Comment by stavros
> I've had plenty of people tell me this or that chemical caused me to be trans.
Isn't this pretty obviously true? Some chemical in the womb caused every one of us to be or feel the gender they do.
> I've had plenty of people tell me this or that chemical caused me to be trans.
Isn't this pretty obviously true? Some chemical in the womb caused every one of us to be or feel the gender they do.
It's been shown that heavy stress in children can modify the glucocorticoid receptor gene which your brain uses for stress response. The study of this phenomenon is called Epigenetics. It's pretty intuitive once you go one layer deep: stress itself does not change your genome, but stress triggers a hormonal/chemical response which does.
It's not so trivial as you're making it out it be. But at the same time I agree that if there's a chemical influence, I would not be surprised if it's occuring in utero.
In the womb times two…
Girls are born with all their eggs, and so a pregnant woman who is having a girl is also carrying half her grandchild.
Now, from what I’ve read before about stress, heavy stress like living in a war zone can produce so much cortisol than it affects the unborn child. Given this, I suspect this could also effect a soon to be born girl’s eggs too!