So, say for example you have a female foetus. You only need very low levels of androgens for it to develop so that the future woman would have x masculine trait. But that means that for a male foetus to have the corresponding feminine trait, it would have to have none of that 1/
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Replying to @S_h_e_e_n_a_ @FondOfBeetles and
2/ androgen at all. The female foetus would be affected by a slightly unusual level but the male foetus would need to have a very unusual level. Would that be right?
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Replying to @S_h_e_e_n_a_ @4th_WaveNow and
You are assuming that ‘feminised male brains’ must result from a lower T levels than ‘masculinised female brains’. I don’t see why that should be the case (Disclaimer: I don’t know what the data actually shows). 1/
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Replying to @FondOfBeetles @S_h_e_e_n_a_ and
If the brains of both males and females are far more sensitive to T than their reproductive systems, even slight variations from average T levels could elicit an effect. 2/
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Replying to @FondOfBeetles @S_h_e_e_n_a_ and
Which would, I think, explain your first question of: how can masculinised/feminised brains occur in the absence of masculinised/feminised reproductive systems? But again: I’m spitballing. End/
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Replying to @ClareCAIS @FondOfBeetles and
Yeah, I'd really like to see a list of gendered traits. Spencer Greenberg of Clearer Thinking did a meta analysis of studies & found that they don't really hold true most of the time.https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/how-different-are-men-and-women-really …
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Replying to @S_h_e_e_n_a_ @ClareCAIS and
Here's a list of 65 "apparently universal sex differences" that appear to be "gendered" in that some are more male-typical and some are more female-typical across (all?) cultures https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886911001930 …pic.twitter.com/gUQ3wEYokk
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But....but... testosterone is a social construct.
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