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•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