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Neurology

Some trans individuals neurologically reflect cisgender people of their desired gender, indicating a neurological component to their experiences.

• European Society of Endocrinology 18
  • BRAIN SCANS show that (many) transgender individuals neurologically reflect their identity, not their assigned gender at birth.
    • The study included both adolescent boys and girls with gender dysphoria and used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to assess brain activation patterns in response to a pheromone known to produce gender-specific activity.
    • The pattern of brain activation in both transgender adolescent boys and girls more closely resembled that of non-transgender boys and girls of their desired gender.

Writer’s note: this is for more of a transmed-focused argument. Better as an “even if” arg; you shouldn’t need to prove a biological basis for transness since gender is a mode of social identification