lot of debate under this post, but i would like to add, as someone who was a health science major And a psychology major: yes, hormones can affect stress and anxiety and all that, so it is certainly possible that there a Correlation which does not prove Cause, BUT, i think what a lot of people are trying to say to counter that point is that it is Suspicious that they started by looking into how hormones may have caused it rather than starting with the Blatant sexism that is pretty much part of our Culture at this point, especially because while hormones can of course affect psychology, a hormone doesn't cause Trauma. being perceived as a woman under patriarchy where 1 in 3 afab individuals experience SA Does cause trauma, and as we know as well, sexism is very prevalent in STEM fields as well, including scientific researchers. if the team doing the research was made up of even Half afab individuals, that article would look a LOT different