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Amaros -> RE: MTF TS and gender roles (1/15/2009 10:29:35 AM)
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It might be easier if you think of the brain as being "sexed"just like the body - it is certainly not inconceivable, at least to me, that one might have one's body sexed one way, your brain another - much of what sexual attraction is is a function of visual, aural, olfactory signals, i.e., it's your brain telling your body how to react based on responses to external input, not the other way around.
All fetus's start out female, a jolt of hormones at a certain stage of development masculinizes the fetus or not - given all the other things that can occur in the complex and relatively precision process of gestation, I cannot imagine why anybody should think that this process is somehow immune to a certain amount of variation, mistiming, etc.
Given that physical transgenderism is not uncommon, it's not pushing the thing very far to speculate that psychological transgenderism is equally, and probably more common, but we assign gender according to our own personal responses to external data/perception, i.e., visual, aural, olfactory input, etc. - we can't see, hear, or smell your brain so we go by what we do see is all.
One can, theoretically, extrapolate physiological gender by observing behavior, while on the flip side, this is often complicated by very strict ritualistic reptilian behavioral expectations that can distort perception and result in pathological emotional responses to conflicting data - cognitive dissonance it's called, and for the most part, people will defer to their physical responses, mental response and conflict resolution tends to lag considerably, or may be altogether absent.
In truth, we all have more or less the same array of behaviors, the respective sexes will generally simply be biased towards one subset or the other, due to hormonal influence - if you have a male body and female pituitary system, you're gonna see things differently, that's all.
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