User:AAE/Chris's TRUE and HONEST Gender
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What is Chris's TRUE and HONEST gender identity? That is the question.
This topic has sparked fervent debate among the Christorian community. Kiwi Farms members overwhelmingly call Chris "he," and so does the CWCki main space. Geno Samuel called her "he" up until Chris started using she/her pronouns. The issue is even divided among trans folks covering Chris: Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints) used she/her, while Rose of Dawn used he/him.
It is my personal belief that Chris is a genuine trans woman, a "troon" if you prefer. She just has some obstacles that not all trans women have to face.
But isn't it just the autism doing the talking?
Not exactly. Most studies on the matter have found a correlation between autism and being trans, but none have actually gone beyond educated guesses when it comes to the cause.
Autistic trans folks do exist. Look up Ella Grant. She's feminine as ever as well.
But what about the extreme male brain?
It's time to delve into the world of neuroscience.
While some psychs still perpetuate the outdated "extreme male brain" theory of autism, modern brain research has found that autistic brains are actually quite androgynous. [1] While some areas of the brain are masculinized in autistics, others are feminized, such as the parts related to sensory and motor processing. If anything, autistic folks have extreme non-binary brains!
Furthermore, the differences between male and female brains are not absolute, even in cis folks: there is an 89.6% overlap between male and female brains, compared to a 31.7 overlap in terms of height. Brain sex is bimodal, not binary.[2]
In fact, for our purposes, it's pretty irrelevant. Research has found that the main difference between trans women and men pre-HRT is in the putamen.[3] This tells us that the putamen is the brain's gender center. It it what leads to neurological femaleness, and not just femininity.