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What the scientists apparently found was a chunk of nerves, in the area that controls the gender identity. To a layman, like myself: The male's chunk was twice as large as the females chunk and that was a consistent difference.

In order to understand what made the specific nerve chunk the way it is, experiments were preformed on live mice. Pregnant mice were injected with testosterone (male hormones), at certain terms of their pregnancy. The hormones didn't seemed to have an effect on the mother. The young females, however, were born consistently androgenic, and when they reached sexual puberty, they would adopt male tenancies such as mounting other females.

The next step, of course, was human research. The brain slicing was done in male and female specimen, the results were coherent: There was that large nerve chunk- the male chunk twice as large as the female. The astonishing part was that they also examined transvestite and sexually-ambiguous people's brains, as well. What they found was that the sexually-ambiguous' nerve chunk size was consistent with the sexual identity, the living person adopted. In other words: A man, choosing to dress up as a woman, has half the size of the nerve-chunk, compared to a man, who choses to dress as a man.

As vague as all this is, I find it hard to argue with. Even though David Reimer was raised as a girl, we can assume his gender-determining nerve-chunk was the size that determines him male. This confused Reimer so much, he couldn't socially adapt and was rendered psychologically unstable. Gender reassignment is a cruel procedure that must be stopped.

Disclaimer: I would like to cite the program, I saw in a more accurate manner, but as I stumbled upon it, completely by accident, at someone else's house, on a station I don't usually watch, as such, I don't remember these details.

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