Often they have a small sample size, and there are a lot of brain regions to compare, so I feel like they might be massively p-hacked/publication-biased. This is further compounded by the issue that you have to deal with androphilic vs gynephilic and HRT vs pre-HRT trans women.
I also find them hard to read, including the justifications and methods they use. This might partly be due to me not being sufficiently familiar with neuroscience, but I don’t trust them enough to accept this as the explanation.
Also I’m pretty sure “caused by the brain of the opposite gender” is literally wrong/exaggeration. Multivariate studies find that pre-HRT, trans women’s brain’s overall neurological features match those of males better than those of females. (But this includes “boring” features into consideration e.g. brain size, and also is probably missing some interesting features.)
I find the neurological studies confusing:
Often they have a small sample size, and there are a lot of brain regions to compare, so I feel like they might be massively p-hacked/publication-biased. This is further compounded by the issue that you have to deal with androphilic vs gynephilic and HRT vs pre-HRT trans women.
I also find them hard to read, including the justifications and methods they use. This might partly be due to me not being sufficiently familiar with neuroscience, but I don’t trust them enough to accept this as the explanation.
Also I’m pretty sure “caused by the brain of the opposite gender” is literally wrong/exaggeration. Multivariate studies find that pre-HRT, trans women’s brain’s overall neurological features match those of males better than those of females. (But this includes “boring” features into consideration e.g. brain size, and also is probably missing some interesting features.)
Some examples:
https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/30/3/1345/5542405
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25720349/
(I think there were 2 more but I am too lazy to dig them up.)