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For those who subscribe to the Crossdreamers.com email reminder service:Google and Feedburner are closing down their free email distribution. We are moving over to Mailchimp, a well known and trusted email service.For our subscribers the only difference will be that the email will now come from Mailchimp. You do not have to sign up again.For readers who have not made use of this service, we have added a new subscription form in the right hand column of this page.We do not share your email addresses with anyone else and we will use the email address to send you crossdreamer.com relevant information only.(If you sign up and see a snail mail address for Crossdreamers: Do not take it too seriously!)Ray Blanchard, the man behind the autogynephilia- theory, recently took part in in a YouTube livestream hosted by the British racist and white supremacist Edward Dutton. Needless to say, doing so effectively destroyed what was left of Blanchard s reputation as a researcher. But why would he do such a thing?In case you have never heard about Blanchard s two-type model of male to female transgender people, here is the su twitter version: Blanchard argues that androphilic transgender women (who are attracted to men) are effeminate homosexual men, while gynephilic trans women (who are bisexual or attracted to women) are fetishistic straight men (autogynephiles).Very few experts on trans identities believe that trans women are mentally ill these days, so his position clearly makes him an outlier in the scientific community. His model does have an effect on the lives of trans people, though, and not in a good way.I will not spend time on bunking the Blanchardian typology in this article. That has been done here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. Instead I will look at how Blanchard s actions can help us gain a better understanding of the role of science in society, and especially how it can be harnessed by bigotry.Hiding your transphobia in plain sightRay Blanchard managed to a certain extent to pass as a serious modern scientist, as long as he restricted himself to publishing in science journals, hiding his real intentions behind paywalls and science sounding jargon.Most people do not read academic journals. Moreover, the arguments, statistics and terminology used in such publications are often impenetrable to outsiders. It is therefore hard for them to see the what lies behind the insider terminology and the complex tables. Lise Eliot is out with a new interesting article on the idea that the brain is gendered (i.e. different between men and women). She refers to a new meta-study of research on biological research that, as she sees it, shows that there is no difference between male and female brains beyond size.I am a big fan of Lise Eliot, who is a Professor of Neuroscience at the Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in the US of A. Her book Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow into Troublesome Gaps and What We Can Do About It taught me a lot about modern neuroscience, and how some scientists takes a too simplistic approach to how our feeling of being gendered is created.I would argue, though, that the arguments she makes against this part of neuroscience does not prove that there is no biological component to gender identity and that transgender identities therefore must be purely psychological. More about that below.Mars vs. VenusIn a new article over at Fast Company she writes:Everyone knows the difference between male and female brains. One is chatty and a little nervous, but never forgets and takes good care of others. The other is calmer, albeit more impulsive, but can tune out gossip to get the job done.These are stereotypes, of course, but they hold surprising sway over the way actual brain science is designed and interpreted. Since the dawn of MRI [Magnetic resonance imaging, used for brain scans], neuroscientists have worked ceaselessly to find differences between men s and women s brains. This research attracts lots of attention because it s just so easy to try to link any particular brain finding to some gender difference in behavior.But as a neuroscientist long experienced in the field, I recently completed a painstaking analysis of 30 years of research on human brain sex differences. And what I found, with the help of excellent collaborators, is that virtually none of these claims has proven reliable.I have been postingtransgender news and articles over at my tumblr blogsince early 2014, and have learned a lot about that section of the transgender community in the process.Tumblr is dominated by younger people, and I can see that they for instance love positive stories about being trans and references to reputable science sources that affirm transgender identities.You can read more about this in my article"What my most popular posts on tumblr can tell us about what transgender youth are looking for"which I have posted over at Medium.(I am testing out Medium as an alternative way of making my content more well known.)The 20th century saw a dramatic rise in the number of left-handed people. Was it all part of a leftist conspiracy? Read on to find out!Right now ant-transgender activists, left and right, are trying to tell the world that the current rise in the number of transgender people is caused by a transgender conspiracy.RightLeftRightWrong tells a similar story about left-handed people:The history of the sinister left-handedIn pre-modern times left-handed people were thought to consort with the Devil. Left-handedness in women might be considered proof of them being witches. In the 19th century science and medicine were used to fight the threat of those left handed:The infamous (but influential) 19th Century physician Cesare Lambroso, who identified various facial and racial characteristics with criminal traits, turned his attention to handedness at the end of the century and the start of the next and, perhaps not surprisingly, he identified left-handedness as a mark of pathological behaviour, savagery and criminality.At the middle of the 20th century American psychoanalyst Abram Blau suggested that left-handedness was caused by perversity and the result of emotional negativism.I love James from the internet. Not only is he funny and dripping with irony, he is often entirely spot on....*Monika: Today I have invited a special guest. Most of you know her as Mika or MikaelaVille - The Adorkable Girl Next Door. She is an American social med...*However she understood completely why I should want to wear a dress of this type, and put it very succinctly, 'every little girl dreams about wearing a ...For our 20th anniversary, I had this plate and artwork commissioned because queer artists are the best. Kaffers Illustration on Insta and FB. (And yes, of ...I recently sent out my *latest email update* you can read it at that link. And if you want to receive these email updates directly to your inbox, you c... I have often felt that I use estrogen as a way of keeping the feelings of GD (gender dysphoria) at bay. The initial approach was the hormones without tr...Vegans and anti-vegans have disputed the origin of the term rape rack (see e.g. here) animal torture/murder apologists claim vegan and animal rights ac...Or is it #3 now? I'm finding it hard to tell. I'm also finding this one much harder than the last.Again, my life has still hardly changed really. I still ...Several British newspapers have reported on the FTM and MTF transgender couple, Jake and Hanna Graf, who are now expecting a child (using ...I love your work Phaylen, there was a time that I would write a lengthy reply in support of your opinions. Sadly, due to the constant barrage of people l...I am a heterosexual cis man. Since I was a young boy, it was very clear that I was attracted to women. From the moment I hit puberty I fantasized about all...Unfortunately, I am finding that this blog and my life is being used far too often as a political football to promote various agendas and the actual messag...I could be starting spiro soon. The doctor was kind of intimidating at first. I think it was because she was trying to make sure I really wanted to do this...

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