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It's not news, but it's still fairly new and developing information. We have mounting evidence that gender identity is somehow deeply encoded in the brain, but
by chc 9y ago
It's not news, but it's still fairly new and developing information. We have mounting evidence that gender identity is somehow deeply encoded in the brain, but we don't know how or why — this is just more evidence to suggest that it is.
- chiefalchemist 9y agoIt seems to me that gender (at the extremes: XX v XY) is the byproduct of a mutation (read: variation). In that context, it makes sense that there are degrees of variation (if you will). That is, it's in the best interest of the species to experiment (if you will) with other (genetic) possibles. The fact that people identify as something non-binary is natural, and (imho) expected. There's likely more variation than we've previously realized due to social constructs.
- toasterlovin 9y agoAnother perspective: If you consider a gender to be the distinct set of behaviors that achieve the highest genetic fitness for their matched biological sex, then there is likely to be much less variation than current political discourse would suggest.
- chiefalchemist 9y agoWhy would that lead to less variation? What would cause hormones to not (say) bell curve? And hormones are just one piece in the puzzle. There are, for example, a diversity of hair color, and that changes over a lifetime. Why would DNA's natural "experiments" with regards to gender be any different?