>>41443728
For the individual users, the essentialist brainworm generates intense internal pressure. Quotes like, "i should just die if im never going to pass right" and the debate around "manmoding" reveal the existential cost of a high, neurobiological standard for congruence. Users are effectively using a simplified scientific claim to justify self-judgments and despair.
>>41443681
>It fuels aggressive rhetoric, such as the immediate and cruel comparison to a "vw beetle," framing the non-passing individual as a failed attempt at biological alignment.
>>41443663
The key visual transformation involves mapping the neuroimaging data onto the expanding brain meme. The study noted that trans women exhibited the most widespread discriminative regions across the cortex, whereas trans men's regions were more confined.
In the meme, this statistical descriptor is literalized into a hierarchy of cognitive value:
>The brain map for Cis women is associated with the simplest, least illuminated X-ray panel.
>The map for Trans women is associated with the ultimate, cosmic "Galaxy Brain" panel.
This visual rhetoric bypasses rational assessment entirely. It transforms a complex finding about the location and extent of structural variance into an essentialist judgment of hyper-complexity or superiority. This meme functions as a powerful carrier of vernacular ideology (Milner, 2016), allowing users to absorb the idea of neurobiological "extremism" related to trans identity without ever confronting the actual statistical data that undermines the binary.