Hormone Exposure at Birth Determines Womens Interests?
“Women who are not exposed to male hormones during birth, are not into masculine hobbies and stuff, they are not into analyzing. Even if a woman looks feminine but is psychologically masculine or likes masculine activities, she was exposed by some masculine hormones during birth because no feminine woman who wasn't exposed wouldn't be into masculine activities or analitical stuff.”
Summary
Prenatal androgen exposure can increase the likelihood of masculine‑typical play and interest in “things” versus “people,” but the effect is modest and shows considerable individual variability. Many women with typical low prenatal testosterone still engage in masculine hobbies, analytical pursuits, or gender‑nonconforming interests, indicating that hormones at birth do not solely determine these traits. Social, cultural, and personal factors also play major roles.
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- Gendered occupational interests: prenatal androgen effects on psychological orientation to Things versus People - PubMed
Females with CAH had more interest in Things versus People than did unaffected females, and variations among females with CAH reflected variations in their degree of androgen exposure.
- ‘Born this Way’? Prenatal exposure to testosterone may determine behavior in competition and conflict - ScienceDirect
Besides its primary function in ... and McEwen, 1980, Herbert, 2015), with male fetuses producing, and therefore being exposed to, much higher levels of testosterone than female fetuses (Rodeck et al., 1985, Finegan et al., ...
- Prenatal androgen exposure and sex-typical play behaviour: A meta-analysis of classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia studies - ScienceDirect
These meta-analytic findings suggest that prenatal androgen exposure masculinises and defeminises play behaviour in humans. Broader implications in relation to sex chromosomes, brain development, oestrogens, socio-cognitive influences, other ...
- Is exposure to high levels of maternal intrauterine testosterone a causal factor common to male sex, autism, gender dysphoria, and non-right-handedness? - ScienceDirect
Indeed, in a normal healthy sample of children, high levels of prenatal testosterone were associated with male-typical play in both sexes [1]. Thus, it seems reasonable, provisionally at least, to propose that there is an optimum intrauterine testosterone level below which there is a normal ...
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- Gendered Occupational Interests: Prenatal Androgen Effects on Psychological Orientation to Things Versus People - PMC
There was considerable within-group variability, as shown in Figure 2. We examined whether variability among individuals with CAH was related to degree of prenatal androgen exposure. Among females with CAH, scores on Things-People were positively correlated with degree of androgen exposure, ...
- Early androgen exposure and human gender development - PMC
These studies provide some evidence suggesting that normal variability in prenatal testosterone exposure may relate to later gender-typical behavior, although none of the findings have yet been independently replicated. Regarding testosterone in maternal blood, one study found that maternal ...
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