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Male-to-female transsexuals have female neuron numbers in a limbic nucleus.
Kruijver FP1, Zhou JN, Pool CW, Hofman MA, Gooren LJ, Swaab DF.
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Abstract
Transsexuals experience themselves as being of the opposite sex, despite having the biological characteristics of one sex. A crucial question resulting from a previous brain study in male-to-female transsexuals was whether the reported difference according to gender identity in the central part of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BSTc) was based on a neuronal difference in the BSTc itself or just a reflection of a difference in vasoactive intestinal polypeptide innervation from the amygdala, which was used as a marker. Therefore, we determined in 42 subjects the number of somatostatin-expressing neurons in the BSTc in relation to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and past or present hormonal status. Regardless of sexual orientation, men had almost twice as many somatostatin neurons as women (P The number of neurons in the BSTc of male-to-female transsexuals was similar to that of the females (P = 0.83). In contrast, the neuron number of a female-to-male transsexual was found to be in the male range. Hormone treatment or sex hormone level variations in adulthood did not seem to have influenced BSTc neuron numbers. The present findings of somatostatin neuronal sex differences in the BSTc and its sex reversal in the transsexual brain clearly support the paradigm that in transsexuals sexual differentiation of the brain and genitals may go into opposite directions and point to a neurobiological basis of gender identity disorder.
This is old news, with the research that led to this turn-of-the-century study being based on previous studies from the 1990s.
You can read a WSJ article that covers more ground in a simpler manner here. A more extensive treatment of sexual differentiation in the interconnections of the brains of transsexuals more closely resembling their target gender rather than their birth sex can be found here.
That transsexuals have brains that are more a match for their perceived gender than their biological sex is pretty much accepted as fact by most of the medical community. The only ones who still see this as controversial mostly have hidden agendas (religion, etc).
For decades, we've been teaching children that it's not a person's appearance that matters, it's their minds. Well, we now have proof that, in the case of transsexuals, this is especially true. Physical cause, not psychological delusion.
Think of it this way - if we were able to transplant your brain into a body of the opposite sex, you would still be the same person, and perceive that you now have the wrong body.
Prepaid smartphones don't have to have your real name and address. No "the cat is out of the bag" there. They can generate profiles all they want, but it won't connect to the real you, just an internet doppelganger.
This is especially true because animals have evolved to learn to distinguish between reflections and non-reflections, and these may very well be hard-coded, not needing self-awareness. Any animal that attacks their reflection in a pool of water is going to come up empty-handed. Any animal that retreats from their reflection in the water is going to be mighty thirsty.
One of the politically non-correct things that we're not allowed to say is that there are differences between the way men and women think that affect their choices. If this wasn't true, transsexuals wouldn't exist:-) It's also the reason why TERFs (Transsexual-hating Extreme Radical Feminists) hate us - it goes against their message that the only reason women don't have proper representation to fields like programming is "because MEN!"
Learning how to code is a skill that has one of the lowest barriers to entry. There are working computers being thrown out that are more than 1000x faster than the one I learned on, with more than 10,000 times as much ram. Couple that with a free tube svga monitor (again, far better than what I learned on), a free operating system and tools (even FreeDOS and basic are good enough if you want to follow the KISS principle), and a book from the library, and you're ready to go.
Computers are everywhere - there's no lack of exposure. Many of these girls have their own computers (smartphones) so they know what computers can do. Most also have access to computers at home but only want them to surf the net. If and when they need to do something more, like spreadsheets, there is no barrier to learning. Same with more complicated stuff, right up to assembly-language programming. If you have a need, you can learn it, your sex doesn't matter.
We know that different people have different interests. Why do we refuse to even consider that it extends to gender to a certain extent, especially when it comes to coding? Oh, right - just follow the money.
Sure, we have indicators of self-awareness. But the results of the mirror test may be due to other factors. For example, many animals don't freak out when they see their reflection in the water, so there's probably a hard-coded way to determine reflection vs other which doesn't need self-awareness.
Interesting that they say dogs don't pass the mirror test - even an aggressive dog will recognize the difference between a mirror image of themselves and another dog.
Women may have a limited number of opportunities for offspring, but that has nothing to do with opportunities for sex. Women can have as much sex as they want because men will screw anything, even a porcupine. Men, on the other hand, not so easy.
A little boy and a little girl are in the school yard.
The little boy pulls down his shorts and says "Nya nya, I've got a penis and you don't"
The little girl hikes up her skirt and says "I've got one of these, and my mommy says that with one of these, I can have as many penises as I want."
The men spend so much time thinking about sex because they have to come up with ways to get some. Women can just look at the offers on the table.
If someone does manage to pry it from you before you assume room temperature, you can go to a much older personal calculator, one that is still in use today. Abacus FTW. Cheaper to make, too.
Also, it's in the first line of the summary: "Hackers have put on sale OmniRAT, a remote access trojan that can target Androids, Linux, Mac, and Windows PCs" Last I heard, Macs run OSX.
How would we ever know for sure when it happens. Every time we make a definition for AI, and then reach that milestone, we end up moving the goalposts because "that's not really AI." Just shows that we can't even define it properly, same as we can't define self-aware with a set of rules that we can use to test if something is truly self aware or not.
Just because you say you're self-aware is not sufficient. I have to trust you, because I have no test that can definitively prove you are one way or another.
Software developers normally release for Windows, either first or exclusively, then OSX, and rarely for linux. This one is available for Android, which runs atop linux, first.
I completely agree it's divisive. It's a total non sequitur, gratuitously thrown in to provoke. Trying to encourage girls and women to code has nothing to do with heading a large corporation. They're completely different skill sets, with different career paths. The people running the corporations aren't going to write code - they're going to hire someone else to because it costs less in terms of dollars per hour of salary worked. Why would they want to know how to code when they can hire a specialist who can do the job better and faster.
My way of dealing with it was to make fun of it:-) Because it's not just divisive, it's stupid.
Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner is not a Woman. He is a man, who has had surgeries and hormone therapy so that his body vaguely resembles that of a female. He chooses to identify himself as a female, and personally I have no problem with that. But I am under no obligation to contribute to his personal delusions.
Depends on where you are, I guess. Here, you most definitely ARE under the obligation to refer transsexuals by their new name and new pronouns (she, her, etc). When people holding a public meeting tried to shame me into shutting up by misgendered me repeatedly, thus "outing" me, they ended up publishing apologies to me in the news sections of the two largest newspapers (combined circulation of just over 400,000) on their nickel, thus outing themselves as knuckle-dragging mouth-breathing idiots. Sure, the whole world now knows, but it's not like I should be ashamed or anything.
I could have pressed the matter and been awarded a five-figure sum (tax-free) but the apologies ended the affair quickly and effectively from my point of view.
Donno. Never had the urge to watch it. What little I saw before I turned the channel promised to be as boring as The English Patient, which I also stopped watching early on.
They hired a straight guy to play Will in Will and Grace because the gay guys who applied weren't "gay enough." The hired Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives, etc) to play the lead role as a transsexual named Sabrina Osborne in the movie TransAmerica. A good actor can play any roll. A bad actor can't even play themselves in an autobiography.
demands a selfless focus on the subject (the code, the game, the proof), which is pretty hard to achieve when you think bearing children is the ultimate meaning of life.
Try this on for size:
demands a selfless focus on the subject (the code, the game, the proof), which is pretty hard to achieve when you think having sex is the ultimate meaning of life.
Claiming women can't bring sufficient concentration to a problem because of their interest in child-bearing is as lame as claiming men can't because of sex.
No - everything I wrote is factual. It is a mistake to think that transsexual and transgender are the same thing. Cross-dressing, etc., are sexual fetishes, and have nothing to do with transsexuals. It's also a fact that some m2f transsexuals have a hyper-stereotyped image of what a woman should look like and how she should behave. They try to conform to this exaggerated "ideal" rather than just being themselves, so in effect they ARE acting out a role. This is decidedly unhealthy, because they've given up acting in one roll (male) for acting in another role (female). Then they are not accepted by those around them who sense it's somehow an act. They even go to the extent of wiping out all their past experience as their birth sex. It becomes unmentionable, taboo. Something they don't want to deal with. Somehow, to admit to it makes them feel less genuine. You'll never see them say "When I was a guy..." or "I've seen it from both sides of the gender divide and.." Ask any shrink and they'll tell you erasure of your past is unhealthy.
BTW: Transvestites turn gender into an act that ends when they change clothes. Transsexuals walk the walk, 24/7. Big difference. Those who feel the need to put on an "act" are usually rabid SJWs.
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Male-to-female transsexuals have female neuron numbers in a limbic nucleus.
Kruijver FP1, Zhou JN, Pool CW, Hofman MA, Gooren LJ, Swaab DF.
Author information
Abstract
Transsexuals experience themselves as being of the opposite sex, despite having the biological characteristics of one sex. A crucial question resulting from a previous brain study in male-to-female transsexuals was whether the reported difference according to gender identity in the central part of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BSTc) was based on a neuronal difference in the BSTc itself or just a reflection of a difference in vasoactive intestinal polypeptide innervation from the amygdala, which was used as a marker. Therefore, we determined in 42 subjects the number of somatostatin-expressing neurons in the BSTc in relation to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and past or present hormonal status. Regardless of sexual orientation, men had almost twice as many somatostatin neurons as women (P The number of neurons in the BSTc of male-to-female transsexuals was similar to that of the females (P = 0.83). In contrast, the neuron number of a female-to-male transsexual was found to be in the male range. Hormone treatment or sex hormone level variations in adulthood did not seem to have influenced BSTc neuron numbers. The present findings of somatostatin neuronal sex differences in the BSTc and its sex reversal in the transsexual brain clearly support the paradigm that in transsexuals sexual differentiation of the brain and genitals may go into opposite directions and point to a neurobiological basis of gender identity disorder.
This is old news, with the research that led to this turn-of-the-century study being based on previous studies from the 1990s.
You can read a WSJ article that covers more ground in a simpler manner here. A more extensive treatment of sexual differentiation in the interconnections of the brains of transsexuals more closely resembling their target gender rather than their birth sex can be found here.
That transsexuals have brains that are more a match for their perceived gender than their biological sex is pretty much accepted as fact by most of the medical community. The only ones who still see this as controversial mostly have hidden agendas (religion, etc).
For decades, we've been teaching children that it's not a person's appearance that matters, it's their minds. Well, we now have proof that, in the case of transsexuals, this is especially true. Physical cause, not psychological delusion.
Think of it this way - if we were able to transplant your brain into a body of the opposite sex, you would still be the same person, and perceive that you now have the wrong body.
Prepaid smartphones don't have to have your real name and address. No "the cat is out of the bag" there. They can generate profiles all they want, but it won't connect to the real you, just an internet doppelganger.
No attention span at all - unlike even the dumbest of humans - who at least keep track of simple topics.
Unfortunately, technology is removing the difference, making more and more people to be no better than chatbots.
This is especially true because animals have evolved to learn to distinguish between reflections and non-reflections, and these may very well be hard-coded, not needing self-awareness. Any animal that attacks their reflection in a pool of water is going to come up empty-handed. Any animal that retreats from their reflection in the water is going to be mighty thirsty.
One of the politically non-correct things that we're not allowed to say is that there are differences between the way men and women think that affect their choices. If this wasn't true, transsexuals wouldn't exist :-) It's also the reason why TERFs (Transsexual-hating Extreme Radical Feminists) hate us - it goes against their message that the only reason women don't have proper representation to fields like programming is "because MEN!"
Learning how to code is a skill that has one of the lowest barriers to entry. There are working computers being thrown out that are more than 1000x faster than the one I learned on, with more than 10,000 times as much ram. Couple that with a free tube svga monitor (again, far better than what I learned on), a free operating system and tools (even FreeDOS and basic are good enough if you want to follow the KISS principle), and a book from the library, and you're ready to go.
Computers are everywhere - there's no lack of exposure. Many of these girls have their own computers (smartphones) so they know what computers can do. Most also have access to computers at home but only want them to surf the net. If and when they need to do something more, like spreadsheets, there is no barrier to learning. Same with more complicated stuff, right up to assembly-language programming. If you have a need, you can learn it, your sex doesn't matter.
We know that different people have different interests. Why do we refuse to even consider that it extends to gender to a certain extent, especially when it comes to coding? Oh, right - just follow the money.
Sure, we have indicators of self-awareness. But the results of the mirror test may be due to other factors. For example, many animals don't freak out when they see their reflection in the water, so there's probably a hard-coded way to determine reflection vs other which doesn't need self-awareness.
Interesting that they say dogs don't pass the mirror test - even an aggressive dog will recognize the difference between a mirror image of themselves and another dog.
Women may have a limited number of opportunities for offspring, but that has nothing to do with opportunities for sex. Women can have as much sex as they want because men will screw anything, even a porcupine. Men, on the other hand, not so easy.
A little boy and a little girl are in the school yard.
The little boy pulls down his shorts and says "Nya nya, I've got a penis and you don't"
The little girl hikes up her skirt and says "I've got one of these, and my mommy says that with one of these, I can have as many penises as I want."
The men spend so much time thinking about sex because they have to come up with ways to get some. Women can just look at the offers on the table.
Maybe you should search for the subsequent studies that validated the one I cited, and also found the other effects I listed?
As for Green, even a broken clock is right once in a while.
Thanks - and you're right - it's a sucker's bet.
If someone does manage to pry it from you before you assume room temperature, you can go to a much older personal calculator, one that is still in use today. Abacus FTW. Cheaper to make, too.
I didn't know Jesus had an orgasm even ONE time.
Also, it's in the first line of the summary: "Hackers have put on sale OmniRAT, a remote access trojan that can target Androids, Linux, Mac, and Windows PCs" Last I heard, Macs run OSX.
How would we ever know for sure when it happens. Every time we make a definition for AI, and then reach that milestone, we end up moving the goalposts because "that's not really AI." Just shows that we can't even define it properly, same as we can't define self-aware with a set of rules that we can use to test if something is truly self aware or not.
Just because you say you're self-aware is not sufficient. I have to trust you, because I have no test that can definitively prove you are one way or another.
Software developers normally release for Windows, either first or exclusively, then OSX, and rarely for linux. This one is available for Android, which runs atop linux, first.
I completely agree it's divisive. It's a total non sequitur, gratuitously thrown in to provoke. Trying to encourage girls and women to code has nothing to do with heading a large corporation. They're completely different skill sets, with different career paths. The people running the corporations aren't going to write code - they're going to hire someone else to because it costs less in terms of dollars per hour of salary worked. Why would they want to know how to code when they can hire a specialist who can do the job better and faster.
My way of dealing with it was to make fun of it :-) Because it's not just divisive, it's stupid.
NOW will people stop complaining about software makers ignoring Linux in favour of Windows and OSX?
Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner is not a Woman. He is a man, who has had surgeries and hormone therapy so that his body vaguely resembles that of a female. He chooses to identify himself as a female, and personally I have no problem with that. But I am under no obligation to contribute to his personal delusions.
Depends on where you are, I guess. Here, you most definitely ARE under the obligation to refer transsexuals by their new name and new pronouns (she, her, etc). When people holding a public meeting tried to shame me into shutting up by misgendered me repeatedly, thus "outing" me, they ended up publishing apologies to me in the news sections of the two largest newspapers (combined circulation of just over 400,000) on their nickel, thus outing themselves as knuckle-dragging mouth-breathing idiots. Sure, the whole world now knows, but it's not like I should be ashamed or anything.
I could have pressed the matter and been awarded a five-figure sum (tax-free) but the apologies ended the affair quickly and effectively from my point of view.
Donno. Never had the urge to watch it. What little I saw before I turned the channel promised to be as boring as The English Patient, which I also stopped watching early on.
They hired a straight guy to play Will in Will and Grace because the gay guys who applied weren't "gay enough." The hired Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives, etc) to play the lead role as a transsexual named Sabrina Osborne in the movie TransAmerica. A good actor can play any roll. A bad actor can't even play themselves in an autobiography.
[whoosh] I guess you didn't get it :-( [/whoosh]
demands a selfless focus on the subject (the code, the game, the proof), which is pretty hard to achieve when you think bearing children is the ultimate meaning of life.
Try this on for size:
demands a selfless focus on the subject (the code, the game, the proof), which is pretty hard to achieve when you think having sex is the ultimate meaning of life.
men are willing to have sex with just about anything that crosses their path, which I guess explains the two guys that had sex with a porcupine
Claiming women can't bring sufficient concentration to a problem because of their interest in child-bearing is as lame as claiming men can't because of sex.
Which of course brings up the question of why there are almost no pets in STEM careers.
PETA. Bosses wouldn't be allowed to treat animals the way they treat humans :-)
No - everything I wrote is factual. It is a mistake to think that transsexual and transgender are the same thing. Cross-dressing, etc., are sexual fetishes, and have nothing to do with transsexuals. It's also a fact that some m2f transsexuals have a hyper-stereotyped image of what a woman should look like and how she should behave. They try to conform to this exaggerated "ideal" rather than just being themselves, so in effect they ARE acting out a role. This is decidedly unhealthy, because they've given up acting in one roll (male) for acting in another role (female). Then they are not accepted by those around them who sense it's somehow an act. They even go to the extent of wiping out all their past experience as their birth sex. It becomes unmentionable, taboo. Something they don't want to deal with. Somehow, to admit to it makes them feel less genuine. You'll never see them say "When I was a guy ..." or "I've seen it from both sides of the gender divide and .." Ask any shrink and they'll tell you erasure of your past is unhealthy.
BTW: Transvestites turn gender into an act that ends when they change clothes. Transsexuals walk the walk, 24/7. Big difference. Those who feel the need to put on an "act" are usually rabid SJWs.
s/weiner/putz/g;
Why not the ratio of males to females in elephant caretakers?
Because most women will avoid that sort of job. Oops, made a hateful sexist statement because I imply that women are discouraged from that job.
Let me recalibrate: Most women are smart enough to avoid that sort if job. Still obviously a sexist statement, but one that SJWs would approve of.
The hypocrisy of SJWs escapes them - but then again, it's about ego, not common sense.
"It's not dividing anyone."
Oh please. The first blaring announcement in the documentary is a whine about how "fewer large companies are run by women than by men named John".
But of course that is true - very few women are named John :-)