Although popular culture and many of the leading media organizations
have bought wholeheartedly into the idea that gender identity is
something distinct from one’s biological sex — that a man could be born
in a woman’s body or vice versa — such beliefs have no grounding in any
credible scientific evidence, according to a report published Monday in
the journal The New Atlantis.
Arizona State University professor of statistics and biostatistics Lawrence S. Mayer and John Hopkins University Medical School professor of psychiatrics Paul McHugh co-authored the report, which examined top peer-reviewed studies in the biological, psychological, and social sciences.
“Examining research from the biological, psychological, and
social sciences, this report shows that some of the most
frequently heard claims about sexuality and gender are not supported
by scientific evidence,” they noted.
Among the key findings listed by the authors was that, “The
hypothesis that gender identity is an innate, fixed property of human
beings that is independent of biological sex — that a person might be ‘a
man trapped in a woman’s body’ or ‘a woman trapped in a man’s body’ —
is not supported by scientific evidence.”
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