i have to agree on wanting to see the study itself. in recent years there has been such an effort to quantify and equate. i am also unsure how i feel about it.

on one level it can be used to gain legal protection/rights, but then again it discounts/erases that people should be able and do change aspects of our lives that are "hard-wired"/genetic/etc.

pinning everything on nature also discounts the significance of nurture. i prefer a more messy complex interaction tween the two but that doesnt make for easy methods of differentiation and identification and ultimately surviellance and control, now does it?

not sure if this is the study from the article cuz due to the wonderful journalism there's no citations. but this one was published in 2001 with Vilain as one of the authors....

www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJHG/...1.html

okay, damn, so many things to say bout this. First of all, whoo-fucking-hoo that it lends some 'validity' to folks whose gender identity doesn't match up with their biological sex. But, i think the bottom line is that people don't need to be validated by science. Folks is what they is, and the point is that it ain't nobodys business to tell them that they're wrong. whew, okay and secondly, just for a second, let me point out that these characteristics linked to a specific gene described as feminine or masculine are still constructions. Just because there is a correlation does not mean that it is a cause and effect relationship. And, as evolution has shown us, biology changes through generations to meet social and environmental demands. I too would like to see the study, and i would like to see someone elses research come up with similar conclusions. And, I would like to remind Dr Whatsiznuts that even men and women who feel completeley at home in their bodies to not fit into such a neat and tidy dichotimous model of gender. Oh what a world it could be if we would let children grow up organically, even the ones with 'severe malformations', and see what their bodies mean to them all on their own.
okay, I'm done ranting now.