The Biochemical Nature of Gender Identity
What do thoughts, feelings, blinking, smiling, and our preferences have in common? They’re each a unique set of biochemical reactions resulting from our deterministic programming set forth by a stochastic blend of genetics, entropy, and the nurture of cumulative environmental stimuli. The integration of all sets of reaction sequences into a unified whole represents “us”, our identity. Or at least that’s the theory discussed herein.
If we’re going to understand ourselves, and especially others who are different than us, we first need to acknowledge that our…
