What is the contribution of the neuroscience to our understanding of gender?

How does the study of the brain help us understand transgenderism?

And how, if at all, are male and female brains different?

And would it be possible to have a male brain in a female body?

We'll answer these questions and work with our guest today, Dr. Stephen Willing.

Stephen is a physician. He's a neurological radiologist who comes with great qualifications to do this.

I'm your host, Scott Ray.

And I'm your co-host, Sean McAul.

This is Think Biblically from Tablet School of Theology at Biola University.

Steve, thanks so much for being with us. Your paper is fascinating.

It's so looking forward to getting

into some of these ways in which the neurosciences contribute to our understanding of gender.

Now, you start out with the insistence that it's almost impossible to get people to agree on the

definition of gender. Why do you think that is, and how are you defining gender? Well, Scott, up until maybe

10 years ago, it was not hard. Everybody pretty much agreed on the definition of gender, and it was

more or less equivalent with sex. You'd see that when you're filling out applications, when you're

on driver's licenses, passports, go on. Beginning a little over 10 years ago, this greater controversy

emerged related to transgenderism. And this developed with the idea that a person could have a gender

that was different from their sex, that they were independent entities and that in some people they could

be mismatched. Well, if that's a case, then you, if gender is different from sex, then what is

gender? And there's this added pressure of having to define it in terms that don't rely upon

sex. If you're really saying that gender is not sex, then you can't go back full

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