Is it true that cross-sex behavior and transgenderism in children have a biological root in the brain?
In a word, no! New developments in brain research indicate that the human brain develops with distinct male and female characteristics, but there is no data showing this drives cross-gender behavior. • Dr. Zucker explains, “Gender dysphoria (confusion) is increasingly understood [by some]…as having biological origins [in] small parts of the brain. In terms of empirical data, this is not true. It is just dogma.” 1 • Professor Eric Vilain, a UCLA geneticist specializing in sexual development, recently explained to the Atlantic Monthly that, “there is no evidence of biological influence on transsexualism yet.” If we ever do find some hard-wired biological component for gender identity, he says, “my hunch is, it’s going to be mild.”2 He indicates that family factors play a key role. • Another leading scholar in the field, George Rekers from the University of South Carolina, explains: Given the present state of our knowledge, we must tentatively conclude the main source of gender deviance i
