Gender is often described as a spectrum between male and female, but I think it's got more than 1 dimension

A personal take on how I experience gender.

EDIT - more context would have helped as

I’m not trying to propose some simplified mathematical fits all graph here.

I’m struggling, having been out as non binary for about 5 years, with the idea that trans woman might be a better introductory starting point label for me. I understand gender as complex - far more complex than a 2 line graph sketch - but drew the graph to hone in on MY experience with fluidity. I was interested in my strength/clarity of feeling at different points.

  • @nettieOPEnglish
    3•2 days ago

    Yes of course it is. But thanks for the links, will read.

    I’m not presenting anything absolute or probably new. Just a personal take on a correlation between where my gender is and how strongly I feel it, at the different points of my fluidity.

    • @nettieOPEnglish
      3•1 day ago

      analyses [of MRIs of more than 1,400 human brains from four datasets] of internal consistency reveal that brains with features that are consistently at one end of the “maleness-femaleness” continuum are rare.

      Love this statement.💜

      • @nettieOPEnglish
        3•1 day ago

        Extracts from 2nd link that stood out to me

        most evidence to date reveals a much larger contribution of sex-related hormones compared to sex-related genes to the sexual differentiation of the rodent brain and behavior

        …

        studies revealed that feminization and masculinization are independent processes rather than two poles of a continuum

        …

        And adding to the first link:

        [brains whose features align clearly at either male or female end are] low (0% to 8%) and much lower than the number of mosaic brains (23% to 53%), that is, brains in which at least one feature was at the “femaleend” zone and one feature was at the “male-end” zone…

        • @[email protected]English
          2•1 day ago

          yes, I think it’s quite surprising to find most people have a mix of sexed traits, the whole concept of a strict binary doesn’t apply at all to the brain it seems

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 day ago

      and no worries, I suck at my delivery - I don’t mean to come across with such refutation vibes 😅 Maybe I’m just excited to share these articles and connect the dots between the current science on “brain-sex” and the ways we conceptualize or think about gender identity. I like your drawing, esp. the way it is plotted in angles rather than on a Cartesian plot - it’s just fun and quirky.