Eddie's cute grins made him look insane

What turned me off was Lili's wig: masculine cut on the left side, feminine curls on the right, and in either case, he still looked like a male person. Perhaps it was another attempt to show split personalities.

Idiotic would be the wrong word.

He acts like an uppity, inbred prissy twit.

He is so awkward.

I'm not much on rear-window ethics.

I have, at this stage, it's all theories. Nothing has been proven in peer approved papers. Very little research has been done so far and the few studies done have been heavily criticized by the medical community for their poor foundation, execution and replicability.

Some day we might find some kind of currently undetectable biological basis...or not, but as of today, mainstream brain science is in its infancy compared to the rest of medicine, let alone transgender brain science, and this for a very good reason: human brains are unique and can't be widely experimented on. You can experiment on different animals to figure out liver functions, lung functions etc. But not when it comes to brains, very little can be infered from working on a chimp brain that relates to human cognitive function.

The only thing that has been proven so far via identical twin studies is that: homosexuality and transgender-ism is NOT genetic. Doesn't mean it can't be biological (the jury is still out on that one from a scientific point of view), just means it's not genetic.

I doubt there will be any breakthroughs about this (re: disphoria) any time soon other than by accident (ie co finding from another study) as transgenders represent such a small part of society (despite their current constant visability because the media has decided that it's the fashionable issue of the season): no lab or university is going to spend millions on researching this as they'd never get their money back due to the size of the population affected. And these days medical research is ruled by one thing and one thing only: r.o.i.

I thought it was a wonderful, beautiful movie, but I too thought Redmayne acted too "girly." I also think it was probably the direction he was given. Constantly clutching the scarf around his neck, the coy grins, the tilted head. He even cried too much. Vikander's performance was just heartbreaking. She was begging for her husband and he flatly refused to be there for her, yet he expected her to be there for him whenever it was convenient. In the end, I'm glad he told her how lucky he was to have had such love. As Redmayne said himself, Vikander really upped his game at every turn.

"Leave me to do my dark bidding on the internet!"