[jannet.duff]

I think he's one of the people who says 80% of trans children spontaneously outgrow it.

Yeah, just to struggle with it later on in life.

Has there ever been any studies done on the so called children that out grew it? Just to see how many still ended up with the same struggles later on in life.

[elainecd]

@ Christina......Hear, hear!

[tanysquirrel]

check this out ( i am sure some have already seen it before)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18980961

has to do with the study of hypothalamus being same size as a genetic female , in male to female transsexuals.. only problem is : to determine the size, the patient has to have their hypothalamus measured post mortem... (When they are dead).

[tanysquirrel]

so yes.. its in "our heads".. but physically, not just psychologically.

more on difference in hypothalamus :

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18056697

http://press.endocrine.org/doi/full/10.1....85.5.6564

http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/18/8/1900.full

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/02/us/stu...ality.html

http://openmindedhealth.com/2012/01/tran...n-studies/

so there seems to be countless reports and sites confirming this.. i will not add any more as it can get a bit agitating for other people on this site, and this is not my thread in particular... btw that was all links from page one of search : Transsexual hypothalamus . feel free to check out more ..

[Lotus]

Yup, there it is again,

men had almost twice as many somatostatin neurons as women

.....so, in other words, (taken together), growth hormone and brain aromatase act upon the hypothalamus that upregulates GID, (sending one down the rabbit hole so to speak). T doesn't have a chance with this combo.


Transsexuals experience themselves as being of the opposite sex, despite having the biological characteristics of one sex. A crucial question resulting from a previous brain study in male-to-female transsexuals was whether the reported difference according to gender identity in the central part of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BSTc) was based on a neuronal difference in the BSTc itself or just a reflection of a difference in vasoactive intestinal polypeptide innervation from the amygdala, which was used as a marker. Therefore, we determined in 42 subjects the number of somatostatin-expressing neurons in the BSTc in relation to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and past or present hormonal status. Regardless of sexual orientation, men had almost twice as many somatostatin neurons as women (P < 0.006). The number of neurons in the BSTc of male-to-female transsexuals was similar to that of the females (P = 0.83). In contrast, the neuron number of a female-to-male transsexual was found to be in the male range. Hormone treatment or sex hormone level variations in adulthood did not seem to have influenced BSTc neuron numbers. The present findings of somatostatin neuronal sex differences in the BSTc and its sex reversal in the transsexual brain clearly support the paradigm that in transsexuals sexual differentiation of the brain and genitals may go into opposite directions and point to a neurobiological basis of gender identity disorder. - See more at: http://press.endocrine.org/doi/full/10.1...MBdHF.dpuf

[tanysquirrel]

something a little bit different.. "grey matters" :

http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content.../2525.full

http://www.cakeworld.info/transsexualism...milarities

[tanysquirrel]

the transgender brain :

http://transascity.org/the-transgender-brain/

lots of charts and graphs and other "Lotus-Type" explanations