Brain Research

AN ARGUMENT FOR GENDER IDENTITY

P1. If science shows that transgender brains are more like the gender they identify as, rather than their sex assigned at birth, then laws should classify transgender individuals as the gender they identify as

P2. Science shows that transgender brains are more like the gender they identify as, rather than their sex assigned at birth

C. Therefore laws should classify transgender individuals as the gender they identify as


CONSERVATIVE COMMENTARY

The work of Professor Rippon suggests there is no clear difference between male and female brains and a paper by Mohammad Reza Mohammadi and Ali Khaleghi claims that:

[T]ransgender individuals experience change in lifestyle, context of beliefs and concepts and, as a result, their culture and behaviors. Given the close relationship and interaction between culture, behavior and brain, the individual’s brain adapts itself to the new condition (culture) and concepts and starts to alter its function and structure.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5953012/