My GF found this and thought it was very interesting... I agree, and wonder what folks think of this professor, he seemed pretty good, might be worth looking at more of his things...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QScpDGqwsQ

Description;

This is a snippet from 'Lecture 15: Human Sexual Behavior I' of Stanford's 'Introduction to Behavioral Biology' given by prof. Robert Sapolsky.

He mentions some of the studies I've seen discussed here before about the differences between trans and non trans individuals (I'd love to know if there is a way to detect the described differences in a living individual - might be a useful diagnostic tool to distinguish those with actual differences from those that just have "kinks"....)

It would also be interesting to see if there were differences in M-E trans.... (do we "split the difference" or do something completely different?)

Another interesting part was discussion of "phantom penis" - he says that it is very common among those losing it due to cancer, but non existent among post surgical M->F patients... I seem to recall discussions about it here where some have it and some don't....

(One could also wonder about "phantom balls" - which weren't mentioned...)

WheelyCurious

WheelyCurious wrote: Fri Sep 22, 2023 6:34 pm My GF found this and thought it was very interesting... I agree, and wonder what folks think of this professor, he seemed pretty good, might be worth looking at more of his things...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QScpDGqwsQ

Description;

He mentions some of the studies I've seen discussed here before about the differences between trans and non trans individuals (I'd love to know if there is a way to detect the described differences in a living individual - might be a useful diagnostic tool to distinguish those with actual differences from those that just have "kinks"....)

It would also be interesting to see if there were differences in M-E trans.... (do we "split the difference" or do something completely different?)

Another interesting part was discussion of "phantom penis" - he says that it is very common among those losing it due to cancer, but non existent among post surgical M->F patients... I seem to recall discussions about it here where some have it and some don't....

(One could also wonder about "phantom balls" - which weren't mentioned...)

WheelyCurious

Robert Morris Sapolsky is an American neuroendocrinology researcher and author. He is a professor of biology, neurology, neurological sciences, and neurosurgery at Stanford University. In addition, he is a research associate at the National Museums of Kenya.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sapolsky

https://profiles.stanford.edu/robert-sa ... blications

While riding around in the car yesterday, I felt the head of my non-existent dick get tingly itchy painful. So... There's that.

Rubber hand illusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYQLFl-hgts

10 Magic Tricks With Hands Only | Revealed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j6LppM5jDw

Another one the GF found - very critical of a lot of the research... The lecturer is trans, and is looking at it with a lot of emphasis on it from that viewpoint. Long but interesting.

“Neuroimaging Studies of Transgender People: A Critical Review.” - E. Kale Edmiston, PhD

Summary: Reality is messy.

Differences between trans and CIS subjects may be caused by stress, threat, social exclusion, too few subjects, nonrepresentative recruiting, using data from psychiatric screening as gender transition gate-keeping, not including CIS with matching mental health issues for comparison because trans people without issues are rare, , not considering degree of gender dysphoria, not collecting both sex assigned at birth and gender identity, not having selected among multiple facets of sex and/or gender, not including or identifying trans people when studying something else, whether interpreting results encourages harm of trans people, parental consent and outing trans kids, and other factors. Psychological measuring tools long used on CIS subjects may not work in the same way for trans subjects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2BB3mc__tk

Seems like there are a lot of videos on this topic, but I suspect that it may be a question of separating the good stuff from the garbage...

WheelyCurious