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"Genius" is not merely IQ. In a more colloquial sense it is, but genius as I am using it means creative giftedness. Not strictly artistic, but generative. Ok, but there are more male geniuses than female, however you are defining it. And the IQ bell curve goes some way to illustrate that. Manipulation of these characteristics then, can also therefore impact sex characteristics. Someone with an overall female phenotype (secondary sex characteristics) but a male genotype, would be somewhat mixed in sex. If it were biological rather than artificial, it would be recognised as intersex. while, yes, estrogen treatments can give you more female secondary sex characteristics, does that mean that you are then "closer to the opposite sex"? I might grudgingly admit that a man with breasts is more similar to a woman than a man without. Im not sure its moved them closer to being the opposite sex, but maybe thats not the claim (although it certainly is for some people). Is sex a spectrum and intersex half way between male and female? Is intersex an imbalance or difference in dosage of of chemicals or hormones or is there something more to it? It's also worth noting the brain differences, even if only briefly. there seems to be conflicting research, and its not clear that there are any meaningful differences in male vs female brains that we can detect, other than size. |