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OhhhJa posted...

That's a far cry from being told "some boys have girl brains." Even from a scientific standpoint that's complete bulls***.

There's a region of the hypothalamus called the sexually dimorphic nucleus which - as the name suggests - differs in size between males and females. In homosexual males, however, the size tends to be closer to that of the female one than the male one.

The significance of that isn't known yet, and I don't believe it's been found to be true for trans people (at least, I haven't heard of it), but it is an example of a male displaying neurological similarity to a female, which could easily be distilled to "some boys have girl brains" if you're talking to an audience that's likely to struggle with 10-syllable terms.

OhhhJa posted...

At the least it's a very terrible way of explaining something a lot more complex than that.

It's somewhat inaccurate when compared to the usual way of looking at and treating gender dysphoria, which is that the body doesn't match the mind, and would be better distilled to "some girls have boy bodies," but that's a much trickier concept to grasp. Using "girl brain" in place of "a feminine mind that would be more comfortable in a female body" is pretty reasonable.

OhhhJa posted...

And it doesn't really have any place being explained like that to 5 year olds that barely understand that boys and girls have different anatomy

Pretty sure most five-year-olds understand that much. Maybe not the explicit details, but they can see the obvious differences between their parents, plus the obvious sitting/standing to pee thing.
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