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Better at verbal skills. And that bys are better at spatial performance. So those are the ster why types, now what does the rel data show. The most recent data show actually that girls are tied with boys now in mathematical performance. Rose episode three of the charl yae rose brain series three underwritten by the shown Foundation Coming up. Funding for charlie rose is provided by american express. Additional funding provided by and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. From our studios in new york city this is charlie rose. Tonight we continue our exploration of the magnificent human brain with a look at gender identity and the biology of the brain. Gender identity ask a persons subjective experience of their own gender. It may or may not correspond to the sex assigned with them at birth. The term transgender describes someone who feels his or her body and gender do not match. It is estimated that about 700,000 transgender people live in the
Better at verbal skills. And that bys are better at spatial performance. So those are the ster why types, now what does the rel data show. The most recent data show actually that girls are tied with boys now in mathematical performance. Rose episode three of the charl yae rose brain series three underwritten by the shown Foundation Coming up. Funding for charlie rose is provided by american express. Additional funding provided by and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. From our studios in new york city this is charlie rose. Tonight we continue our exploration of the magnificent human brain with a look at gender identity and the biology of the brain. Gender identity ask a persons subjective experience of their own gender. It may or may not correspond to the sex assigned with them at birth. The term transgender describes someone who feels his or her body and gender do not match. It is estimated that about 700,000 transgender people live in the
1997. Also here, a group of scientists norman spack of bostons Childrens Hospital, Catherine Dulac of harvard university, Melissa Hines of the university of cambridge, and janet hyde of the university of wisconsin at madison. Im pleased to have all of them here and to begin this conversation with my colleague eric kandel. What are we going to talk about . Eric we will talk about gender identity and the biology of the brain. This is a marvelous topic and i like it particularly because it shows how Brain Science can be liberating in our life. As we understand the biology of our own gender identity better and become more comfortable with ourselves to become more empathic to somebody elses gender identity, we can understand it at age 9, 10, a person says i am in the wrong body. We really can sympathize with them and understand what is going on. But, this is not only an interesting topic, it is an unbelievably timely topic. When we began talking about this six months ago, it was not on the