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[–] bootleg@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

You could have just Googled this if you just wanted an answer...

If anyone doesn't want to give Reddit any kind of traffic, the answer is this:

There have been studies done on dead transgender people that demonstrate that trans people have differing brain structures; a trans woman's brain will have many (but not all) of the features that a cisgender woman's brain has. The same goes for trans men.

source: https://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/131/12/3132.full

There is no such evidence for transracial people as that's not really a thing. Race is much more of an artificial concept than gender, and has little biological basis. Black people are not of a different race than white people, they simply have different genetic traits that are well within the boundary for counting as the same species.

race as a social construct: http://www.jstor.org/stable/188702?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Brain regions can be considered masculinized or feminized depending on their response to sex hormones (look up the preoptic area for a well-studied example of this); there's no such thing as a 'race hormone' that can 'blacken' or 'whiten' brain regions.

estrogen modulates neuronal movements within the developing preoptic area/anterior hypothalamus: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2295210/

[–] TheLamb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 7 hours ago

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[–] bootleg@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The JSTOR article seems to be loginwalled. You can get access to it from here.