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Isn't testosterone simply a byproduct of other hormonal processes? More of a measurement of effect than cause?
But I'm not sure what you're getting at. Trust me, inject 500mg of testosterone a week, you're going to notice changes.
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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…
I wonder if something like an MRI could allow medical professionals or diagnostic systems to automatically categorize this non-invasively? When we reach a world where everyone has more star trek level medical care then a true survey of the population may allow for everyone to have improved lives.
To illustrate my point, consider if this was the title: There is no evidence that being female reduces cognitive function.
>Prior to this work, the strongest evidence for a link between testosterone exposure and reduced cognitive empathy came in 2011 in a study that found administering testosterone to healthy women reduced their performance on a test of reading emotions. The results suggested the testosterone impaired their performance. That's interesting. Adult males typically have 7-8 times the levels that females do, and females are m…
Trans woman here. Cisgender men and women have different brain structures, and transgender people's brain structures tend to resemble that of the gender that they identify as[1]. So, for example, a trans woman like myself who was born male will have a brain structure that resembles that of a cis woman, not a man. > I know a trans man who, after a few months of testosterone, claimed it was "night and day" in how they…
This is a great metaphor, thanks for sharing this
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That's actually very interesting, do you know if/how they described the differences in perception?
I can describe my own (FWIW I went the other direction). Best way I can say it is that my own understanding of emotion was rather black-and-white when on testosterone. I intellectually knew that other people had emotions beyond anger or sadness, but had no frame of reference for what that meant. I tended to see major challenges as obstacles to be overcome through force of will. On estrogen it's like seeing the world…
Isn't testosterone simply a byproduct of other hormonal processes? More of a measurement of effect than cause?
A smaller amount is from the pituitary in both men and women.
Depending on your weight there is an enzyme created in fat cells called aromatase which converts testosterone to estrogens which can have an impact on your overall hormonal picture.
Testosterone is derived in the body from cholesterol, which is way proper fat consumption is so important for a healthy endocrine system.
Isn't testosterone simply a byproduct of other hormonal processes? More of a measurement of effect than cause?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder if something like an MRI could allow medical professionals or diagnostic systems to automatically categorize this non-invasively? When we reach a world where everyone has more star trek level medical care then a true survey of the population may allow for everyone to have improved lives.
Perhaps. I'm a little concerned that if this approach is used for diagnostics that it becomes another form of gatekeeping. (i.e. someone is transgender but denied treatment because their brain scans come up as cis.)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I wonder if something like an MRI could allow medical professionals or diagnostic systems to automatically categorize this non-invasively? When we reach a world where everyone has more star trek level medical care then a true survey of the population may allow for everyone to have improved lives.
>Prior to this work, the strongest evidence for a link between testosterone exposure and reduced cognitive empathy came in 2011 in a study that found administering testosterone to healthy women reduced their performance on a test of reading emotions. The results suggested the testosterone impaired their performance. That's interesting. Adult males typically have 7-8 times the levels that females do, and females are m…
I'm actually curious how this changes the narrative of a trans person if testosterone doesn't have an effect on one's empathy.