https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s13293-026-00976-9_reference.pdf
Couple notes on the study.
- weird that they used manual coding instead of eye tracking software.
- this is sold as looking at nature absent of nurture, but I do wonder if there are differences in prenatal treatment of male vs female fetuses that could be at play.
- they are trying to show that females are more interested in the face, and males are more likely to be interested in the mechanical thing, but, they needed the infants to look at the screens for long enough during a trial to count, so they had to retry multiple infants. The percentage of male infants who needed to be retrialed was significantly higher than female, suggesting that the male infants were just more likely to be looking all around rather than just at a specific screen.
Seems kind of a shaky study. It’s hard to draw conclusions because you don’t really know the motivation behind the baby’s actions.
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While interesting, we have to dismiss the fact that going pre-natal means the child is in a neutral state. The child is completely symbiotic with the mother during pregnancy and both her past and current experiences become directly transferred to the child through both her emotional, hormonal and nutritional profile, which of course is strongly influenced by the father.
Children simply do not exist separate from their parents in any meaningful capacity.
But still a difference between boy and girl. A father can’t give birth.
Neither can a woman without a man.
Well, with one famous exception.
*alleged
Now let’s analyse if the babies who grow up to be trans or nonbinary different from their cis peers or not
The responses were basically heavily overlapping bell curves that only really show a sex difference in aggregate. Of the 120ish subjects they were able to complete, if even 10% end up gender non-conforming, you probably wouldnt have enough to make conclusions.
I would think they would have to do a huge study upon birth just to get a decent number of possible trans people to determine anything and then have to wait like 20 years to continue it. Getting funding for such a study might be a problem.
Hopefully one day we can face that question without needing a motivated answer. Right now I don’t think the world is ready or can be even a little normal about it
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Isn’t what you pay attention to more about your psychology than your physiology though?
What does physiology have to do with what you give your attention to? I’m used to people not reading the article, but this sounds like you didn’t even read the headline.
