[AnnieBL]

The question of male and female brains is one which I have discussed to some extent with my wife who sometimes claims to have a male brain and sometimes denies it, whereas I tend to think that I have a partially female brain. If it is correct that the brain of the fetus is initially not gender differentiated, and in genetic males there is a stage in fetal development during which the brain is masculinised, then if this process fails or is incomplete, the male concerned will be wholly or partially transgendered. In such a case I don't think we are dealing with femininisation of the brain, but with failure to develop some or all of the characteristics that will develop into typical male brain functionality. So it seems to me more pertinent for males with gender issues to ask ourselves which male characteristics are missing or deficient, rather than which female characteristics we have. For women with gender variance, I presume that some parts of their fetal brain may have been masculinised, and it is reasonable to query which parts. This difference may possibly account for gender variant behaviour in females being apparently more societally acceptable than such behaviour in male. In the first case it may be seen as something added, but in the second as something missing. In my own case I find it much easier to define the typically male characteristics that are deficient or missing in my brain than to point to specifically female characteristics. On the other hand I have little difficulty in recognizing some male mental characteristics in my wife.
This approach does not conflict with the article you reference since the fetal brain characteristics probably only program how adult gender characteristics are developed responsive to the environment in which a child matures.