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My degrees are in biology and psychology with a focus on neuropsychology. I highly doubt that extremely rare conditions like chimerism are more prevalent than [body] dysmorphia. And I would not take stock in research that depends on fMRI either. There's a reason it isn't commonly used for medical purposes. The fact that the color coding is arbitrary, that the diagnostic software is based on assumptions, that the resolution is not very accurate, that level of detection can vary, that the meaurment does not take into account latency, that there is no way to account for false positives, and so many other variables... Most research in this area is regularly contradictory. One study says one thing while another says something completely different. People tend to take one study and ignore those which do not support their personal views. My research team in college was given time on an fMRI. It was interesting, but hardly definitive. "Brain scan" technolgy is in it's infancy and just about everything we think we know about the brain right now could largely be wrong.
Whether you ascribe to the Kinsey scale or to plasticity, one thing tends to be true. Men are less variable than women. Your attraction to female qualities is biological . If it looks like a duck... and so on. Biology can be maniuplated and it can be fooled. Thus, the 'trap' moniker. A third person doesn't 'know' if someong is male or female until they can identify which gametes they produce. So you're being fooled, no matter the intension.
Which can lead to self doubt, confution, cognitive dissonance and even [body] dysmorphia. It's a silly notion to simply say "you're born that way" as it removes a persons agency, environmental variables and the aging process on our cells. Women's sexuality can undergo extreme changes as they mature, but men tend not to.
I acutually tried in collge. My accademic advisor said I should avoid it for the same reason. Didn't want the university to incure the wrath of political groups. I recieved top marks for my work in another area, but I somtimes regret it. He probably saved my degree and future career lol.
Anyway, sorry for the long post. It's a really interesting subject and one I still read up on when possible. There is very little actual good research being done these days as someone always seems to have an agenda. The EU is doing much better work.
