[mobilejdral]

The author also asks "If you were stranded on an island (or small hostile planetoid), what books would you want to have with you?" which I also can't answer.

I would fall into the category of someone who does research as leisure. I have been slowly unraveling the genetics behind gender dysphoria. Yes I have borrowed a few biology books from libraries, but it has mostly been reading 70 years of research papers, piecing together all the evidence to make a hypothesis, comparing it to all the research data and iterating. In the last year I have also started getting a fair number of WGS (Whole Genome Sequenced) files, and I have a whole separate pile of anecdotal that just because it isn't published doesn't mean I can ignore it either. These are about as far from books as you can get. It is something I do for leisure, so my investigation has been somewhat random, following whatever I found interating at that time including dead ends. Been doing this very open ended research for years now and at this point we have a really solid understanding of it, so the edge cases are actually now the fun stuff. I never would have made anywhere near the progress I did if I had been forced to start with reading a bunch of random unrelated biology books.

[wasabi991011]

Sounds interesting, do you have somewhere I can read some of what you've learned across your research?

[mobilejdral]

Sure, add a way to contact you to your account and I can send you over the current understanding.

[weakfish]

Also interested.