[mads]

This cant really be a surprise, can it?

[gaganyaan]

Not so much a surprise as it is contentious. It makes it harder to accept the statement "Trans women are women", for example.

[lapcat]

> It makes it harder to accept the statement "Trans women are women", for example.

This is a statement about social identity rather than biology. Transgender people have little or no interest in opening their gray matter or genitals to public scrutiny. It's about respecting the feelings and choices of the individual.

Consider this analogy: suppose that we refused to call people "Christians" who self-identify as Christian but nonetheless ignore or even act in contraction to the teachings of Jesus Christ? As far as I can tell, this would apply to the majority of so-called Christians in the United States. (I personally refer to these people as "Old Testament Christians".)

[jose-incandenza]

Or maybe it may be related to trans people having a brain structure more similar to the other sex at birth. The article talks about the median results, it doesn't state that all new born male brains have those features, but that the median brain have them.

[shintoist]

I think maybe you've understood. The study doesn't say that all birth-assigned male brains are larger than all birth-assigned female brains. There's still variety within the group, with lots of girls with larger brains than lots of boys.

[geewee]

Does it? Nobody's arguing that trans women are female.