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05 Jun 2011, 11:57 pm

Ambivalence wrote:
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The "extreme male brain" theory doesn't account for where male-to-female transsexuals with autistic spectrum disorders come from. I guess they don't count me.

Yeah, quite. My guess is it's a more straightforward "yikes, my brain doesn't work like those of my cisgendered peers seem to, maybe trans- is a better fit."


Could you clarify this statement?

The extreme male brain theory doesn't really explain autism very well at all. You could just as easily pick traits that are stereotypically feminine that many autistic people seem to have and say "extreme female brain."



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06 Jun 2011, 12:02 am

It seems just another lame attempt by transgendered people to find an organic cause for their "confusion" where there isn't any such cause.



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06 Jun 2011, 12:51 pm

Fnord wrote:
It seems just another lame attempt by transgendered people to find an organic cause for their "confusion" where there isn't any such cause.


Well, I would say:

I've never known any transgender person to be confused about their gender.

This thread didn't strike me as such at all. It struck me as a question: Is there a correlation between being transgender and being autistic? I doubt anyone's looking for "autism causes one to be transgender" explanations.

As for "there isn't any such [organic] cause", here's one of many studies that have found neurological differences:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2 ... -scan.html