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@LisaTMullin @LokiMariaRose2 @HughEaston @AshHardell 1/ Yeah, but none of that determines gender. No link to AMAB trans really having been found in genes, as yet, the secret(s) to the difference in the BSTc (whose masculine gender is normally determined by androgen exposure shortly after birth, if not before, protecting from…
@LisaTMullin @LokiMariaRose2 @HughEaston @AshHardell 2/…reduction to smaller female neurone numbers - or, theoretically, intermediate numbers - by cell death), & perhaps differences in other centres in the Central Nervous System too, must be elsewhere. A very plausible theory is that a failure by one of more genes responsible…
@LisaTMullin @LokiMariaRose2 @HughEaston @AshHardell 3/…for resetting (demethylating) the epigenetic markers on an opposite sex parent's genes as they join & create the DNA of the new embryo may result in a greater reproduction of some of that parent's characteristics - explaining how so ofter trans girls bear a very strong…
@LisaTMullin @LokiMariaRose2 @HughEaston @AshHardell 4/…likeness🖼️ to their mother - which psychoanalysts often misread as a sign of psychological dominance by the mother. A similar gene fault could, it seems🖼️, directly prevent androgenic protection of the "male" BSTc neurones. 
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