> Taken as a whole, the science is pretty clear
I don't think it is, unless you pick and choose what you read.
For example,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender#Transsexual_people_...
mentions several studies showing no brain differences.
I don't think it is, unless you pick and choose what you read.
For example,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender#Transsexual_people_...
mentions several studies showing no brain differences.
However, and I repeat myself, as a whole - we now at around 30-40 studies most of which fall on the side of there being neurological differences in subjects with gender dysphoria. And in a few key areas we have replication of these findings too.
When you couple this together with long term treatment studies a picture starts to emerge - one of gender dysphoria being an intersex condition which response to hormone therapy and gender confirmation surgery. And most psychologists and endocrinologists now accept that when you take this approach, it is the most successful in producing happy and healthy patients.
The danger, as I see it, with your approach is that you predicate society's view of trans people on medical grounds. Being trans is a medical condition, from your perspective. Of course, being trans can be medically relevant, but we aren't talking about that here - we are talking about how society should treat them. For that, the cause is simply irrelevant, and tying it to scientific findings is risky as we don't know what science will find.