atypical gender development

• what is gender dysphoria

  this is experienced by some people who identify more with the opposite gender than with the gender they were assigned with at birth
• biological explanation - brain sex theory

  • suggests gender dysphoria is caused by specific brain structures that are incompatible with the persons biological sex
  • when studying the brains of 5 year old boys it was found that their brain was seen to be 40% larger than girls brains
  • post mortem studies of male to female transgender individuals found that their brains were a similar size to womens