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I am female, but used to be accused, back in olden times, of thinking like a man. Probably because I am direct and logical, not terribly influenced by emotional arguments.

These day you can say the same thing about a lot of women, e.g., Ann Coulter, who is a beautiful woman but one wouldn't say "she thinks like a woman."

So, what is a female brain, and what is a male brain?

If you say, "a female brain is attracted to male bodies," personally, I'd agree with you - I am not attracted to men - but we all know that lots of men are attracted to men, yet are not women or even effeminate.

As someone who is terrible at math, I could concede (although female mathematicians would disagree) that a female brain is "bad" at math -- but my spatial abilities are off the chart (excellent), and women are also "bad" at spatial abilities.

I don't think it's easy to assign genders to brains.

What you are talking about is a person's personality, which can greatly very from person to person, even of the same family and gender.

What I am talking about is the physical differences between male and female brains.

For example, the speech center in a male brain is located on the outer front right side of the of the brain. While the speech center in a female brain is located in two places, the outer front right side of the brain and the outer front left side of the brain.

This same brain scan (CAT scan I think) can tell at what point in a person's life, he or she learned another lauguage. If it was as a child, then the speech center of the lauguage with be in the same place as the person's native lauguage. But if a person learn another lauguage as an adult, the second lauguage will be located and be offset from where the speech center of person's native language is located.

But before anyone says anything, these regions are on the outer parts of the brain and are constantly affected by horomones. So a male-to-female transsexual may have a male like speech center in the brain, but still lacked the testosterone wash at fetal development causing her to have a female core idenity deep in the brain.