Shade184 said:
I guess you'd be able to find out if the "genetic mindstructure" really does exist.
Actually, I wouldn't. Even if I might feel different as I would being a woman than a man it could simply be explained by the fact that as a woman I'd have higher levels of active oestrogen than testosterone in my body, which would would most likely influence my mood and by extension the way I think about certain things.
A particular good example of this would be a pregnant woman as opposed to a non-pregnant woman. A woman having gone through pregnancy will tell you that she's far from "herself" when her blood is swimming in pregnancy hormones pretty much the entire time. And everone who've had to deal with a pregnant woman and know what she's like when she isn't expecting a baby can also attest to this.
But during the pregnancy there's no significant change to the womans brainmatter. The only thing different is that hormones are being released into her bloodstream in different ways than they wouldotherwise do when she's "normal".
So, unfortunately, any anecdotal experience of being transformed from being a man to being a woman wouldn't be able to prove that the two mindsets are inherently different. Even though the average brain anatomy of men and women look different, it doesn't necessarily have to mean that our minds work differently. After all, results from testing the brain of a stable family man and a homicidal maniac can look perfectly the same (which they actually have done during an experiment conducted, although I can't remember where they did it at this time).
Two male brains with no visible deformities to the anatomy or hormonal levels, yet INFINITELY different behavioural patterns in the sense that one is a caretaker and provider of his own children and a loving husband, while the other is a serial killer.
That tells us that our brains are still pretty uncharted territory. We're way off the edge of the map and here be dragons and all manner of strange things.
