The Myth of the Trans Brain

One of the silliest stories the trans lobby likes to tell is that trans people have brains that are more like those of the opposite sex than those of their own sex.

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The latest cheerleader for this notion is Michael Walker, from leftie news outlet Novara Media. Last week, he claimed on GB News that there was scientific evidence to prove that transwomen have brains closer to those of females than males.

The context for Walker’s newfound interest in neurology was the decision by the Green Party to put forward Melissa Poulton as a candidate for a Midlands constituency. Melissa (aka Matt Viner) had inspired the social-media hashtag #BlokeInAWig, which might seem cruel had Melissa not apparently tried so hard to dress up as a character from The League of Gentlemen.

Walker’s ‘trans brain’ claim has a few flaws. For a start, even if it were true that transwomen generally have brains that are closer to those of females, how would that prevent a non-trans male throwing on a wig and saying he is trans? This theory does nothing to solve the problem of gender ‘self-ID’ being abused for any number of reasons. It’s not as if political candidates have to undergo brain scans – a fact for which the Green Party should be eternally grateful.

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