[neurowned]

> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8955456/

That study, and others with similar results, do not control for sexual orientation - even though it's already well established that homosexuality correlates with some brain structures being atypical for one's sex.

In the studies that do control for sexual orientation, no such shift towards the opposite sex is found to correlate with gender dysphoria.

Instead, what has been shown are differences in structural and functional connectivity within the default mode network of the brain, which is essential for body perception and self-referential processing. See for example https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-17352-8.