They/them | Award-winning journalist | Bylines: @thewire_in, @thehinduscience, @thenewsminute & more | Assistant Professor @kreauniversity | Opinions my own
Nov 10, 2022 • 8 tweets • 10 min read
Even if small differences exist between the brains of male and female individuals, the two are similar for the most part. So why are the differences highlighted more often?
A 2021 paper by @Lise_Eliot et al. found that other than size, sex differences in the brain were “trivial and population-specific”. That is, it concluded, the human brain *wasn’t* sexually dimorphic. /2
This is happening way too often, so here's some Pride Month advice (MAYBE a thread):
1) the Pride Month is not the only month in the year that you need to talk about diversity, equality and inclusion... (1/n)
There are 11 more months in the year when queer/trans folx suffer at the hands of a cis-heteropatriarchal society and culture, and your silence during the other months makes your efforts during the Pride Month perfunctory. (2/n)
