Transgender shows consciousness separate from the body?

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Are people of transgender evidence that consciousness and the self are separate from the body?

[jeremyp]

No

[Walt Zingmatilder]

No

How so?

[Sebastian Toe]

Are people of transgender evidence that consciousness and the self are separate from the body?

I'm undecided.
Do you have a yes or no answer to the question?

[jeremyp]

How so?

Because there's o reason why they should be.

[Outrider]

Are people of transgender evidence that consciousness and the self are separate from the body?

I don't think so - there are no significantly discernible differences between biologically male and female brains, so there is no reason to think that gender differences should have a structural source even if we presume that consciousness does.

O.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

I'm undecided.
Do you have a yes or no answer to the question?

My response to yes/noes is always how so?

Gender used to be whatever sex you were and that dependent on Genitalia, possession of Certain chromosomes and the presence of the barr body in one's cell.

 If not attached to,⁹ controlled by, influenced by body, where is the idea of one's gender coming from?

[Walt Zingmatilder]

I don't think so - there are no significantly discernible differences between biologically male and female brains, so there is no reason to think that gender differences should have a structural source even if we presume that consciousness does.

O.

Sowhere is gender identity coming from then if not the brain which you have said is neither Male nor female?

[Outrider]

Sowhere is gender identity coming from then if not the brain which you have said is neither Male nor female?

I'm not suggesting that gender is not originating in the brain, I'm pointing out that my take is that gender isn't hard-wired into the brain, given that we can't spot significant structural differences between the brains in biologically male and female bodies.

O.