Glitterature Review: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' Brains!

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Changing your sex changes your brain: influences of testosterone and estrogen on adult human brain structure. Copyright 2006 Hufshoff, Hileke E. et al. Journal of Clinical and Translational Endocrinology

I read/react to an article looking at MRI scans of trans and non-trans individuals before and after hormone therapy (or before and after no intervention). Spoiler alert: they didn't find a 'trans brain.' They found regular brains that reacted predictably to drugs. One of those predictable reactions was that estrogen made the male brains shrink.

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