruction.
I really hate this transgender stuff. To be clear, I don't hate transgender people, I hate the idea of it. I'm not trying to be insulting to anyone who is transgender or supports them with this arguement. But if someone had an eating disorder, what would a doctor do? They wouldn't encourage them to stop eating and get them onto diet plans and such. But that is exactly what happens with transgender people most of the time. "I feel fat so I shouldnt eat." "You're right! Lets get you on a diet, eat these pills, you don't have to eat if you dont want to! Do what ever makes you comfortable!" "I feel like I was born a female instead of a male." "Ok then! Let's get you some surgery and maybe some of these pills! Just do what ever makes you feel comfortable!". You see what I'm saying?
Sprinkle Blitz the issue with that argument, is that you can live a sustained, long and happy life with SRT and your body continues to function properly. With an eating disorder deteriorates your body till it eventually stops working altogether. It's not sustainable, and your life shortens drastically(months). Even if you are allowed not to eat your still unhappy and unsatisfied with the image that you see in the mirror. With SRT almost all patients are happy and satisfied with their treatment and move on to a maintenance type procedures. TL:DR - an eating disorder has detrimental effects on a persons mind and body. Especially if they are allowed to stop eating where as SRT improves quality of life for the person.
so you take two seperate psychological topics and compare the treating of them the same when they are not. to show what i mean lets take anirexia and autism, you wouldn't treat autism the same way you treat anirexia. also anirexia is something that is purely external (learnt, normally though outside influrances and behavour) unlike being transgender which is something from birth. another example would be anxity and being transgender, you can't treat them both the same way. before comparing psychological states together know the diffences between them first.
the difference is that an eating disorder is learned and curable. when you're transgender, it's something you are biologically and psychologically born with. it isn't "curable" it is treated with the right surgery and hormones for that person to feel comfortable in their body. same with anorexia patients, they get therapy and help to make them feel comfortable in their own body too.
A transgender person doesn't feel right with having a penis or having a vagina and an eating disorder is where you are mentally and physically ill I'm sorry but I just don't agree
Thanks guys for doing this video. I'm not transgender but I am gay, and I knew that by the time I was in kindergarten. Thanks for emphasizing that sexuality is not a choice! I'm here to tell you that, after many years of trying to fit into the "straight" mold, I finally embraced who I really am and am a much better person for it. Those who believe otherwise, because of their upbringing, the church, or other reason, are just plain wrong. Thankfully this country seems to be moving in the right direction in this regard, partly because of videos like this one. Thanks again-- love you guys!
how are you doing now? its been six years since this comment was posted so, how would answer this question now? do you have an answer? (im transgender too, it just feels interesting to see how much you've grown in 6 years)
You're either XX or XY. You can say you're not, but it doesn't change your biology. That being said, I don't have anything against transgender people or want to oppress them. But if my brain tells me that I'm a cat, it doesn't mean that I'm a cat.
I think it's really great that scientists are finding this evidence. Trans people already know that they are not making a choice, but science helps the skeptics understand.
Good presentation and summary but unfortunately the samples presented here are extremely small to be able to extrapolate to the larger population of all people who are transgender. More study needs to be done on a wider basis with bigger groups and verified with multiple studies.
About to watch the video and I already dont trust them with the approach of the intro, I'll go for a more reliable source to make my judgement, maybe some studies by reputable scientists.
Going to find reputable scientists is a good choice. I believe if you want to make a judgement on Transgenders you need to absolutely need to balance up the science, the psychology from good reliable sources. I'm transgender and some may find it shocking that I do not mind if someone is maybe against Transgenders. As long as I know they've researched it and made a good judgement it's fine by me. Obviously it would be more favourable if everyone was able to understand us but you know it's fine if some don't.
young kids don't normally even ponder such gender questions by themselves. seeds have been sown on these minds to cause them to ask the question 'am I a boy or a girl'? it is more like social engineering rather than ontological enlightenment best answer: pull your pants down, case closed
I first figured out what I was in the 5th grade noticing that I was very different from all of the other kids around me, sometimes they would pick on me for it. There were a select few who would embrace me for who I was, born a male but on the inside I knew that I was a transformer
As a transgender girl, who also loves STEM, this was so charming to watch, it helps me understand myself better. However, from an impersonal scientific perspective, would the brain scans of a masculine cis girl be significantly different from one of a transboy? And vice versa? I like this subject but I would love to find more sources about this.
its not about a feeling. gender dysphoria is a recognized diagnosis for the incongruence that transgender individuals experience! it is recognized by many organizations such as the American Psychological Association , the American Medical Association, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Human Rights Campaign, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Osteopathic Pediatricians, the United Nations, and the United Kingdom’s National Health Service!
@@lemonjuic3r A recognized diagnosis for a mental illness that is, yes. It is absolutely about a feeling. That feeling is caused by basically a bug in your brain (hence why it's a mental illness). In basically all the cases ever (except this one, for *some* reason), whenever you encounter a bug, you generally try to get rid of it or work around it somehow, but here for some inane reason, people seem to have decided that the bug is indeed in fact a feature instead! And since it's a feature, we need to change the whole hardware and software to accommodate this wonderful bug and celebrate whatever _amazing people_ decide to host it in themselves instead of getting rid of it. Oh how stunning and brave they all are!
@@Karsh. see that’s where your understanding falls short. gender dysphoria as a diagnosis is known as the discomfort that comes from experiencing gender incongruence. gender incongruence: the state of being transgender is NOT qualified as a mental illness. you say that when people have these “bugs” relating to mental illnesses they treat them, correct? some of these treatments could be therapy, medication, etc. do you not understand that the treatment for gender dysphoria is gender affirming care? nothing has been proven to get rid of gender incongruence. people with gender incongruence either live with dysphoria or treat it, there’s no in between. deepen your understanding rather than fearing from progression.
@@lemonjuic3r I've deepened my understanding enough. It used to be qualified as mental illness until it became dangerous to the financial and reputational stability of those institutions, hence they bended their knees to the angry mob and you got what you wanted. But changing the 'official' statement of some institutions won't actually change the reality. Your 'gender affirming care' is exactly what I mentioned - "welp, just gotta live with the bug forever I guess, bah, it's a feature in fact - I'm *proud* of it!" In fact, the more I think about it, the more it seems to me like the better analogy would've been a virus, considering that there are many of you who then love to preach to everyone you possibly can about your pride and the greatness of your illness and you want to recruit as many people as possible into your bubble of 'virus worship' or sometimes you'd rather just 'infect' them with it yourself, if possible. It truly is baffling how there are people who'd want somebody with whom to suffer in their misery so much that they'd basically willingly infect them with things that they themselves often acknowledge to be 'ruining their lives' and such. After all, why would it be such a terrible alternative to just "live with it" if you didn't know that it's not nice to have it?
Sadly, this is inconclusive and I'm afraid it will always be. Behavior can alter genes, environment and experience alter genes through epigenetics . Genetics alter behavior and experience. A big complex feedback loop. Science is going to have to take a back seat on this one.
This doesn't explain the 50% suicide rate. None of these studies conducted any tests on children with the same machine as tested on adults. If treatment of something results to the equivilant of flipping a coin whereas Heads you die, Tails you live - It would not be considered treatment at all. These children need help not forced injections into their body when they arent even old enough to consent, we restrict children from doing everything else with their bodies except for this. Why?
Richard Bigger I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about at the start (high suicide rate caused by bigots like you) and the rest... you're just an idiot
***** 1) yes you are 2) transitioning IS helping them. It's the only thing that helps most of them. 3) it's important for kids too, maybe evn moreso. Attitudes like yours ARE one of the major reasons suicide rates are so high.
***** I knew you had no fucking clue what you were talking about, that reinforces it. No surgery or anything else is done until they're adults. Kids identified as trans will often go on hormone blockers when they're older to delay puberty a few years and then make the final decision which puberty to go through. Because being forced to go through default puberty can be hard on them, emotionally and it makes transitioning harder as they later have undo what puberty did and g through puberty again with new hormones.
***** more ignorance. they're not on blockers when they're 5 it's closer to puberty. And by then they can understand what puberty and the drugs are. A 5 year old would just live as the other gender and there's nothing wrong with that.
In that case you need to learn a lot more. Lets for example look at tribes that have been isolated from rest of the world, in all of those tribes there are men and women. If gender would be social construct, young kids would start to play with "wrong" kind of toys and play "wrong" kind of plays/games, and only once they have been repeadetly told what they are and what they are supposed to like they understand it. But in reality, boys do boyish stuff and girls girlish stuff, and it all comes automatically.
So you know I don't mean to be rude, but they were almost saying it is a mental illness. They were literally saying it was a brain condition. Just saying...
We could say introversion is a brain condition, or being bilingual is a brain condition. Brains are incredibly diverse, and what seems to define "mental illness" or "disorder" is the fact that the wiring highly interferes with daily life--but two factors of that are internal interference (stemming from the condition itself) and societal interference (such as discrimination for being different). Keep in mind that homosexuality used to be considered a disorder in the DSM, but now it's more commonly considered a natural variation, and societal interference has definitely decreased. Feeling like an actual human instead of a disorder sure helps decrease incidence of depression, anxiety and the like. A similar thing is occurring with Autism Spectrum Disorder, as people are recognizing that many issues autistic people face are from society, and from co-existing health conditions that can occur as a result of having sensitive brains and bodies along with the added stress of navigating an unfriendly world.
When you go to the trouble of explaining what cisgender means, it is weird that you then go on to refer to cisgender people as 'male' and 'female.' Trans people are also male and female, so this makes no sense whatsoever. In future videos like this, please be consistent.
Your comment i find quite funny and doesn't make sense lol cisgender means your brain gender matches your body sex and transgender, your braingender doesn't match your body sex. People you are the only ones here with a learning disability. Do your education so we don't have anymore than 50% of trans deaths. Be kind when you see trans ppl there is absolutely nothing hard to believe about trans ppl.
happyhappy joyjoy Gender is not interchangeable with sex. They are different. Sex is purely physical, whilst gender is psychological and also not real. You can't take a blood sample and tell someone's gender, only their sex. Also, are really saying that sociology and psychology aren't real sciences? That's pretty ignorant.
For all you who hate transgender people and or the concept of people being transgender, ask yourself how does this directly affect you? Why do you have a fervent desire to make it known that you disapprove of these individuals living their life the way they feel? If your a man and your happy about it, continue to be that man, if your a woman and your happy about it, continue to be a woman. There should not have to be ANY justification whether it is scientific or not for anyone to be transgender, if that is how one feels then so be it. Anyone who hates this concept has no life, it's clearly evident by the amount of attention they have to spare to worry about what sex or gender someone is who they have no connection to in their own life. If it matters so much that someone is biologically born of a certain sex, no one is stopping you from meeting said person and having a life with them, so go do that and move on. This discussion is fucking childish.
i want to delete my channel plz Obviously you are easily offended too because you are offended by people just being who they want to be (in this case transgenders being transgender)
Very interesting indeed... so, after all, and contary to gender-feminism, gender is not a social construct, it is wired deep down in our brain! So we should raise our kids without asking ourselves too much questions, about their gender and the impact of our education on them, as they will find themselves who they really are! I find it very reassuring indeed. Let's live and let live!!!
I hate how they say "assigned" at birth as if a doctor was just like "hmm let's call this one a girl, because we already assigned a lot of boys today, we will make this a girl".
In another Dnews video they said men and women are the same physiologically. So if gender is a social construct then how can transgender people have different brains from birth? The study showed that the microstructures in the brain take a middle position for transgender people, then how does that explain the 50 genders to choose from on Facebook?
Gender stereotypes are a construct of society, and gender is a spectrum that's why Facebook have so many options for the people that don't fit strictly into the male and female binary
Personally, and I believe the transmed community would agree, that those 50 Facebook genders are bullcrap, those are just sjw terms that dont really make scientific sense. Also, how old was the video saying the brains were the same? Does it take into account new research? The micro structures?
@@ryanthomas9306 So would a tomboy be more female or less? Does our primary or secondary sexual characteristics determine what we desire, want, or wear? Is there a biological proof the blue is a male color and female is pink?
This channel strives to be a science channel. However what people do not like is having weak scientific links or theories and mixing that with their own political agenda. I do not want to be bombarded constantly gender identity, while that is not that scientifically really. I do respect all people, but I did not come to this channel for that crap.
Must. Not. Look. At. Comments.
Rory Oliver I thought I was on 4chan for a second
A trick watch the video then come back for comments
must not look at opposing views
WAIT, this ISN'T 4chan?!
Rory G must.not.comment.back
Oh no welp I tried
does this mean that questioning people could simply get a brain scan to show weather they're trans or not? rather than going through months of internal struggles? or are the differences too subtle and varied to tell someone a specific yes or no as to if they're trans?
Even if they are trans or not based on that, one still will face internal battles I'm sure. I know I still do. maybe it could help tho. who knows. it's an interesting idea :)
I honestly think so, because if you don’t have GD (aka a different gendered brain than the one you were assigned at birth) and you transitioned, you would then get GD
I look forward to the day when a routine test or two could help someone like me. I struggled for the longest time, trying to accept my diagnosis of gender dysphoria. My personality type relies more on facts and evidence than feelings. While there was a ton of "evidence" throughout my life, eventually, I had to learn to trust my feelings, too. A simple, routine medical test of some type would, I think, really help those who trust their intellects over their feelings.
Hill Banx So is being religious.
Owly I’m pretty sure scientists are working on that
Am i the only one who thinks that guy looks like Steve from American dad?
Lol. I agree
he looks more like he has zika
omg you're right
omg yess
suckmaballz25 he dose omg lmao
kinda sad how more people are talking about the guy’s looks and not paying attention to the presentation.
what presentation?
@@happyhour4670 Exactly. :/
@@Meeshilin_Man hm? I didnt know there was a presentation, either.
Masculinity or femininity presentation is not male and female
@@hospitalsgivingpatientsdan8894 The OG commenter didn't mean that kind of presentation. They meant the video, the presentation that was read in the video.
I'm a transguy, and I would not wish this upon anyone. Nearly killed myself many times. Been hospitalized. I wanted to die so badly but, now my transition saved me. I'm getting surgery soon, living life how I was supposed to be and still shutting myself off from the world but I'm at least a bit happier and a lot happier.
Honestly congrats. I'm so happy for you. My transition saved my life as well
@weed soup just about🙏
How's it going? I hope you're doing well. That's awesome you were able to transition
THEN YOUR A MASCULINISED WOMAN. MALE IS BIOLOGICAL TERM YOU CANNOT FEEL MALE. A WOMAN CAN FEEL MASCULINE
@@lizzyrose6494you cannot change chromosomes and reproductive organs only masculinise a woman
I wish this research was around 40 years ago.
Wouldn't have done anything I guess. If it's so hard and hateful nowadays, what would've happened 40 years ago? D:
What would have happened? nothing really, you dont think there were Trans -Genders then? thats about the same time Liberals were really taking hold and creating imaginary crisis's and exploiting issues like this and creating Victims of Society and getting in everyone's face. If they had Research to prove it then , things would have been a lot better and by now you wouldn't have any problems unless you make unreasonable demands.
James Berlo Just take some time and listen to yourself.
mylittleblackenedparadise I don't know about others but for me it would have done a world of good.
Anthony Rizzo Yeah, I agree. But I think it would've been hard as well :/
Julian and Julia would be a good indie band name
wowcat *gets ukulele*
wowcat from the 60s, with now yellowed LP covers
wowcat Julian is a great name in general
+wowcat but would they go on to win x factor usa ???? ha ha ha :)
have you all noticed that most intellectuals find it easier to be more accepting of people of different walks of life compared to people who are.... "not the brightest light bulb in the room" ...👀👀👀👀👀
+Savion Doup Yeah, because we are rational people who can objectively look at evidence and research and be swayed by it in one direction or the other. I mean if some one came at me with a rational argument, and backed up what they were saying with facts, evidence, and logic I would change my stance. I don't want to be willfully ignorant, and I enjoy learning and knowledge which has changed my opinions, views, and outlook on many things in life. I'm a much better person for it.
I think you should say open minded people are more accepting of people from all different walks of life because I think you would be affecting alot of people.
+Alfred Lindsey i mean that too....but what I'm saying is that people that have higher iqs and more worldly seem to be more accepting than people that have lower iqs and are.... LOCAL... that's where I'm getting at....I'm not saying it's a definite I'm saying that it's a consistent
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Savion Doup Oh, okay.
+SHtheInsider I don't know to be honest.... I'm just making an observation of what I've seen and being Trans myself..... it could be the fact that they actually research .... instead of just going with a negative connotation.... or maybe those worldly or higher iq people have the brain capacity to accept more seeming they know more.... who knows
Research has shown that the majority of children (who have not yet reached puberty) who report Gender Dysphoria will not carry the Dysphoria into adolescents. However, for those who do experience it in adolescence will most likely continue to deal with it into adulthood
Myles Schutte You know what’s also great: a change of clothes and pronouns doesn’t equal permanent transition. If these kids decide they’re cis in adolescence, they can go off blockers and express themselves how they please.
@@GalaxyGal- oor you know, never put them on blockers to begin with because that's child abuse..
Mohamed S. It’s precisely the opposite. Forcing someone to go through an already stressful physical process when their entire psychology is inherently against it is abuse.
Actually those blockers are gonna render the child unable to reproduce... but go on believing junk science that ignores the truth
Christine Rolfe “The truth.”
The ignorance in the comment section hurts my eyes.
Jorgethegreatness
Which claims? There are a lot of claims in this comment section.
Black Lightning your delusion hurts my brain
Black Lightning, be patient. It always takes time for society to progress.
im a helicopter and im happy with that!!!
Agreed. People are ignorant & indoctrinated into thinking that transitioning a gender is possible, what has this world come to.
I am raising a grand children who as always thought she was a boy even at three she asked me why did God give her a girl's body in a boys brain...she wants to come out at 13 but is struggling...how do I help her through this time
Maybe start using the preferred pronouns (he/him/his/he's)
Maybe use his pronouns😐
maybe start by using his damn pronouns 😐
You're an amazing grandparent for asking this and I seggest you using male pronouns for him and call him whatever name he wants to be called, and support him no matter what..
@@tallguy5618 Be nice
Transgender and proud, not going to deny, i knew since i was 6 yrs old, came out and my family loves and stands by me for it.
You're genderless and should be stripped of your identity and name. Posing as a false gender while not having one should be considered a crime. You're nothing but a CRIMINAL under a humble disguise.
You’re confused
No@@Highkingofgondor
I appreciate the scientific stance this video takes, rather than the way other people express their views on this topic. Keep doing what you do, guys.
its been 8 years now since you posted this comment... why is everything about this subject just getting worse? 😭
The only sad thing about this video is the fact it will be decades old accepted science and everyone who leaves a hateful message will go down in history as ignorant.
Also the world is not flat anymore for those of you who missed that message too.
penis=male
vagina=female
sexual diffrences = gender diffrences
Gender=what you are born with
Sex and gender are two different things. That's why we have two different words. Help yourself by googling the difference.
Why this dude look like when you hit the random button in the skyrim character creator
He’s Nordic for sure
Science: proves that its not a choice and its a real thing
Transphobes: oh to see without my eyes 🙈
There is not such thing as "transphobe"
@@wubudubuduh5326 there is tho.... look up the definition
Ikr
@@wubudubuduh5326 Never lived in Texas I see !
@@wubudubuduh5326 yes there is
I worked with a pre op trans person a few years back. He was initially employed as female and that was how everyone was first introduced to him as. Everyone, no matter if they knew he was pre op trans or not, identified him as male on a sub conscience level. There was just a sense about him that you got that was masculine. And it wasn't that he dressed butch or anything like that. A few months later he announced that he was going to start hormone treatment for his gender op and would be identifying as male going forward. So it really doesn't just come down to a personal internal choice of the individual - it is just who they are.
How in the hell could you possibly know what everyone identified him as on a sub conscious level. This is such nonsense.
SOME WOMAN ARE MASCULINE BUT THEY ARE NOT MEN. MALE IS BIOLOGICAL TERM NOT FEELING
@@Jenacide people talk
@@frozeneternity93 Lawl ya, I'm sure just EVERYONE was SOOOO fascinated by this person they just couldn't stop talking about them 😂
This is your silly little fantasy, nothing more.
I have a feeling this comment section is going to explode with ignorance.
InMaTeofDeath Yep it sure has. Even on a scientific video saying it's not in us being deluded. still people cant get there head to let people be who they are. I wonder what issues the haters have themselves that other people that don'd effect them must be wrong. Fucked up isn't it? xxx
InMaTeofDeath Hey, when I was a child I wanted to be a dolphin, would you allow me to have surgery to become one? or would you just say that it was a stage I was going through? Serious question, would like an answer.
Do you still want to be now? If so and you truly feel deep down you need to be the dolphin you are and being human is depressing you more and more each day. then Yes you should be what you want to be. I know it's hard to get your head round. but being trans is a complex thing, even for us. al we ask is to be aloud to live our lives happy. it doesn't effect the Cisgender if they just let us be.
InMaTeofDeath Your predictions were correct.
People fear what's different when it doesn't matter if some people are different. It doesn't change anything about the ones that fear it. Just let everyone live their own lives and get on with yours.
- Insert bigoted comment about trans people because I have insecurity problems -
People who get butthurt over this when science even backs it up, are the type of people to be in denial in any situation they dislike
At last, we are letting the world know the truth behind being transgender. Exposure = acceptance. Thank you guys! You're making the world a better, safer place for people like me to live in.
Great video, I've tried to research this myself but couldn't find anything meaningful, just biggots or lgbtq activists screaming at eachother, obviously I intuitively agreed with the lgbtq activists but its nice to be able to quote a study now
Has anyone looked up the word bigot lately
Completely agree, sometimes I just want the pure science without the moral arguments
Same. I actually like to hear it from people who know what their talking about, rather then uneducated people.
MASCULINITY IN FEMALES AND FEMININITY IN MALES.
Oh my goodness, the comment section here is horrible and it makes me sad.
Listen up trans* folk. You're important, your feelings are valid, your identity is real. I love you all a ton.
To the shit posters: please either find compassion in your heart or get lost.
EllaABo
EllaABo I love you all too
Ignore the ignorance
Take care of yourselves, okay?
Also transphobic people just don't understand.
They really don't.
Ignore them.
And love yourself for the beautiful person you are.
Yes they can. But have you ever heard them causing someone to end up killing themselves? Like I understand your point. But it isn't quite on the same level....
Thank you
thanks, b
I am a transgender woman, and I know most o people think I am crazy, I am not, I have awareness of my transgender conditions since I am 6 years old, however recently I had a dramatic discovery with my doctor, and my endocrinologist after a genetic and hormonal study, they found out that according with the imaging and the chromosomic image I have a condition called ovotestis OTSD46XX a condition that makes my body naturally to produce both male and female hormones, making my body naturally intersexed (not male or female). Since I found that I have now an actual medical condition to prove my ambiguity, I still face rejecetion from my family and other people, but what can I do haters will always hate. The thing is I am happily enjoying my life and being my self.
Eliana Golberstein GOOD FOR YOU!
Eliana Golberstein stay strong, people find gender dysphoria so confusing, and intersex people like you are the living proof that nature doesn't make everyone strictly the gender they look like at birth. Keep living your life :)
Eliana Golberstein Your body is not intersected genetically just because it produces make and female hormones. You are either genetically male or genetically female. Also, EVERYONE'S body produces both male and female hormones, and not everyone is "intersexed." Maybe your body produces more of the opposite sex's hormone, but everyone has both in their bodies.
뿡뿡! ^__^ She never claimed to have Kleinfelter's. OTSD46XX merely means she has ovotestis as well as a 46XX karyotype. It's meant to distinguish between other karyotypes in people with ovotestis.
뿡뿡! ^__^ do some research on intersex people before showing your ignorance.
Now I know why I felt that way, in the 50's - 60's you did not talk about it I came to turns with being M2F when I was in my early 40's I am 61 now. It was a hard road to follow thanks Dnews
How did you feel when you found out
😮SO YOU CAM TO TERMS THAT MEN CAN BE FEMININE. AND FEMALE IS NOT FEELING ITS BIOLOGICAL TERM
Thank you so much DNews for doing this!
As a transgender woman I struggle constantly with the ignorance "out there", and every bit helps
Personnel question, hope you dont mind me asking: If you are choosing to have a sex change surgery, Would you consider doing the brain scan before the surgery?
@@jbarb9987 question, why would she?
If she knows she really want to change her sex, and knows that she’s for sure a woman. Why would she need it? It’s also a huge waste of money for something she already knows.
@@omnisexualidiot3750 i guess it depends on if she knows for sure. People have regrets after surgery, and im sure allot them for sure believed that their gender was different from their sex before the surgery regret. I have seen a few videos of people wanting their sex back after surgery. I see no reason to not do it; its a precaution and it if turns out that the brain is the same gender as the sex, its cheaper than surgery to know that and seek psychological treatment.
@@jbarb9987 it’s her choice it doesn’t matter. if she thinks it will help her then she can
@@ironman20150 fair enough
We often over look the fact that we the transgender folk have dealt with our issues for a vary long time. But when we come out to family and friends, they often see it as a choice that was made one Friday morning. For them its suddenly there. It just pops up, like yesterday it was not here and now today it is. This leads them to feel like its a sudden choice that we made one Friday morning. Thus we must be confused. When in actuality, the reason it just came out is usually because we just can not hide it any longer. We have to be sure to express that we have been dealing with these things for a vary long time. We have just been hiding it deep down. Most of us hide it vary well. Keeping it hidden for fear of how they would except it. They may never fully appreciate how painful and depressing it is to be the wrong sex. That is when your brain and sole do match the body.
HOW DO YOU KNOW YOUR WRONG SEX SINCE BIOLOGY MALE FEMALE IS NOT FEELING. HAVE YOU SEEN YOU EVER THOUGHT YOUR FEELING MASCULINITY OR FEMININITY 😂
@@hospitalsgivingpatientsdan8894 It would seem that this subject is beyond you’re comprehension.
@@SleeTheSloth it would seem you have nothing intelligent to add
When you accidentally pick the male in gta 5 when creating a character
This is an underrated comment 🤣
Dude that's really rude
Like wtf
@XxNingyoOkamixX stfu it’s a joke
@@crimson9437 still rude tho, this isn't a joke.
@@arcious60 wah
I think as a 16 year old getting our heads around trans people will be the struggle of our generation we know gay people are perfectly normal but a lot of my friends can't get their heads around trans people I admit sometimes I don't understand it but this helps
There is no reason to hate something you don't understand. i'm not sure why people think that's productive or okay. Why are you watching Discovery News if you don't want to learn?
To the negative posters: The hosts asked you to abide by Wheaton's Law (Don't be a dick!), but many of you ignored that request. If you don't have anything positive and constructive to say OR have an honest question... you shouldn't be posting on a science channel.
Cry more
What the researchers didn't take in account (or at least you didn't mention it) that does brain wiring differences could be caused by behavioral differences. For example a transgender female (believing she is a man) would tend to behave more like a man than a woman as a way to satisfy her desires. Due the brain's plasticity characteristics, this could explain the differences in brain wiring, and as a conclusion, those differences wouldn't be the cause of gender dysphoria but rather a consequence.
you do have a point actually. the thinking patterns open up and strengthen certain connections
Yes, I'm kinda alone here but I remember Choicing been transgender at the age of 4.
That's a good point but wouldn't explain the implicit association test done by primary school aged children as it tests subconscious associations
Transman*
>"For example a transgender female ([blatant transphobia])[...]"
stopped reading right there
and here I am stuck in the middle born intersex stuck as in i was born both told to be male but always felt female hey even when I started puberty i was forced to conform to male normality who cares I had a menstrual cycle give me puberty blockers that fixed everything just stop my physical growth being transgender either by being born intersex or by feeling it in your heart it is no different. I found out that people who argue these facts cannot be argued with because they dont care
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II cannot count how many times I have stood in front of some who stared me straight in the eye and said you cannot be born intersex the same as being transgender scientifically proven facts intersex and transgender are real just because your not means nothing at all just smile at them and walk away. i'm a girl I was born a girl with some male anatomy so they forced me to be a boy but I'm not a boy so i'm transgender I'm a women now the same as many of my transgender sisters i'm still intersex until I get a very expensive surgery done but I still grew up felling horrible about who I am because of how I was born because of a stigma forced on me from birth
and oh look at that now everyone is making remarks about the high rate of suicide in the transgender community after treating us like less than human for most of if not all of our life's. I wonder why we feel so miserable it cannot be that we are socially unaccepted for who we are. or the extremely high % of rape and murders in our community . but yeah just all of you small minded bigots stay in your safe bubble and through stones and continue with the hate you spread . your the reason we have such high rates of suicide in the transgender community.
I hope you find who you feel like, but your intersex should NEVER be considered with people already born with a full gender. Intersex is different from people who just want to be whatever they want.
The problem is not society accepting who you want to be, it's you, you need to accept who you are. the big takeaway is that some point in life maybe in highschool, you accept yourself and what you were born with, you work with what you got, but people who transition don't accept themselves before they transition, they don't learn. I don't know what percentage of the transgender society is religious, but I wouldn't be surprised if next to none were, because it teaches you to be grateful of yourself, what *god* gave you. Being transgender is being ungrateful.
@@jackcolson4745 god is a proverbial nightlight for the weak minded. believe what you want but remember religion causes nothing but violence. History proves that. . I accept who I am it is religious bigots that should mind their own business and stop messing with peoples lives
Do you remove your pp yet?
Just asking y'know
@@hiimstacie1810 If I am not wrong the bible teaches you to be your self so if you want to be yourself do what you want to not what others want you to
What I think is, you don’t get to choose gender
@Mlk Steppu, Last King of Ugarit hey mate find out more about the spectrum first.
@Mlk Steppu, Last King of Ugarit please research this, the first pint these people make is "you cannot choose"
@Mlk Steppu, Last King of Ugarit autism is really not the same 🤦🏼♀️
@Mlk Steppu, Last King of Ugarit but I don't have autism 💁🏼♀️
A test of 18 people isn't enough to really tell.
this was 7 years ago
"The heterosexual control"...Sexuality and gender identity are two entirely DIFFERENT things. I hope Julia just misspoke and intended to say cisgender control.
By far one of the best videos I've seen on trans issues and perhaps the only one on trans brains. Excellent work. (One trans person's stamp of approval.)
YES I PLENTY FRIENDS WHO ARE MASCULINISED WOMAN.
What about people who are gender fluid?
Believe it or not. (Ignore my username indicating a certain gender) I am a transgender woman and I remember telling my family and coming out online so to speak about who I am as a person. My family was practically on the verge of disowning me. Sisters thought I was just attention seeking and that im just confused....after a while I could see i was hurting my family so I decided to just ''pretend'' to be a man , be their ''son'' in the process of losing my self identity. It feels horrible to know that your family hates you just because you do not identify as a gender they see you as. My parents are being selfish....I understand that they had dreams about me having a ''normal'' family and hopes about my future. It is like I have failed them....
so two yrs on. I still feel the same, trapped, scared and lonely. I dont want to be homeless!! people say its easy , dont let anyone tell you who you should or shouldn't be...umm but if its going to leave me homeless...im just going to give in untill I actually have employment and save up to move out
22 yrs old here.
Thank you for this video, it helps to make me feel more normalised. It means a lot
Life update?
SO YOUR A FEMINISED MALE YOU CAN FEEL FEMININITY YOU CAN NOT FEEL FEMALE
How is it going now girl?
/Group hug/ im a transman also closeted like u
thank you for trying to explain all this in an easy way for the people who still don't understand.
The language is why you are all wrong. Assigned? The doctor doesnt determine a gender.... DNA does. You fucks have bumped your heads and eaten far tooo many paint chips.
You're correct, the DNA does. 30+ chromosomes. The doctor can only assign gender based on the visual result of one of them, the one you learned in high school. The doc has a 1 in 150 chance of being right.
Michael Finn there are only two chromosomes responsible for gender so. He has 1/2 chance of getting it right :/
@@sebsloan1632 www.medicaldaily.com/44-year-old-man-blood-urine-discovers-hes-female-period-pain-what-intersex-295296
Erotic Platypus intersex is not a normal condition 2 / 10 000 is a chance to become one so this case doesn't really count
I've always felt like a male and wanted to be a male, but when I gave up on that, it was just being completely ignored. Today, now that I understand the idea of being transgender, I am more accepting of myself. But the idea that I was convinced that I was really a girl because I wanted to be normal, accepted, and understood really makes it hard to believe, and makes me worry that I am convinced I am something I'm not, even though I've pretty much always thought, believed, and wished I was someone, and still do. Especially after this video. What if I'm just subconsciously seeking attention? Am I the only one like this? Can someone please help?
what is a male????
It's not about "wanting"
Are either of you a scientist?? Or are you just quoting wiki??
DNews has a video talking about Brain differences, but then has another rejecting the conclusions of a study that didn't agree with their social values.
That's inconsistent.
Do you remember which video that was?
preto shohmoofc guy I wrote this some 4 months ago, so no. But just go look through their videos.
***** Speaking of Peer review,
This expert who has had over 125 peer reviewed papers says that transgender Surgery Isn't the Solution
cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/johns-hopkins-psychiatrist-transgender-mental-disorder-sex-change
***** I would trust his word of this expert over this youtube video any and every day of the week.
***** No, his study came out in 2015
Yes, but what about the fact that many children (I've heard 70-80%) who express gender dysphoria actually grow out of it and do live their adult lives as the gender they were assigned as? This issue troubles me, because I grew up acting more like a boy and dressing more like a boy than like a girl. I even related to other boys better than girls, didn't understand girls, and deeply longed for a way to change myself into a boy. Now I'm a grown woman and shun the notion that I am in any way a man. What if these young ftms out there, going through transition to become male, would have just grown out of it in a few years?
Also is it not true that hormones affect the mind? So would not a girl who feels more like a boy naturally develop into a woman as her body changes and releases more estrogen? People say that trans men probably were exposed to more testosterone when they were in their mother's womb and that is why their bodies are female but the brains more male. Yet if they were to keep living in their bodies without transitioning, would not the estrogen produced during adolescence and onward offset the testosterone of their youth? I'm not saying that they would become super girly girl later on. I still hate shopping and wearing makeup and hardly dress up. But I still am a woman.
I get what your saying.... but I think that your more queer / gender non conforming than specifically trans.... being trans you would have felt more of a hatred for your genetic body than a childish dislike..... your mind wouldn't change in adult hood even after estrogen sets in..... yes estrogen and testosterone are powerful hormones that help change signal sent to the brain.....their more like a high than MIND CONTROL... like being high on feminity or masculinity... it doesn't change your ENTIRE thought process... Just your initial instincts.... and this is coming from someone who is trans.
If the kids socially transition at a young age then there's nothing that can't be reversed so they can grow out of it without any harm done and go back to being the gender the were assigned. But if the child continues to feel that way then it's a good they started early. Once they reach 16 when they can't start taking hormones they're going to be certain that's who they are, in fact the studies usually are only for very young children that occasionally say something about wanting to be a boy not persistent and consistent male behaviour from birth. And believe me, puberty and oestrogen was the worst thing that happened to me, I was already hating my body at 6 years old but at 15 I wanted to die everyday because I was made to go through the wrong puberty. The gender experts know the children that will grow out of it and which won't, it's just important to get your child help while they're young in case they don't grow out of it because going through the wrong puberty is hell
I agree which is why children need to wait until after puberty to transition.
+Samantha Grover That's why you don't just get hormones that easily if you just say you're trans, first thing that happens is some rigorous testing by psychiatrists before they allow that step...
+hadensdimension oh yeah just make them go through years of depression and suicidal thoughts before they're allowed help, great logic
I always wondered what my brain looks like :D
Hello fellow M H
This is very well put together and informative but the large amount of ignorant comments that just choose to cherry pick the information they are willing to listen to so they don't have to challenge anything they previously believed as true make me wanna cry :/
If you don't like new ideas and accepting new proven concepts why are you watching a science show?
***** There is more proof for it to be a real thing than not, so... shouldn't it be considered the most likely thing until it can be proven wrong? You know, just like evolution...?
***** Yeah, I worded my sentence badly. I know, how it works. I just wanted to recognize that it would be currently the most likely theory, with little credibility due lack of data.
Most likely would mean that it needs to be proven wrong or given a more likely theory to make it crumble. ^^
Good. I just want to point out that. Transgender people are really small minority, so expansive studies might be hard to combine in the common concept of the word.
I do not know the % amount of transgender people out of total population, but I assume it is easily below 5%. That in mind smaller group of people getting studied should matter a bit more as it would be larger portion of the total.
I totally agree though that there is way few studies to make basis for STRONG scientific evidence.
You want to cry over people accepting facts over your tears?
Good.
letting children who have not yet hit puberty transition is ethically criminal...history will show this over time.
No it's not, it's letting the kids be themselves and helps them grow up being who they really are on the inside. Think of it as a cage. The transgender person is in a cage (their gender assigned body) and they're a bird and can't get out. So point being kids who haven't hit puberty yet is okay because it lets their cage be unlocked to fly and be free and happy with themselves. Sorry if you didn't understand any of that, it was the only way I could think of explaining it. Have a good day/night/evening/afternoon :D
@@lulubug12 if I was unconfortable with my body , I would never choose to be transgender , instead I could learn how to love my own natural body ❤
I think there is definitely some bias within the studies done especially the studies done with kids responses. Brain structure is important and hormones influence how the brain is formed. We don’t know everything about the brain and how it works, it’s complicated
I love how the video provides scientific studies justifying the existence of trans people on a neurological level, yet there are still people in the comments trying to delegitimize trans people. We exist whether you like it or not, we always have, it is not unnatural, and science itself backs that up.
Kayla there isn't no such thing as scientific proof of anything, either your male or female God doesn't make mistakes
The Atheist Bear the journal of neurology was created by over 200 accqiuted scientists in the neurology field. It's almost like reality has a leftist bias. The real mental illness here is your cognitive dissonance
E.C. Marin if god doesn't make mistakes then why are you here
@@alexaflowers3732 I just burst out laughing haha
I am hated for that reason, they tell me that I am not Norma
Dude what's wrong with your eyes.
glasses
very strong hypermetropia. he nees to use positive glasses wich are very similar to magnifyng glasses. thats why his eyes looks so big.
movingonandup773 that's not bullying, it's not even teasing. Bullying is consistent. Teasing happens once. And he was asking a question.... And to answer his question, he may have lazy eye. I have very minor lazy eye, but my friend had even worse than this guy. It's just where your pupils are spaced unevenly or they drift off
Yes. Thank you. We are born like this and for real feel like this. So why won't people respect our decisions to transition?
+Johnnie Binggeli I hope you're aware that your reality does not count as "reality".
Exactly
Normal people do , but we are sick of liberals exploiting you to make it part of their agenda and throwing it in our faces.
nobody "throws" it in your face, trans people have been murdered just for being trans and wanting the same rights as cisgender people isn't pushing the trans agenda. we just want to be viewed like everyone else, we do not want special treatment.
*I hope you're aware that your reality does not count as "reality".*
We're aware that you don't live in the same reality as everyone else. It's okay, Johnnie. You'll catch up, eventually.
So...this basically destroys the feminist argument of, there is no such thing as "feeling like a female" and "having a female brain"
Would it be possible to use Julians glasses to harness the power of the sun?
It would be great to hear the parents point of view who are dealing with transgender kids. How do they adapt? How do they handle keeping from distressing the kid?
I hope nobody thrashes you for your point. It's an extremely good point. When I came out to my mum she believed I was selfish and didn't think how she would feel. I wasn't able to stand up for myself (because I was crying) but believe you me I thought how they would struggle and be very troubled by this.
To answer your question some parents try to avoid the topic for the first year or so. But slowly try to build up some kind of understanding (what reasonable parents would do) some will buy books to help them understand and such and such
It's just takes time and research for a parent or family member to understand.
A very good question
@@Anonymous-sg4tr My parents aren't reasonable...
Love the kids unconditionally and listen to what they need. Don't try to live your life through them. That's a recipe for a kid doing well.
If we can accept femininity in males and masculinity in woman we have better outcomes
I am not transgender. I am a man and transexual. My gender was always male and I went through a lot of pain and battle to change my secondary sex characteristics.
I don't identify as male, or transgender I AM male.
I'm sorry, but u lost me.
Same
The quick answer is no.
You know, I appreciate the scientific information, I guess it is helpful to many people who have issues with transgenders. But the problem is not with transgenders, the problem is with people who have the nerve to comment on others lives, when they should work hard on getting a life of their own. And then, maybe those who ARE, living their lives, can live them without obstruction.
I really hate this transgender stuff. To be clear, I don't hate transgender people, I hate the idea of it. I'm not trying to be insulting to anyone who is transgender or supports them with this arguement. But if someone had an eating disorder, what would a doctor do? They wouldn't encourage them to stop eating and get them onto diet plans and such. But that is exactly what happens with transgender people most of the time. "I feel fat so I shouldnt eat." "You're right! Lets get you on a diet, eat these pills, you don't have to eat if you dont want to! Do what ever makes you comfortable!" "I feel like I was born a female instead of a male." "Ok then! Let's get you some surgery and maybe some of these pills! Just do what ever makes you feel comfortable!". You see what I'm saying?
Sprinkle Blitz the issue with that argument, is that you can live a sustained, long and happy life with SRT and your body continues to function properly. With an eating disorder deteriorates your body till it eventually stops working altogether. It's not sustainable, and your life shortens drastically(months). Even if you are allowed not to eat your still unhappy and unsatisfied with the image that you see in the mirror. With SRT almost all patients are happy and satisfied with their treatment and move on to a maintenance type procedures.
TL:DR - an eating disorder has detrimental effects on a persons mind and body. Especially if they are allowed to stop eating where as SRT improves quality of life for the person.
so you take two seperate psychological topics and compare the treating of them the same when they are not. to show what i mean lets take anirexia and autism, you wouldn't treat autism the same way you treat anirexia. also anirexia is something that is purely external (learnt, normally though outside influrances and behavour) unlike being transgender which is something from birth. another example would be anxity and being transgender, you can't treat them both the same way. before comparing psychological states together know the diffences between them first.
the difference is that an eating disorder is learned and curable. when you're transgender, it's something you are biologically and psychologically born with. it isn't "curable" it is treated with the right surgery and hormones for that person to feel comfortable in their body. same with anorexia patients, they get therapy and help to make them feel comfortable in their own body too.
A transgender person doesn't feel right with having a penis or having a vagina and an eating disorder is where you are mentally and physically ill I'm sorry but I just don't agree
thats because encouraging an anorexic person to starve themselves would'nt help but transitioning is the only thing that helps us
People believe anything just because it comes out on TV.
"Even Facebook recognises that reality"😂
Thanks guys for doing this video. I'm not transgender but I am gay, and I knew that by the time I was in kindergarten. Thanks for emphasizing that sexuality is not a choice! I'm here to tell you that, after many years of trying to fit into the "straight" mold, I finally embraced who I really am and am a much better person for it. Those who believe otherwise, because of their upbringing, the church, or other reason, are just plain wrong. Thankfully this country seems to be moving in the right direction in this regard, partly because of videos like this one. Thanks again-- love you guys!
WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE TO BE MALE ? You can only feel masculinity femininity. MALE IS BIOLOGICAL CATEGORY 😂
Free will exists.
@@DeltaSquadron63and so does science and biology…
@@uniquebeautifulflower no scientific fact can be established as being 100% certifiably true.
@@DeltaSquadron63 and neither can free will, after all were all influenced by chemical and electrical impulses.😚
How do I know I feel like a male if I don't know what it's feels like to be female?
how are you doing now? its been six years since this comment was posted so, how would answer this question now? do you have an answer? (im transgender too, it just feels interesting to see how much you've grown in 6 years)
old men pretending to be female *shudder*
Some pretend some arent. Cool pfp, I like the guy who makes those vids
You're either XX or XY. You can say you're not, but it doesn't change your biology.
That being said, I don't have anything against transgender people or want to oppress them. But if my brain tells me that I'm a cat, it doesn't mean that I'm a cat.
I think it's really great that scientists are finding this evidence. Trans people already know that they are not making a choice, but science helps the skeptics understand.
Good presentation and summary but unfortunately the samples presented here are extremely small to be able to extrapolate to the larger population of all people who are transgender. More study needs to be done on a wider basis with bigger groups and verified with multiple studies.
That is why it has been rejected under peer reviews!
About to watch the video and I already dont trust them with the approach of the intro, I'll go for a more reliable source to make my judgement, maybe some studies by reputable scientists.
Thank goodness we have smart people on UA-cam. Your reply should seriously be considered to other people.
Going to find reputable scientists is a good choice. I believe if you want to make a judgement on Transgenders you need to absolutely need to balance up the science, the psychology from good reliable sources.
I'm transgender and some may find it shocking that I do not mind if someone is maybe against Transgenders. As long as I know they've researched it and made a good judgement it's fine by me. Obviously it would be more favourable if everyone was able to understand us but you know it's fine if some don't.
i love how this is more informative than a debate
Question: What does the transgender brain look like
Answer: Exaclty the same as a normal brain.
Literally impossible for that to be true.
technatezin You're right; no two brains look the same.
Question: how many chromosomes does a transgender person has?
Answer: Double the NORMAL count for any other NORMAL person
young kids don't normally even ponder such gender questions by themselves. seeds have been sown on these minds to cause them to ask the question 'am I a boy or a girl'? it is more like social engineering rather than ontological enlightenment
best answer: pull your pants down, case closed
Sooo, it is just a mental illness?
I first figured out what I was in the 5th grade noticing that I was very different from all of the other kids around me, sometimes they would pick on me for it. There were a select few who would embrace me for who I was, born a male but on the inside I knew that I was a transformer
You mean like a new transformer like Transgendacon or Confusedacon?
MALES CAN FEEL FEMININITY BUT THEY WILL NEVER BE WOMAN 😂
I feel I’m 25 years old instead of 60
Umm ok. That’s good bro
Coolio
So, the body is right, the brain is wrong?
I would like for someone to scan my brain so i know what the frick i am already
As a transgender girl, who also loves STEM, this was so charming to watch, it helps me understand myself better.
However, from an impersonal scientific perspective, would the brain scans of a masculine cis girl be significantly different from one of a transboy? And vice versa?
I like this subject but I would love to find more sources about this.
You can’t necessarily be something just because you think or feel you are.
its not about a feeling. gender dysphoria is a recognized diagnosis for the incongruence that transgender individuals experience! it is recognized by many organizations such as the American Psychological Association
, the American Medical Association, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Human Rights Campaign, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Osteopathic Pediatricians, the United Nations, and the United Kingdom’s National Health Service!
The comment above literally destroyed you lmao
@@lemonjuic3r A recognized diagnosis for a mental illness that is, yes.
It is absolutely about a feeling. That feeling is caused by basically a bug in your brain (hence why it's a mental illness).
In basically all the cases ever (except this one, for *some* reason), whenever you encounter a bug, you generally try to get rid of it or work around it somehow, but here for some inane reason, people seem to have decided that the bug is indeed in fact a feature instead!
And since it's a feature, we need to change the whole hardware and software to accommodate this wonderful bug and celebrate whatever _amazing people_ decide to host it in themselves instead of getting rid of it. Oh how stunning and brave they all are!
@@Karsh. see that’s where your understanding falls short. gender dysphoria as a diagnosis is known as the discomfort that comes from experiencing gender incongruence. gender incongruence: the state of being transgender is NOT qualified as a mental illness. you say that when people have these “bugs” relating to mental illnesses they treat them, correct? some of these treatments could be therapy, medication, etc. do you not understand that the treatment for gender dysphoria is gender affirming care? nothing has been proven to get rid of gender incongruence. people with gender incongruence either live with dysphoria or treat it, there’s no in between. deepen your understanding rather than fearing from progression.
@@lemonjuic3r I've deepened my understanding enough.
It used to be qualified as mental illness until it became dangerous to the financial and reputational stability of those institutions, hence they bended their knees to the angry mob and you got what you wanted. But changing the 'official' statement of some institutions won't actually change the reality.
Your 'gender affirming care' is exactly what I mentioned - "welp, just gotta live with the bug forever I guess, bah, it's a feature in fact - I'm *proud* of it!"
In fact, the more I think about it, the more it seems to me like the better analogy would've been a virus, considering that there are many of you who then love to preach to everyone you possibly can about your pride and the greatness of your illness and you want to recruit as many people as possible into your bubble of 'virus worship' or sometimes you'd rather just 'infect' them with it yourself, if possible.
It truly is baffling how there are people who'd want somebody with whom to suffer in their misery so much that they'd basically willingly infect them with things that they themselves often acknowledge to be 'ruining their lives' and such.
After all, why would it be such a terrible alternative to just "live with it" if you didn't know that it's not nice to have it?
Why would anyone subject theirselves to a life of difficulty
Professional Nuzlockers:For the challenge of course
Yes the challenge is so much fun. I urge you to learn more, it isn't a choice. Have a great day!
Sadly, this is inconclusive and I'm afraid it will always be. Behavior can alter genes, environment and experience alter genes through epigenetics . Genetics alter behavior and experience. A big complex feedback loop. Science is going to have to take a back seat on this one.
Thanx...many people are so Ignorant of what is really pretty simple. We need to educated whenever,wherever possible...
This doesn't explain the 50% suicide rate.
None of these studies conducted any tests on children with the same machine as tested on adults.
If treatment of something results to the equivilant of flipping a coin whereas Heads you die, Tails you live - It would not be considered treatment at all.
These children need help not forced injections into their body when they arent even old enough to consent, we restrict children from doing everything else with their bodies except for this. Why?
Richard Bigger I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about at the start (high suicide rate caused by bigots like you) and the rest... you're just an idiot
*****
1) yes you are
2) transitioning IS helping them. It's the only thing that helps most of them.
3) it's important for kids too, maybe evn moreso. Attitudes like yours ARE one of the major reasons suicide rates are so high.
***** I knew you had no fucking clue what you were talking about, that reinforces it. No surgery or anything else is done until they're adults. Kids identified as trans will often go on hormone blockers when they're older to delay puberty a few years and then make the final decision which puberty to go through.
Because being forced to go through default puberty can be hard on them, emotionally and it makes transitioning harder as they later have undo what puberty did and g through puberty again with new hormones.
***** 1) yes they should for the reasons I already told you.
and 2) they do know what it means.
***** more ignorance. they're not on blockers when they're 5 it's closer to puberty. And by then they can understand what puberty and the drugs are. A 5 year old would just live as the other gender and there's nothing wrong with that.
This research contradicts the theory that gender is a social construct, which is what I believe in
In that case you need to learn a lot more. Lets for example look at tribes that have been isolated from rest of the world, in all of those tribes there are men and women.
If gender would be social construct, young kids would start to play with "wrong" kind of toys and play "wrong" kind of plays/games, and only once they have been repeadetly told what they are and what they are supposed to like they understand it. But in reality, boys do boyish stuff and girls girlish stuff, and it all comes automatically.
Gender is not a social construct, though there is alot of social construct BS atached to the concept of gender.
So you know I don't mean to be rude, but they were almost saying it is a mental illness. They were literally saying it was a brain condition.
Just saying...
We could say introversion is a brain condition, or being bilingual is a brain condition. Brains are incredibly diverse, and what seems to define "mental illness" or "disorder" is the fact that the wiring highly interferes with daily life--but two factors of that are internal interference (stemming from the condition itself) and societal interference (such as discrimination for being different). Keep in mind that homosexuality used to be considered a disorder in the DSM, but now it's more commonly considered a natural variation, and societal interference has definitely decreased. Feeling like an actual human instead of a disorder sure helps decrease incidence of depression, anxiety and the like.
A similar thing is occurring with Autism Spectrum Disorder, as people are recognizing that many issues autistic people face are from society, and from co-existing health conditions that can occur as a result of having sensitive brains and bodies along with the added stress of navigating an unfriendly world.
Sorry but that mans glasses magnifies his eyes so bad lol
Fake news
For people who see no problem accepting LGBT+++ it affects sports and mostly women sports.
Before the transphobes start commenting make sure your opinions are well educated and don't be biased.
Anonymous 2357 liberal BABBLE! You’re either a Male or Female. “tRaNSpHoBiA” doesn’t exist
There's a alien trapped inside the man.
I laughed so hard thanks
When you go to the trouble of explaining what cisgender means, it is weird that you then go on to refer to cisgender people as 'male' and 'female.' Trans people are also male and female, so this makes no sense whatsoever. In future videos like this, please be consistent.
Greenwickpress Good point! Will do.
Except some trans people aren't male or female. Nonbinary people do exist, you know.
Your comment i find quite funny and doesn't make sense lol cisgender means your brain gender matches your body sex and transgender, your braingender doesn't match your body sex. People you are the only ones here with a learning disability. Do your education so we don't have anymore than 50% of trans deaths. Be kind when you see trans ppl there is absolutely nothing hard to believe about trans ppl.
Janne K Well, male and female refer to your biological sex, not your gender.
happyhappy joyjoy Gender is not interchangeable with sex. They are different. Sex is purely physical, whilst gender is psychological and also not real. You can't take a blood sample and tell someone's gender, only their sex. Also, are really saying that sociology and psychology aren't real sciences? That's pretty ignorant.
Why are people confusing transgender with gender dysphoria.
For all you who hate transgender people and or the concept of people being transgender, ask yourself how does this directly affect you? Why do you have a fervent desire to make it known that you disapprove of these individuals living their life the way they feel?
If your a man and your happy about it, continue to be that man, if your a woman and your happy about it, continue to be a woman. There should not have to be ANY justification whether it is scientific or not for anyone to be transgender, if that is how one feels then so be it.
Anyone who hates this concept has no life, it's clearly evident by the amount of attention they have to spare to worry about what sex or gender someone is who they have no connection to in their own life.
If it matters so much that someone is biologically born of a certain sex, no one is stopping you from meeting said person and having a life with them, so go do that and move on. This discussion is fucking childish.
Kaere G "you're"
Kara G it affects society
i want to delete my channel plz Since when do transgenders get special treatment 🤔 Wanting equality is special treatment now?
i want to delete my channel plz Obviously you are easily offended too because you are offended by people just being who they want to be (in this case transgenders being transgender)
i want to delete my channel plz i wanna know what special treatment i get like please explain im curious.
Very interesting indeed... so, after all, and contary to gender-feminism, gender is not a social construct, it is wired deep down in our brain! So we should raise our kids without asking ourselves too much questions, about their gender and the impact of our education on them, as they will find themselves who they really are! I find it very reassuring indeed. Let's live and let live!!!
Wow I was 10 when this came, out a year before I did myself
Like coming out to my family ;+;
im a ftm transgender and im finding my way little by little eachday. i will not let words hurt me
maniac lps Same here.
I hate how they say "assigned" at birth as if a doctor was just like "hmm let's call this one a girl, because we already assigned a lot of boys today, we will make this a girl".
In another Dnews video they said men and women are the same physiologically. So if gender is a social construct then how can transgender people have different brains from birth? The study showed that the microstructures in the brain take a middle position for transgender people, then how does that explain the 50 genders to choose from on Facebook?
Gender stereotypes are a construct of society, and gender is a spectrum that's why Facebook have so many options for the people that don't fit strictly into the male and female binary
Personally, and I believe the transmed community would agree, that those 50 Facebook genders are bullcrap, those are just sjw terms that dont really make scientific sense. Also, how old was the video saying the brains were the same? Does it take into account new research? The micro structures?
@@superjordski25 gender is not a spectrum... it's not like autism
Ryan Thomas it is a spectrum though. There is binary Male and binary female at either end then everything else in between.
@@ryanthomas9306 So would a tomboy be more female or less? Does our primary or secondary sexual characteristics determine what we desire, want, or wear? Is there a biological proof the blue is a male color and female is pink?
5? Five year olds aren't even conscious enough
Ben Adams You're joking right?
***** my grammar has nothing to do with this. 1. You understood very well what I was saying, no questions asked. 2. He does not
Lucas Sama 5yos still think the opposite sex has cuties. They're more concerned about their next nap time
Cuties? Cooties? Idk
Ben Adams Yes she does, she puts periods at the end of her sentences.
So what are the chances of it being a chemical imbalance very early in life and because it's not caught or corrected strengthening those connections
I wanna be an elephant, but everyone just laughs at me.
that's otherkin
I've personally always wanted to be an AH-6 attack helicopter
Sorry that no one takes you seriously. Just know I'm here to support you. All the way.
I want to be a female, but I also want to be a female cat.
if you want t=me to address you as an elephant than that is your right...
This was a very interesting study!!!!! Thank you :)
Jorgethegreatness check the description box
Alayna June yes because
nerves = gender
Why so many dislikes??!
This channel strives to be a science channel. However what people do not like is having weak scientific links or theories and mixing that with their own political agenda.
I do not want to be bombarded constantly gender identity, while that is not that scientifically really. I do respect all people, but I did not come to this channel for that crap.
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They were not assigned at birth, they were determined by a sonogram to be either a female or a male in their mother's womb