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From what I can tell, this is not a study that's been submitted to peer review, and from a little web search I wasn't able to find any more details than on the linked page. For example, did they publish raw data, their exact methods, etc.?

Without more details, I feel compelled to disregard publications like this, because I think there's too much confirmation bias in the field.

As an example, the following linked study, which found the brains of transwomen to be broadly in the male range according to a machine learning model which they developed, have misleadingly titled their study:

> Brain Sex in Transgender Women Is Shifted towards Gender Identity

They made this claim (in the title no less) simply because the average value for transwomen was ever so slightly shifted towards the female average on the scale of their model. But the values were still in total overlap with the male range! You can see a plot of the actual data in the attached screenshot, or by following the link.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359211866_Brain_Sex_in_Transgender_Women_Is_Shifted_towards_Gender_Identity

The title is extremely misleading, and was quickly picked up by the media to claim once again that "transwomen are found to have female brains."

To my knowledge, various academics have been scrambling to identify a "female brain" and a "male brain" for decades now, many of them hoping to then find a "female brain" in transwomen and vice versa. But nothing convincing ever comes out of it.

I expect that, in a few decades, this trend of trying to find gendered brains will be looked back at in a similar light as phrenology, or other pseudo-scientific pursuits that academics fell for in the past. Another analogy I would use is Intelligent Design aka Creationism, which some people pursue as a pseudo-science for purely ideological reasons. In this case, the ideology in question would be the Church of Gender Identity, so to speak, because a lot of people are hyper-fixated on the idea that transwomen are "really" women and transmen are "really" men. Thankfully, proving this is not actually necessary to convince people to treat trans individuals with the same dignity as any other human being.