Does your brain need an identity?
Does your brain need an identity? There are many studies that are looking for characteristics of a typical "male" and "female" brain...but what if there are no differences? will it change the social construct of gender that we know today? Will it make people more accepting towards gender fluid people and transgenders? Probably not. There are many studies that have been carried out ti try and secure differences between the male and female brain. One study that was carried out included 1400 people. A team of scientists looked at the brain size of 1400 people ages 13 - 85 and searched for physical differences such as variations in the seizes of the brain regions as well as the connections between them. Overall they found around 29 brain regions that appeared to be different in size for self identified males and females. They may have found these differences but hey also found that 0 - 8% of people had "all-male" or "all-female" brain features th...