[babble-on]

hormonal conditions in the womb perhaps

[Mr. K]

“No no no no no no no no no....” he explained.

[dhs12345]

Uh oh. He went against the lbqertyabcxyzzz orthodox. Crucify him now.

[GnuThere]

Why don’t they study how many of them have a history of abuse, and crazy parents? Because they know the answer, maybe?

[pepsi_junkie]

I have to wonder if they studied trans people who were already doping themselves with hormones. They impact things all over, including the brain.

If so, this study is a bit like the Kinsey report, which gays love to tout as proving 10% of the population is gay. Kinsey interviewed convicts and asked them if they ever had a gay experience, 10% admitted they had. Boom, that's the same as the regular world and we have heard it for 60 years. But the sample was corrupted from the beginning.

[BBQToadRibs]

I don’t have to be around my wife and her friends for very long before it’s pretty clear there are some male/female brain differences.

[I want the USA back]

Wanting to lop off your schmeckel is not innate. It is a malfunction, a disorder.
No one is born wanting to slice it off.
The f*ckheads are desperate to prove that gay/dickchopping is 100% natural.
No, it isn’t, and they are insane.

[scripter]

"The fundamental problem is that a brain 'difference' detected at a single point in time cannot establish causation because thinking and behavior are known to alter brain anatomy, activity and function. This process is known as neuroplasticity."

This is precisely why Simon LeVay's 1991 study on the hypothalamus was useless to support the theory some are born with an attraction to the same sex.

LeVay's study was misrepresented from the start, causing many to think gays are born that way. Year's later LeVay had to set the record straight and state his study did NOT support the born that way theory.

I was recently reading a study from last year where (in the UK), they claimed to have found the gay gene. Well, no, they didn't, but people only remember the sensational headlines.

It's too bad we have reporters misrepresenting studies and some freepers who want to believe some people are born with an attraction to the same sex. Here's to hoping everybody reads and understands the actual facts.

[BitWielder1]

If you don't agree with the outcome of a study you can always ask for more money for another one.

What they don't seem to factor in is how gender dysphoria has become fashionable and therefore attracts people who are merely craving attention.

[lurk]

Outside of tumors and trauma, they’ll never be able to consistently detect significant brain factors to predict behaviors. People are too soul-complex to be figured out with an MRI.

[Nifster]

Good article

[ifinnegan]

So many of these MRI based studies are close to junk science.

They make conclusions that are unwarranted based on the technology and measurements.

I’ve noticed there are often social/political biases in the studies.

I think some people would want to use brain scans to prove thought crimes.

[DPMD]

Does the study answer the question, “did the brain functions cause the delusion or did the delusion cause the brain functions?”

[fruser1]

Supposedly, folks with depression have different brain activity too. That doesn’t mean they’re born that way, it’s just a detectable symptom of the illness.

[fruser1]

Supposedly, folks with depression have different brain activity too. That doesn’t mean they’re born that way, it’s just a detectable symptom of the illness.

[fwdude]

Behavior - and the more entrenched, the more affecting - changes the brain. This is well established.