The Science of Being Transgender ft. Gigi Gorgeous
What can science teach us about gender identity and dysphoria?
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Further Reading/References
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK9967/
http://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/xx-male-syndrome-0
https://academic.oup.com/endo/article/142/8/3281/2988779
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/males-and-females-differ-in-specific-brain-structures
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3896179/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4350266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21334362
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4350266/
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/917990-overview#a4
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7477289
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22941717
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4037295/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10983252
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17765230
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23398495
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/AFSP-Williams-Suicide-Report-Final.pdf
https://globalnews.ca/news/3648571/transgender-gene-study/
http://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/transgender.aspx
http://www.bu.edu/research/articles/lgbt-issues-stem-diversity/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26511-out-in-the-open-is-science-lgbt-friendly/
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/remembering-the-transgender-scientist-who-changed-our-understanding-of-the-brain/549458/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-lgbt-biology/born-this-way-researchers-explore-the-science-of-gender-identity-idUSKBN1AJ0F0
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I'm sorry, but I still have to disagree with this video. And I have some questions:
1) How do we know the brains of trans people are supposedly identical to the gender they identify?
2)Why must transpeople act in stereotype of their preferred gender?Won't that reinforce gender roles?
3)What about those apparently diagnosed with gender dysphoria as children, but then grow out of it as they reach puberty?
4)What does this say about those who identify as "gender-fluid" or "non-binary"? What does their brains resemble?
5)Why is gender reassignment surgery recommended to those with gender dysphoria if the suicide rate actually remains the same at 41%, regardless of peer acceptance and successful hormonal treatment?
Hey kid, want sum transgender suicide?
Psychopath brain scan
https://youtu.be/B0HMhP4t3as
So its a genetic disorder….? Lol so is being a psychopath
Gigi is clearly a man
This is the most scientific vid I've seen on this subject. Very interesting. Can any1 give me a link to studies or peer reviewed papers on the subject to do further research please
The help is transitioning. I have gender dysphoria, and for me it’s transition or suicide. I’ve tried everything and I’m sick and tired of people that think saying,” gEt tHesE peOplE sOmE heLp” makes any difference, as if you support us.
Just say it, say it already. You want us to go kill our selves so you don’t have to deal with occasionally seeing us on a YouTube video you chose to click on. Say it. Or you want us to go to conversion therapy, which ends in the same result. If we go there, we hold it in until we’re married, have kids, and then people yell at US for deciding to finally be ourselves, because we were pushed into the closet one too many times.
Obviously, people who aren’t transgender care so much about us. It’s almost like a fetish or something. Regardless, ContraPoints is a YouTuber that someone may like, same with Kalvin Garrah and Blaire White. If you try to argue “XY chromosomes,” do you see a person’s face or their chromosomes when you first meet? Obviously, chromosomes are no where near as important. If we, somehow, lived in a day and age where we didn’t know about chromosomes, then what? There have already been studies supporting trans people, so if there was a part of the brain that just read our true gender, would all of you back off? No. No matter whether or not chromosomes existed, you all would still find something to hate on us about. Even if there was nothing but your own bigotry, you would use that.
Quit using your bible or you science textbook from middle school to denounce trans people, just understand gender dysphoria and how, mentally, transgender people live happy lives if everyone would just accept them. Countries where transgender people are already accepted have low suicide rates, while other places that do not have them drastically higher.
So stop blaming us for being ourselves, and take a look at yourselves, as that is where the real issues, the real mental illness, lies.
Guys help me fight homophobic in comment section 😤😤😤
Can someone explain non binary and gender fluidity? I can respect everyone who's nice to me it doesn't matter what they identify as but I can't completely understand why or how a person feels like they don't belong to a gender. I just want to understand that.
Hey if you're transgender and you're not loved by your family or friends just remember you have a whole community online ❤
I’m not trans or anything but I just really liked the video… that’s all. Sending love to y’all trans or not trans even the haters, even you guys need some love sometimes ❤️
When people with opinions tell you to open a textbook and the LGBTQ community pull out one written by one of their own people…
I don't support lgbtq but I still treat them like people
PS being trans is not a choice ,why would someone chose to hate to there body's.
Can you remove one second please
Tucutes: I am.. inevitable failing snapping noises
Truscum holding this video: big snap
all the transphobes in the comments make me wanna vomit…
Mental illness due to a genetic defect
Transgenderim is anti-science, FACTS
this brain physiological will be fixed in the future
Guess what! There seems to be a cure for gender dysphoria!!!
It's called transitioning.
God created science. You either believe in the Bible or you don’t. Pray for you all.
There is no such thing as transgender. It’s homosexuality nothing more or nothing less. If you was born a boy you are a boy if your born a girl you are a girl. If you choose to go through surgeries to change the outer parts of your body to be something your not that’s all your doing. Your male DNA can’t be changed or female DNA can’t be changed.
There multiple people who changed their bodies then got saved accepting Jesus Christ, the Lord saved them and forgave them of their SIN. They live a Christian life, those who reject Jesus Christ will burn in Hell for eternity.
Trans Rights Are Human Rights!
Believe everyone can do what they want and what makes them happy, but definitely is a mental illness/disorder
so then how do you tell the difference between gender dysforia and transgenderism
This video is EXTREMELY false, in the way you are misrepresenting THEORIES as FACTS! Furthermore, transgenderism is a psychological issue.
You can not choose to be transgender
I didn’t realize this was the dude from big brother
Careful there bud. God is a jealous god with wrath. Turn to Jesus and stop lying about science and biology. Transgenderism is a lie and you lie as well. God is not a laid back guy. Sin is dangerous stop lying.
🤔🤔🤔 wrong
L – Let's
G – Go
B – Bully
T – The
Q – Queers
happy this exists cuz i just hate i only hear people foaming about is it wrong or right instead of just science
God bless Transgenders they bring a breath of fresh air into this tired old world as individuals in their own right.
cough gender dysphoria cough
So, there is actually a way to tell if you are trans, like for sure
Gender dysphoria is still a mental problem. We should not be changing the world to evolve around their mental problems.
I wonder how many dry erase makers they have had to buy just for this channel 🤔
By the way, I'd recommend keeping the comment replies hidden.
Thank you SO much for making this video, you do not know how much this means to me, especially now that I am able to show this to my mom and help her understand that trans people are real and there are differences in the male and female brain 🙂
What about the trans who become Suicidal after transitioning and want to go back?