Did you see the part where I mentioned I study this stuff (I'm a behavioural neuroendocrinologist)? Unless that comment wasn't for my benefit...

Actually, I study something similar to this (how sex hormones affect the brain) for a living :)

Well, I guess I can't really answer if gender identity is just the feeling that your genitals should look and feel a certain way, you should move a certain way, you feel that you should look a certain way to others... Or if it is more than that. But my feeling is that trans women would still want to transition even if…

I would probably argue that gender identity and gender roles are different things. There is no (g00d) scientific evidence to show that girls are biologically inclined to like pink toys. There is scientific evidence to suggest that gender identity is inborn and is probably influenced by hormone exposure before birth.…

Oh god, not again.

Sorry, but sex is not an unchangeable biological reality, because the main purpose of the sex chromosomes is to create gonads that secrete sex hormones. If you can change your hormonal status, your anatomy, etc, then on what basis is he calling Laverne a man (biologically)? Sex is obviously modifiable. And I am a real…

For the LOVE OF GOD get this woman off TV. Why do people watch her?

Who thought a photo of a bathroom line would make me feel sad?

Clearly you're backtracking since you seem to think your opinion matters quite a bit.. Or else you wouldn't have said "I just think that its not appropriate to be walking around intentionally with your undergarments hanging out in school. None of those outfits look good to me, they look like they didn't bother to pick…

Girls who are diagnosed also tend to have higher scores on the diagnostic test that Baron-Cohen developed, which maybe also suggests that some high-functioning girls are slipping through the cracks diagnosis-wise.

You mean scientist?

LOLOLOL

I assume they included males only in this study to increase POWER, not to avoid "confusing the results". I'm sure even Simon Baron-Cohen's lab has limited resources. Odd choice of words. I often find many MDs and medical scientists do not have strong training in statistics as a psychologist would. Regardless, 300 is a…

Fair enough, I'm not brave enough for it.

It's your opinion that the school dress code is just fine, which is ridiculous and makes you kind of nosey, yes.

I guess I still can't agree/see the value in that at the high school level. Maybe that's the world we live in but I don't care for it.

Actually, I'm a behavioural neuroendocrinologist who studies androgens. I am very familiar with this particular researcher's work. The lab I come from was part of an autism research group that studies the neuroimmunology/neuroendocrinology of autism. I am still quite surprised to see you say that 300 is a small sample…

Sometimes testosterone gets converted to estrogen and masculinizes the brain that way. So don't do that! That is not how estrogen works.

I'm sorry but 300 people is just NOT a small study. Do you have any idea what the n's are usually like in medical research/neuroscience? Sometimes I have groups of 4 mice. FOUR. And you can factor in gender when analyzing the data. It would only confuse things if you analyzed boys and girls WITHOUT using gender as a…

It's reasonable to not care since there is not and will be no "cure" for autism in the way we understand cures. But it's still important to understand what causes it.