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1. Laurelai Bailey (laurelai@mastodon.starrevolution.org)'s status on Thursday, 24-May-2018 09:52:38 UTC Laurelai Bailey

   Brain scans dont determine if you are trans or not. Only you know. I get a lot of trans folks are desperate for some kind of validation but not only is this not scientific, its dangerous. Its not scientific because they get things backwards.

   Being trans isnt caused by brain differences. The brain differences are sometimes caused by being trans. I know thats hard to understand but thats kinda how it is and being trans doesnt always mean there will be brain differences.

   So its not any kind of meaningful test.

   Its dangerous because you are handing power over who is and isnt trans to people who are not you.

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   • SelfsameSynonym (selfsamesynonym@mastodon.starrevolution.org)'s status on Thursday, 24-May-2018 13:20:14 UTC SelfsameSynonym

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     @Laurelai IMO also dangerous because once they think they found something that makes us trans, they’ll start looking for a way to “cure” us.

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   • Jess Mahler (jessmahler@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 24-May-2018 13:24:49 UTC Jess Mahler

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     • SelfsameSynonym

     @SelfsameSynonym @Laurelai We're seeing just that in autism. They've found brain stuff that is either correlative or causative for autism, but there's a huge "cure" push among autism "experts" and lots of lay folks hearing about the studies are jumpng on them "So maybe they'll find a cure soon?"

     I would be VERY wary of doing anything that could encourage that kind of thinking re: trans people.

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