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 During the 2020 lockdown times, I would listen to podcasts while I made art.  I listened to hours and hours of Robert Sapolsky's lectures on human behavior.  He mentions that TIPs brains match the brains of their identified gender.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QScpDGqwsQ
I have so many thoughts I don't know where to start.
I thought there was a study on like...11 brains from dead males and it wasn't clear if they were the gay or straight kind of trans.  
I think Sapolsky says elsewhere that gay men have one tiny part of the brain that looks like more like a female brain.  
It is my understanding that there are small differences, general trends, between male and female brains but you couldn't 100% identify the sex of a dissected brain.
Sapolsky's lectures are all about differences in male and female behaviors especially around reproduction.
I teach kids and I think boys and girls are wired differently but also hate the idea of 'ladybrainz'.
Is Sapolsky a sellout because that's what it takes to keep a top spot at Stanford?