A stir has been caused by a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday. The work was described by The Washington Post. The study suggested that brains can't actually belong to the categories of ‘male’ or ‘female’, their unique features actually differ across a spectrum.

The news is very exciting for the ones who study the brain or gender. The study is a step towards validating the experiences of the ones living outside the gender binary.

While describing the significance of their work, the study researchers said their results show that despite the cause of observed sex/gender differences in brain and behavior, classification of human brains can’t be done into 2 distinct categories: male brain/female brain.

There are some things that must be pointed out. Human brains are quite complex to reduce gender differences to physical differences. Generally it is assumed that our brains decide who we are.

The study has discovered some physical characteristics that were naturally male or female, and some that both the sexes shared. There was no such physical characteristic, only shared by males, or females solely. And they discovered that most of the human beings were a medley of male and female traits. This was the source, on the basis of which they claimed that there are no different classes of male and female brain.

The main point of the study was that there were very less individuals, who had brains that were all female or all male. But, this hasn’t invalidated previous studies that discovered that on average and taken as a whole, male and female brains are not same.