https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrogen
Do you think these maybe have more to do with causing those differences in the first place?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrogen
Do you think these maybe have more to do with causing those differences in the first place?
after that, I think the expression of these hormones is again confined to societal patterns, that keep us from understanding the real impact of these chemicals in any objective sense. it's convenient cheap & easy to convince yourself you know the impact of these chemicals, that it leads to this behavior or that, and while yes there are differences for sure, I place far more emphasis on the straightjacket of society & the limited roles it's even willing to consider than I do the impact of the hormones. I think there's many potentials for how these could be expressed that are simply denied, excluded.
that parents are so confident their kids have such strong gender biases well before the significant bio-chemical differences start to emerge, that's a huge red flag on this all. we have nearly no ability to grapple with the real impacts.
Some discussion in this paper: https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/508329
(and, yes, it's skeptical that hormones significantly influence behavioral differences between boys and girls - but it's clear that boys and girls have gone through different hormonal trajectories even early in life).