What if you could change the gender of your brain?

yawha

mango salsa wrote: »

Ok that's a fair point - and I guess being a cisgendered male I don't fully understand but I think and perhaps I'm wrong on this - gender dysphoria itself isn't a bad thing but living through it can be - does that make more sense?

I would have thought that the clue is in the name, "gender dysphoria", the opposite of euphoria. My understanding is that gender dysphoria is the inherent anxiety, depression, confusion etc. associated with transgenderism, no?

I guess this can depend on the meaning and connotations you give to the word "bad" though.

mango salsa wrote: »

In my view quite a lot of that depression and anxiety are results of societal cisnormativity and internalised transphobia

Oh absolutely. But it's not all societal. Societal acceptance isn't going to stop people feeling uncomfortable about their physical sex and seeking out HRT and SRS, it would simply make it much easier to do so.

Freiheit wrote: »

As I've said before current science is almost unable to distinguish between male and female brains,apart from size. Whatever distances that do exist are a long way from being understood. Thus there is no clearly defining line between male and female brains.

I think the questions demonstrates a lack of knowledge about and aptitude for the topic. Nobody with a good understand of the field would have posted such.

Freiheit wrote: »

While I understand,I absolutely loathe the obsession with a rigid gender system,is responsible for so much mental ill health and prejudice. As though there's a need to cure those who exhibit atypical gender tendencies,the question clearly views such as pathogenic. As I said it shows a major knowledge gap and possibly intellect gap too.

I think you're being very mean. I have stated that I am not a neuroscientist, and I have not delved into much in depth research material on the subject. However, I have educated myself and seek to learn more, and I don't know how I've exhibited "a gap in intellect". I'm actually quite hurt by that remark.

Look, I know it's a bit of an outlandish question, which is in the realms of sci fi at this point, but I just wanted to provoke a discussion about the nature of gender, because I'm interested in it, and I want to learn. I'm not trying to pathogenize anyone or anything, and I don't believe I've exhibited that I believe in a rigid, binary gender system at any point.

deirdre_dub

jaffacakesyum wrote: »

However, one step further would be that everyone is born in the correct body and doesn't have to go through the pains of gender dysphoria.

You mean one step further is the eradication of transgenderism. For some strange reason, I'm not a fan of the eradication of transgendered people from the world, even if that eradication is humane.

CrystalLettuce

Gender is too integrated into who someone is. It's playing god with people's identities, treating us like computer programs. Very few transgendered people are truly unhappy with the fact that they're male/female and heart. It's the body that's the issue, and to some degree, the body can be changed. In fact the technology for giving someone a whole new body is probably technologically and financially on a rung down from such intricate work on the most complicated part of the human anatomy.

I even worry if things like curing autism might be going too far, in fact.