tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post4463399965655772198..comments2024-02-20T15:17:48.594+11:00Comments on A.E.Brain: Functional MagnetoResonanceTomography... and TranssexualityZoe Brainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13712045376060102538noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-87401700135915533642007-09-28T16:17:00.000+10:002007-09-28T16:17:00.000+10:00This German study is all very well but did these s...This German study is all very well but did these scientists even know that a considerable percentage of women born with transsexualism and other intersex conditions are attracted to the same sex, in other words are lesbians, or are bisexual? <BR/><BR/>Did they know about women like me and my beloved and filter us out altogether? Are we considered an inconvenience? <BR/><BR/>I agree, Zoe, that this study has far more to do with sexual attraction than the sex of one's brain. But I would love it if people like us were studied further in other ways. <BR/><BR/>I too want to know why I was born with all this... crap.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-42842639195987753162007-09-28T11:51:00.000+10:002007-09-28T11:51:00.000+10:00Congrats on finally doing something about your ter...Congrats on finally doing something about your terrible situation.<BR/><BR/>Yes, the papers <BR/>Zhou J.-N, Hofman M.A, Gooren L.J, Swaab D.F (1997)<BR/>A Sex Difference in the Human Brain and its Relation to Transsexuality. <A HREF="http://www.harrybenjaminsyndrome-info.org/pdf/BSTc.pdf" REL="nofollow">PDF</A><BR/>and <BR/>Kruijver F.P.M, Zhou J.-N, Pool C.W., Swaab D.F. (2000)<BR/>Male-to-Female Transsexuals Have Female Neuron Numbers in a Limbic Nucleus <A HREF="http://www.harrybenjaminsyndrome-info.org/pdf/brainsex1.pdf" REL="nofollow">PDF</A> <BR/><BR/>should be better known than they are.<BR/><BR/>Like you, I'm interested - not <I>quite</I> obsessed in my case, but it comes close - with finding out just What The <B>HECK</B> is going on here. <BR/><BR/>But I'm also interested in helping others. Anything I can do for you, just e-mail me. Even if it's only when you need a chance to vent, and there's no-one else to vent to.Zoe Brainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13712045376060102538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-56324926454999647312007-09-28T04:34:00.000+10:002007-09-28T04:34:00.000+10:00I read a study where the brains of male to female ...I read a study where the brains of male to female transsexual cadavers were compared to those of genetic men and genetic women and certain areas of the transsexual brain was much more similar to that of the genetic female than male. I think these studies are worthwhile as they do give us transwomen something to point to when being drilled by our friends and relatives who think we are just perverts and freaks. Although I gave up worrying about why I am the way I am and I gave up the shame and self loathing I lived with for so many years it would be nice to know why I'm different than my four brothers. Why was I the one who although genetically male I so much wanted to be female and I felt I was cheated. At the young age of 50 I began transition. I've been living as a woman since May and I'm so much happier about who I am now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com