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Listen Again: The Biology Of Sex

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Epigenetics in Transegender Studies

There's a current working model that many people subscribe to, in that the genitals differentiate one way, but the brain differentiates the other way. And we think that the obvious mechanism for that to happen is through epigenetics. As carissa said, this is a working model to explain a possible biological reason for gender disphoria. But applying epigenetics to sex gender, this is pretty new. In uderum. There're a lot of reports that sometimes it's passed down through the generations, and sometimes it's not. So there're a lot of features of it that really just scream, it must beEpigenetic. That's kind of forward looking....

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