The part on trans males doesn’t make that much sense. They may have male brain chemistry but I’m recalling research on finger digit ratios in transsexuals that seemed to point to transsexualism being caused by low prenatal testosterone levels across the board (2D/4D ratios were higher in transgender participants regardless of birth sex). Other studies suggest little correlation, so in the end, it’s still quite hard to say.
Aside from that, I think it’s a bit misguided to come to such conclusions based on anecdotal evidence, which is probably even less reliable owing to the general tendency where outliers of all sorts will be shared more as evidence. You don’t tend to notice the average people in your life. Outliers form a group that is neither representative of the median person, nor is it usually large enough to be statistically significant.
I am transmale, if I were to have written this post, I might have come to a completely different conclusion. I know many highly intelligent female and trans male/trans masculine, enough to form jsut as many examples provided here, my own IQ is 150 so I could also speak from my own experience. Before hormones, I was a few inches above average height and already had test levels on the high end of normal (for females in both cases), but I’m more reserved and not very driven, though that could be explained more by my upbringing than anything else.
For science, the volume of my butt is so-so, do with that what you will. In any case I actually quite like it when folks share their thoughts on the internet. Always curious to know what other people’s viewpoints are especially WRT stuff I’ve got some personal experience with.
Hey thanks much for sharing new info with me. What a nice comment to read. I was sure someone would come by and be pissed and mean as hell, but folks have been engaging in quite good faith.
but I’m more reserved
I think this might point at the central problem with my evidence. People vary in how publicly they live their lives by orders of magnitude. It could be that only 1% of math geniuses are trans women but they post / get views on Twitter 100x more. Or a similar thing in high school and the workplace. Math professors tend to live quiet lives...
Anyway, unfortunately I think this post might be kinda too toxic/hurtful for the average reader to be worthwhile overall (although nobody has mentioned that to me) and I’ll probably move it to a pastebin or something.
I think the basic question (whether hormones are fucking or helping your brain long-term) is quite important and deserves a better treatment. I might try to do that eventually.
The part on trans males doesn’t make that much sense. They may have male brain chemistry but I’m recalling research on finger digit ratios in transsexuals that seemed to point to transsexualism being caused by low prenatal testosterone levels across the board (2D/4D ratios were higher in transgender participants regardless of birth sex). Other studies suggest little correlation, so in the end, it’s still quite hard to say.
Aside from that, I think it’s a bit misguided to come to such conclusions based on anecdotal evidence, which is probably even less reliable owing to the general tendency where outliers of all sorts will be shared more as evidence. You don’t tend to notice the average people in your life. Outliers form a group that is neither representative of the median person, nor is it usually large enough to be statistically significant.
I am transmale, if I were to have written this post, I might have come to a completely different conclusion. I know many highly intelligent female and trans male/trans masculine, enough to form jsut as many examples provided here, my own IQ is 150 so I could also speak from my own experience. Before hormones, I was a few inches above average height and already had test levels on the high end of normal (for females in both cases), but I’m more reserved and not very driven, though that could be explained more by my upbringing than anything else.
For science, the volume of my butt is so-so, do with that what you will. In any case I actually quite like it when folks share their thoughts on the internet. Always curious to know what other people’s viewpoints are especially WRT stuff I’ve got some personal experience with.
Hey thanks much for sharing new info with me. What a nice comment to read. I was sure someone would come by and be pissed and mean as hell, but folks have been engaging in quite good faith.
I think this might point at the central problem with my evidence. People vary in how publicly they live their lives by orders of magnitude. It could be that only 1% of math geniuses are trans women but they post / get views on Twitter 100x more. Or a similar thing in high school and the workplace. Math professors tend to live quiet lives...
Anyway, unfortunately I think this post might be kinda too toxic/hurtful for the average reader to be worthwhile overall (although nobody has mentioned that to me) and I’ll probably move it to a pastebin or something.
I think the basic question (whether hormones are fucking or helping your brain long-term) is quite important and deserves a better treatment. I might try to do that eventually.