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[Sit Knicket @SitKnicket]

@RayAlexWilliams The games and the layers are not independend of each other though. All of them need the evo-bio-game as basis and reference because otherwise we can't even know, what we are talking about and definitions get circular.

[Sit Knicket @SitKnicket]

@datadriven_tdoc @JonniSkinner I'm glad we agree on this. The question is though: if you ask a child whether it's homophobia, thats driving their dysphoria and they deny it - would you think it reasonable to believe them?

[Sit Knicket @SitKnicket]

@datadriven_tdoc @JonniSkinner It's also likely that the interpretation and how fixed it becomes is dependend on partly innate factors like personality or tolerance for ambiguity. But that has nothing to do with some sort of a gendered soul or mismatch between the brain and the rest of the body either.

[Sit Knicket @SitKnicket]

@datadriven_tdoc @JonniSkinner It is very likely that for (pre-)gay kids it usually means that what they actually notice is that they are gender nonconforming. How they interprete that however, is dependent on the templates they are offered and how those are portrayed. What would "for its own sake" even mean?

[Sammy @NeuroSGS]

“Gender identity” is often presented as a deep, innate psychological essence that exists independently of biological sex. However, the evidence for such a claim is far less clear than is commonly assumed.

At its most basic level, what is called “gender identity” can be understood as an individual’s perception, understanding, or subjective relationship to their biological sex. Neurologically, researchers do not directly observe a “gender identity” module in the brain. Rather, they identify statistical correlations between certain brain regions, networks, or patterns of activity and individuals’ self-reported feelings, beliefs, and experiences. This is no different in principle from studying political identity, religious identity, national identity, athletic identity, or any other self-concept. The fact that a mental state correlates with brain activity does not establish that it is an innate, biologically distinct entity.

The statement that “gender identity is in the brain” therefore risks overstating what neuroscience can actually demonstrate. Every thought, belief, preference, and self-conception is represented in the brain in some form. Saying that gender identity has neural correlates tells us little more than the fact that people think about themselves in sex-related ways.

At most, biological, developmental, psychological, and social factors may influence whether an individual feels comfortable with, identifies with, or rejects aspects of their sexed body. These influences are worthy of study. However, it does not follow that “gender identity” should be treated as a separate category that supersedes biological sex in law, medicine, or public policy.

Biological sex has direct physical, reproductive, and physiological consequences that are relevant in areas such as healthcare, sport, privacy, data collection, and scientific research. Any policy framework that elevates subjective identity above these objective realities bears the burden of demonstrating why such a departure is justified. Simply asserting that gender identity is real or that it has neural correlates does not, by itself, establish that it should take precedence over biological sex in legal or institutional decision-making.

[Paul Garner @PaulGarnerWoof]

It's biology, not ideology. #MECFS #longcovid is a result of the sickness response becoming dysfunctional. The best psychoneuroimmunologists speaks. The brain is central to this-and can be influenced by expectations, emotions. https://t.co/z1V5z69gNl

[Sit Knicket @SitKnicket]

@JamesCantorPhD @jessesingal Yes. I feel like the excellent book "Bad Medicine" by @DavidWootton69 helps very much with answering that question.

[Sit Knicket @SitKnicket]

@EverydayisWedn3 @ap_schulz @PishnurgPumm Ich halte es für realitätsfern zu denken, man könnte Empathie selektiv ausschalten. Empathie hat auch eine Funktion. Sie abtrainieren, hieße, sie auch dann abzutrainieren, wenn sie nützlich ist. Es geht eher darum, andere Fähigkeiren zu lernen und auf Red Flags zu achten.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Linguistic prescription is authoritarian. It’s one of the things trans activists have used, with enormous success. Seeking to control what people are allowed to say is a hallmark of cults and totalitarian regimes.

I do not subscribe to the post modern ideas that changing language changes reality, that redefining something alters its nature, that our conception of a thing is of more importance than observable facts about the thing itself. To me, this kind of thinking is a dead end full of people pontificating and obfuscating, enjoying the sounds of their own voices while the world burns outside.

Some gender critical people seem to think that demanding we all use correct sex pronouns will return the world to sanity. This is an attempt to make the tail wag the dog. You cannot fight linguistic prescription with more linguistic prescription, and no rights campaign can succeed if its adherents are more interested in creating a purity spiral than allowing the smallest space for nuance or for the complexities of human nature and feelings.

[Dr. Sebastian Tillmann @SebTillmann]

Viele Länder haben Pubertätsblocker bei Minderjährigen drastisch eingeschränkt. Begründung: Evidenz reicht nicht aus. Mein neuer Essay zu „gut gemeint vs. gut gemacht“ in der Geschlechtsmedizin – mit Cass Report und finnischen Daten. Link im ersten Kommentar👇 #CassReport

[Sit Knicket @SitKnicket]

@mysteriouskat I used to fantazise about this - learning several languages, playing various instruments etc. But the truth is: since I'm a procastinator, with no deadline I would probably do nothing at all...

[Dr.Hegedüs @DrHegedues]

Ich habe mir dieses Video über ME/CFS angeschaut und habe dazu einiges zu sagen... Heute 19:00 Uhr.
RE: MaiThink über ME/CFS ⁨@maithinkx⁩ https://t.co/fY8IWOEpuH via @YouTube

[Rona @ronalyze]

Das streitgegenständliche Video, das ich jetzt weiterverbreiten darf... https://t.co/RsRat0TJeW

[Sit Knicket @SitKnicket]

@EdzardErnst https://t.co/zyexmDnAc4

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

Just as being good at running is disadvantageous if you run the wrong way, so being smart is a handicap if you’re irrational.

[Lucy Connolly @LucyTCWife]

I laughed so much at this. This is my life. 🙈😂

[Sit Knicket @SitKnicket]

@SebTillmann Es überrascht wenig, dass der Male Bias in den letzten Jahren verstärkt nachgewiesen werden konnte. Das Gendern selbst trägt ganz im Sinne einer selbsterfüllenden Prophezeiung entscheidend dazu bei. Ohne die Lösung hätten wir das Problem nicht (oder zumindest weniger)

[Sit Knicket @SitKnicket]

@RayAlexWilliams And what exactly follows from that? The practical purpose to classify something as pathological is to determine whether something needs treatment.