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ssjevot posted...

Fam_Fam posted...

because scientists have been able to identify when brain activity looks more like the typical brain of someone of the other sex?

Yeah, I already said that. Then you posted excerpts repeating what I already said. And again it's a comparison of averages. Not everyone with GD has a BOLD signal that would match a typical male or female's and there is great variation among male's and female's to begin with. Your entire premise is to use fMRI to gatekeep who can and can't be trans for no reason other than to justify your bigotry. There is zero reason to do it. No one in the field wants to do or would do what you are saying so the whole thing is idiotic. It's as dumb as using hippocampus activity to determine if depression is "legitimate" or whatever. You can't use a crude measure of brain activity to determine the legitimacy of complex behavior.

again, "not everyone"...I did not say everyone would display it. What I'm saying is that you have an indicator for some people, for whom this would identify as having a brain that is more like the opposite gender, and this would identify those people and mark them accordingly. Right now, we have zero people being identified in any scientific way; this would find some.

And in terms of "bold" signal...you set the threshold at whatever is appropriate to identify a deviation from what is normal for males/females and then judge accordingly. That is a parameter that can be set as appropriate.