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Some gender specialist feel that the brain receives it's gender about six weeks after conception and that once this gender is set there is no changing it. X-rays of the brain show that there are differences in the areas of the brain used by men and women. In essence men and women think differently and act differently. The levels of hormones in the mother's body at this six-week period are critical in setting the gender of the brain of the fetus. If the mother is very sick or extremely stressed it can cause fluctuations in the mother's hormones.

If the mother's hormone level is high at this six-week period it causes feminization of the brain regardless of the biological sex. The same goes for women with naturally occurring high testosterone, which does occur, this causes the brain to have masculine thought patterns. This goes a long way in explaining why we have people who run the gender gamete from masculine male to transgender and from very feminine to transgender with people at every conceivable stage in between. If you look at the alphas at either end of the male and female spectrum there are extreme differences but near the middle male and female thought patterns may be more similar.

Society can often times bend the brains somewhat towards the gender of the body through a socialized regime of imposed guilt, shame and physical and mental reinforcement from piers. But if the brain is strongly set there is no changing it no matter how much physiological or social pressure is applied.

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