The science factors that create transgender people.
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Factors in transgender causation. Why are people transgender? Dana Bevan, The Transgender Scientist identifies 4 factors. They involve genetics, epigenetics, Western culture, and early childhood learning. This episode provides a top-level description of the 4 factors which will be detailed in subsequent episodes.
Early in this century, neuroanatomists and neurophysiologists began to look for places and functions in the brain that were different in transgender people from non-transgender people. The results of their efforts indicate that there are several structures and mechanisms that are different, some...
Published 02/25/19
Transgender Transition: Breast Enhancement Surgery. This episode explains why transitioning transwomen go on hormone therapy and why breast enhancement surgery is often needed. Transwomen want to look like other women and wear feminine clothing but this requires hormone therapy to reshape the...
Published 09/22/18