Posted by theanonymousone 17 hours ago
This kind of thing shows up all over the place in all fields of research. It’s why for example although you can see immune system differences at a population level between patients with disease X and healthy controls, you can’t in any way use it as a biomarker for an individual who might have disease X.
[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13293-026-00976-9...
My experience interacting with transgender people is that transgender men and cisgender women have a lot of things in common and visa versa, so I would expect this to follow that pattern, but it would be interesting to see it studied.
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWHTKnB0jqZD9cR0zMpNL...
also the total difference is like a second and a half out of 70.
also also a parent had to hold the child which introduces a mechanism of biasing.