Gregory A. Clark: 'Utah politicians routinely argue for reducing government interference in family life. Overriding someone else’s self-identity is among the most egregious personal violations of all.'
But “sex” isn’t truly binary. Even in standard textbook biology, “sex” is routinely defined in multiple, different ways. See, for example, “Sexual Differentiation of the Nervous System” in Principles of Neural Science.sex refers to the presence of testes or ovaries. And “chromosomal” sex refers to the distribution of the sex chromosomes in females and males .
Importantly, someone’s neurobiological sex and gender identity don’t necessarily correspond to the other three definitions of sex. For example, consider the “sexually dimorphic nucleus of the medial preoptic area ” of the hypothalamus, a neural structure implicated in male sexual behavior. Normally, it’s muchBut what happens if newborn female rats are treated temporarily with testosterone? As adults, they exhibit male-like sexual behaviors , male-like secretion patterns for sexual hormones and male-like synaptic connections between neurons in the medial POA.
But, for both sexes, if the same treatments are delayed till just a few weeks later, the treatments don’t produce comparable changes.a study at Brigham Young University
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