there's lots of strong statistical differences between men and women (aggression levels, crying rate, sexual preferences, etc.). have there been any studies to see if trans people are more statistically like their chosen gender, or if they remain closer to their birth sex?
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This is a very important question, but no sane scientist would publish research on it in the current political environment. It would be career suicide.
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Anecdotally, there is definitely a noticeable effect. Whether that effect moves far enough that a trans person is closer to their hormonal sex than their genetic sex in terms of various traits, I don't know of any studies done specifically on that.
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Presumably depends on the specific trait in question.
I've only seen very few studies. One concludes:
"The results suggest that transgenders’ sociosexuality is largely influenced by their sexual genotype despite their incongruent gender self-perception"
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Would be interesting to see the results of these studies pre and post cross-sex hormones
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I imagine sample size will be a huge problem. In any case, it seems like something to ask Richard Lippa about if you don't get an answer from twitter.
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Since some of these probably relate to hormones (testosterone) would think they would change with HT. Others are probably sociological—so does someone continue behavior they were raised in, or model behavior of their gender identity?
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Trans kids specifically are pretty similar to cis kids of their gender (not their sex) in one study I read. Trans adults I expect are more complicated, because socialization impacts some stuff and how much gendered socialization you get/how much it “takes” varies a lot.
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