This has a lot of notes but I will throw in my 2 cents for my own piece of mind.Â
Gonna throw in some sources.Â
Here is some current science discourse (stuff that discusses neurological and biological research being done on gender, sex, transgender, inter-sex, and non-binary.):Â
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/22/transgender-brain-scans-promised-study-shows-structural-differences/
âAlthough more research is needed, we now have evidence that sexual differentiation of the brain differs in young people with GD, as they show functional brain characteristics that are typical of their desired gender.â
https://www.simplypsychology.org/gender-biology.html
âGender refers to the cultural differences expected (by society / culture) of men and women according to their sex. A personâs sex does not change from birth, but their gender can.â
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/nov-24-2018-accidental-domestication-an-electric-airplane-the-science-of-gender-identity-and-more-1.4916481/scientist-refutes-notion-that-gender-identity-is-an-unscientific-liberal-ideology-1.4916508
https://www.the-scientist.com/features/are-the-brains-of-transgender-people-different-from-those-of-cisgender-people-30027
Dick Swaab of the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience is a pioneer in the neuroscience underlying gender identity. In the mid-1990s, his group examined the postmortem brains of six transgender women and reported that the size of the central subdivision of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BSTc or BNSTc), a sexually dimorphic area in the forebrain known to be important to sexual behavior, was closer to that of cisgender women than cisgender men.2 A follow-up study of autopsied brains also found similarities in the number of a certain class of neurons in the BSTc between transgender women and their cisgender counterpartsâand between a transgender man and cisgender men.3 These differences did not appear to be attributable to the influence of endogenous sex hormone fluctuations or hormone treatment in adulthood. In another study published in 2008, Swaab and a coauthor examined the postmortem volume of the INAH3 subnucleus, an area of the hypothalamus previously linked to sexual orientation. The researchers found that this region was about twice as big in cisgender men as in women, whether trans- or cisgender.4
https://slate.com/technology/2018/11/sex-binary-gender-neither-exist.html
Despite my posting on research being done on non-binary, intersex, and trans people; I donât even buy half the stuff I just peddled. My point was that even the scientific community doesnât think gender is a binary. I donât think Gender can be defined by the medical, or the biological fields.Â
Body, Identity, and Social canât be dismissed. And since Gender is a social construct; all these factors play a role.Â













