Using AI to analyze MRI brain scans of thousands of children, researchers could predict a participant’s sex or gender based on how brain regions interacted with one another.
I always get a little antsy around this kind of stuff because eventually, it’s going to get to a point where it either gets treated as a diagnostic tool or insurance requirement for trans people accessing healthcare.
All my homies hate trans-medicalism, this will inevitably lead to a “cure” or something bullshit like that, we don’t need medical validation in the first place
Maybe we should try to “cure” all of it. If there was a pill that would “cure” my cisgenderness and make me trans, maybe it would be worth a try. Maybe I’d be happier as a woman even if I didn’t identify as one before.
Sexual preference too. Maybe I’d be happier being gay. If I could “cure” my heterosexuality, maybe my life would be more fulfilling.
It would be worth a try anyway.
Bring on the pills! Better living through chemistry!
(Obviously I’m being flippant. Any sort of “cure” would be designed to only go one way and we all know which way.)
As long as it isn’t a requirement for legal or medical procedures and is only used as a diagnostic tool to better understand oneself, it shouldn’t be too problematic, I think. If it’s used to diagnose someone without their consent is a different story, and I would hate to see medical science advancements used to perpetuate abuse rather than improve our lives.
Or insurance requirement for trans people accessing healthcare.
I’m hoping private healthcare and health insurance will be a thing of the past by the time your concerns become a reality, but that’s an extremely valid concern nonetheless.
Agreed, also, focusing on the differences becomes divisive at some point. The truth is, women and men think extremely similarly, as we are all human and humans think alike. But we ignore the greater similarities to instead push for tiny divisions. While it’s great to provide validation, neuroplasticity means that a “girl” brain can become a “boy” brain and vice versa through someone’s lifetime. Gender is also not a strict binary anyway, so how it’s determined who’s a girl and who is a boy and who’s agender or multigender - like it’s so much more complicated than a study like this.
I always get a little antsy around this kind of stuff because eventually, it’s going to get to a point where it either gets treated as a diagnostic tool or insurance requirement for trans people accessing healthcare.
All my homies hate trans-medicalism, this will inevitably lead to a “cure” or something bullshit like that, we don’t need medical validation in the first place
Maybe we should try to “cure” all of it. If there was a pill that would “cure” my cisgenderness and make me trans, maybe it would be worth a try. Maybe I’d be happier as a woman even if I didn’t identify as one before.
Sexual preference too. Maybe I’d be happier being gay. If I could “cure” my heterosexuality, maybe my life would be more fulfilling.
It would be worth a try anyway.
Bring on the pills! Better living through chemistry!
(Obviously I’m being flippant. Any sort of “cure” would be designed to only go one way and we all know which way.)
Agreed!! Biological determinism is eugenics. And it’s not true, with neuroplasticity we can change. Also, there are multigender and agender people
As long as it isn’t a requirement for legal or medical procedures and is only used as a diagnostic tool to better understand oneself, it shouldn’t be too problematic, I think. If it’s used to diagnose someone without their consent is a different story, and I would hate to see medical science advancements used to perpetuate abuse rather than improve our lives.
I’m hoping private healthcare and health insurance will be a thing of the past by the time your concerns become a reality, but that’s an extremely valid concern nonetheless.
Agreed, also, focusing on the differences becomes divisive at some point. The truth is, women and men think extremely similarly, as we are all human and humans think alike. But we ignore the greater similarities to instead push for tiny divisions. While it’s great to provide validation, neuroplasticity means that a “girl” brain can become a “boy” brain and vice versa through someone’s lifetime. Gender is also not a strict binary anyway, so how it’s determined who’s a girl and who is a boy and who’s agender or multigender - like it’s so much more complicated than a study like this.