Doctor: This is the 'wild' difference between male and female brains - and why women are healthier, better at decisions and less likely to go to jail
I don't think he has got the whole of the story here but he has got a large part of it
A top psychiatrist has revealed one of the biggest differences between male and female brains.
Dr Daniel Amen, a brain specialist from California, studied over 200,000 SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography) scans to ascertain the key disparities between men and women.
Women have healthier and busier brains, Dr Amen explained, which means they go to jail 14 times less than men do.
The difference is largely due to women having much healthier activity in their prefrontal cortex which is responsible for forethought, judgement, impulse control, organisation, planning, empathy, and learning from the mistakes you make.
Despite the increased activity, women are also more likely to suffer depression than men.
Dr Amen spoke to Lisa Bilyeu, co-founder of Quest Nutrition, about the key differences between male and female brains.
'Females generally have healthier brains, they're busier brains,' he said. 'The limbic part of their brain is very busy - which puts them at a higher risk for depression,' he said in a video.
However, women have stronger frontal lobes which is an indicator of better decision making.
'Women go to jail 14 times less than males,' the psychiatrist said.
Bilyeu was quite shocked by the revelation. 'Is it because [women] are able to assess a danger or the consequence more than a guy?' she asked, to which the psychiatrist agreed.
Dr Amen also went on to explain that a woman's additional predisposition to empathy and care negatively impacts her lifespan.
'Married men live longer than single men, but not only do married women live shorter lives than single ones, they also die sooner,' Bilyeu said.
The psychiatrist revealed that men live longer because they have a woman caring for them.
'A man will live longer because [his wife] makes him go to the doctor and she yells when he's texting and driving.' 'But women [have shorter life spans] because of the chronic stress from men.'
Dr Amen advised that the only way to level the playing field would be if women started taking care of themselves more.
'For example, if you're on a plane, and the cabin pressure goes down, you need to put your own mask on first.' He added, 'Women don't do that. I have seen women take care of everybody else and they don't take care of themselves.'
Many were amazed by Dr Amen's findings and how males and females differ innately.
'I didn't know there was an actual physical difference in the brain!' one woman wrote. 'I always thought differences were explained by hormones.' 'This makes so much sense, and it's so important to educate people.' 'Thank you for this invaluable knowledge, this is so informative.'
But some were sceptical of the findings. 'Measuring blood flow differences between brains doesn’t necessarily correlate with higher or lower performance in cognitive certain skills.'
'Things aren't so clear cut, this is trying to explain complicated processes away.'
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America's strong-arming gender clinics REVEALED: Most parents of trans kids say they were 'pressured' into transitioning their child
A large study of parents of children who identify as transgender has uncovered worryingly large numbers who complain of 'pressure' to transition their children, even though they felt it was not in the child's best interests.
The survey of 1,655 parents, published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, found that more than half of the parents who were referred to gender therapists said they felt directed to put their kids on medical treatments or change their wardrobe.
The paper, by Northwestern University psychology professor Michael Bailey, comes amid concerns over rising numbers of young people identifying as trans and non-binary, and as Republicans push for bans on trans medical treatments for minors.
It also follows the damning testimony of a former employee of a Missouri youth gender clinic, where doctors allegedly told parents that they could either have a transgender child — or one that would commit suicide.
The responses came from parents of children who identified as trans, and who were concerned that the decision was more to do with a mental health issue, social media and peer pressure than a genuine discomfort with their gender.
They were part of an online group called Parents of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria Kids. Rapid onset gender dysphoria is part of a controversial theory that the sharp rise in trans-identifying youths is a social contagion.
Three-quarters of the trans-identifying children were biological females. Most of them came out as trans at the same time as friends and appeared to be responding to cues from social media, the parents said.
'When they turned to their trusted medical professionals for help, they were told they must affirm their child's newly-created identity and support their gender exploration, which means supporting them through social, medical and surgical transition,' the group said in a statement to DailyMail.com.
'If these parents express any doubts, or ask that their child's mental health issues be resolved first, they are warned that they are causing further emotional harm to their child — and might even drive them to suicide.'
As well as describing pressure from gender clinics, they said their children had developed emotional problems on average four years before they expressed a desire to change gender, and that transitioning made their mental health worse.
Bailey that the respondents 'tended to be socially progressive' and voiced support for LGBT persons issues, but did not believe their adolescent and young adult children were actually transgender.
'Instead, they believe these youths are being socially influenced by peers and other cultural factors to assume a transgender identity,' Bailey told DailyMail.com.
'Parents reported a lot of preexisting emotional problems for the youths — on average, the problems began nearly four years before the gender problems did. It is not surprising, then, that many parents were unhappy that the gender therapists they had been advised to see pushed for gender transition.'
The responses were gathered between December 2017 and October 2021. Most of the respondents were mothers and fathers of a trans-identifying child, though some were stepparents, grandparents or adoptive parents.
Critics have derided the survey as self-selecting. Alejandra Caraballo, a prominent male-to-female transitioner and Harvard Law School instructor, dismissed the findings as 'surveys of anti-trans parents recruited from online anti-trans sites.'
Offering sex-reassignment treatment to kids has become a frontline issue in America's culture wars.
Children who identify as trans frequently change their name, pronouns, and how they dress. Some ask for puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and even surgery.
Trans activists, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and other major US medical groups, and the Biden administration say such care can save lives among a suicide-prone group.
Some say going through the 'wrong' puberty is harmful for trans adolescents.
Opponents of trans ideology say sex is determined at birth and cannot be changed, that medical groups have been hijacked by trans activists and that politicians must step in and stop parents, doctors, or therapists from permanently harming children.
Many are alarmed by the sharp uptick in teenage girls with autism and other mental health woes seeking gender-change drugs in recent years, and of new studies linking puberty blockers to weaker bones and osteoporosis.
America has in recent weeks witnessed a series of seminal moments in the trans debate that are seeing a growing number of pediatricians, parents, politicians, and even young trans people themselves question whether affirmation-on-demand is always the best answer.
In a bombshell whistleblower testimony this month, Jamie Reed, a former employee at the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital, revealed how the clinic administered a litany of irreparable treatments to minors, often without parental consent.
Reed said doctors would ask questions like 'do you want a dead daughter or an alive son?' to 'bully' children's parents into going ahead with gender transitions — under the pretense that not doing so would make them suicidal.
The Free Press, which published Reed's testimony, on Monday published the story of Caroline, who's 14-year-old son was given a puberty blocker to stop his sexual development and relieve his psychological distress by the St. Louis clinic.
'Instead of providing relief … her son experienced a devastating decline in his mental and physical health after this intervention.
'Within a semester, [he] went from all As and Bs to a report card dotted with Ds and Fs. Many days he found it impossible to get out of bed. He missed so much school that it triggered an official meeting about his truancy that included a circuit court judge.'
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Say, Uncle Sam: Stop Paying People for Not Working
A policy question these days that has befuddled federal lawmakers is why so many millions of people have not returned to the workplace in the post-Covid era. The labor force participation rate among employable adults is near a record low today. There are at least 2 million to 4 million employable adults who could and should be working but aren’t.
Very few people with even minimal skills can credibly say they can’t find a job. Employers report some 10 million job openings. Small business owners say their biggest problem is finding competent workers.
There are many explanations for why so many people aren’t working — fear of Covid, the skills mismatch, more people taking early retirement, and so on. But a major factor is that the federal government is back to doing what it did in the 1970s and 1980s. The welfare state today is paying people not to work — even a single hour.
That problem went away in the 1990s after many states, such as Wisconsin and Michigan, began reforming their welfare systems with work requirements. Speaker Gingrich and the Republican Congress in 1996 passed a historic bipartisan welfare reform bill that President Clinton signed into law.
That law required able-bodied welfare recipients to be in a job or training/education program to qualify for welfare assistance. It also placed time limits on welfare so it would not become a way of life.
Few laws in the last half-century have had such stunning success. Here is a quick summary of the impact, as reported by a Brookings Institution welfare analyst, Ron Haskins:
No. 1: Caseloads declined by 60 percent, and the number of welfare recipients fell to its lowest level since 1969.
No. 2: Between 60 percent and 70 percent of those leaving welfare got a job.
No. 3: The child poverty rate fell every year between 1994 and 2000 because parents were working.
No. 4: The federal government saved more than $50 billion (almost $100 billion in today’s dollars).
Despite these stunning successes, President Biden eviscerated all work requirements during Covid, and they haven’t returned. The House Ways and Means Committee reports that less than half of Americans collecting welfare benefits today are working. The Biden administration opposes work requirements.
Why? Do they want to make people dependent on the government?
Getting welfare recipients back into the labor force is good for the economy and will reduce government debt. But a pro-work policy is good for those who escape welfare dependency.
Every study shows that having a job is highly associated with better health, longer life expectancy, happiness, and improvements in family conditions. Children and spouses of someone who is working are better off.
There is dignity and a sense of self-worth from working.
America is a rich nation, and we should absolutely have a safety net so that those who fall on tough times, lose a job or become disabled — and that happens to almost all of us at some point in our lives — do not go hungry or homeless or suffer from deprivation.
Yet welfare is supposed to be temporary and a hand-up, not a handout. The goal of welfare was to end poverty, not perpetuate it.
The House Ways and Means committee chairman, Jason Smith, a Missouri Republican, said that restoring work for welfare requirements is “a top priority” of his panel. It should be a top priority for our country. Let’s make work, not welfare, pay.
https://www.nysun.com/article/hey-uncle-sam-stop-paying-people-for-not-working
****************************************************A Prime minister who doesn't know what a woman is
British author JK Rowling has slapped down the New Zealand PM after he fudged his response when asked by a reporter on Monday to “define a woman”.
Asked by broadcaster Sean Plunkett to give his definition of women at a press conference on Monday, Chris Hipkins responded: “I think people define their gender identity themselves.”
Rowling, who defines herself as “pro-women,” tweeted: “In the interests of balance, someone should now ask women how they define Chris Hipkins.”
The issue was raised in the wake of protests over anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen who was forced to leave NZ after she was attacked at a rally in Auckland in March. At the weekend Ms Keen vowed to return, but attacked Mr Hipkins as a “gutless coward”.
Mr Hipkins had condemned the violence at the Auckland rally, but said most of those present exercised their right to free speech respectfully. “I think (exercising the right to free speech” is something we should celebrate,” he said.
Plunkett used recent remarks on the transgender v women issue by UK Labour leader Keir Starmer to pinion Mr Hipkins.
Mr Starmer recently told the London Times that trans rights should not over-ride the rights of women, adding: “99.9 percent of women haven’t got a penis”.
Plunkett, a right-wing broadcaster recently banned from Twitter for life, asked Mr Hipkins: “Keir Starmer has said that he believes 99.9 per cent of women do not have penises, and I know it’s a strange thing for him to say, but given recent events in New Zealand, I’d ask again: how do you define what a woman is?”
Mr Hipkins said the question had “come out of left field,” and as he wasn’t expecting it, “it’s not something I’ve formulated an answer on”.
On Tuesday Mr Hipkins stood by his earlier response. “Ultimately, I’m aware that this is a very emotionally charged issue for some people, and as a leader, I don’t want to contribute to that,” he told NZ media.
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