Posted on 07/27/2015 11:16:37 AM PDT by dangus
Gender dysphoria is the accepted, but still politically incorrect term for people who believe that their "true" gender is somehow different from their "biological" one. The most important thing to know is that while their are complications to the simple schema that XY=male and XX = female, these have nothing to do with gender dysphoria.
[There was a recent thread posted on FR about gender dysphoria, published originally in an anti-science publication. Rather than debate the errors on that thread, I thought the best way of getting valid, respectable information to conservatives on FR would be to post a separate thread.]
Y chromosome is similar to an X chromosome, with the genetic material of a certain leg missing. You may therefore suppose that a person altogether missing a 2nd chromosome would be sexually intermediate, either a feminine male or a masculine female. You'd be wrong.
Such a person is said to have a "45,X karotype." The 45 refers to the number of chromosomes: most people have 46 chromosomes. X karotype means the person has only an "X" sex gene. This condition is often called, "Turner Syndrome"
Turner Syndrome people may lack regular periods, have smaller breasts or low waist-to-hip ratios. (In this they may resemble children more than men.) They tend to be small, lack mathematical and visual-perception skills, and can have a variety of birth abnormalities, such as a neck web connecting their ears to their shoulders,
Despite these characteristics, they are said to be psychologically "HYPER-feminine"; Lesbianism, let alone gender dysmorphia is very rarely encountered.
Neither does 47,XXY (an extra female chromosome, also known as Kleinfelter's Syndrome) cause gender dysmorphia. XXY people are males. They may have hypergonadism, which refers to decreased testicular function, which can result in "man-boobs," poor virility, osteoporosis, and a tendency to be affected by chronic conditions more commonly associated with women.
Gender dysphoria is a more complex issue among Kleinfelter's patients. Before genetic testing, doctors would sometimes see a very small penis, chop it off, and label the baby a girl. This certainly could cause gender confusion, but not that which is typically referred to "gender dysphoria:" such a "girl" is wholly accurate in feeling she's really a "boy." And yet, such gender confusion was not universally reported, perhaps because accompanying hormone treatment and socialization helped.
There does NOT, however, appear to be a super-high rate of homosexuality or gender dysphoria among XXY patients raised as men, and hormonal treatments are exceptionally effective at helping XXY patients live as fully normal men.
(There are extreme variants, such as 48, XXXY cases.)
47,XXX women are so "normal" that it's hard to judge whether health problems and abnormalities are typical, or simply whether 47,XXX is more commonly detected when these problems are present. It's been suggested that 47,XXX women MAY tend to be tall, have more scoliosis, and premature ovarian failure.
A word on natural selection and harmful genotypes: The evidence that homosexuality is not genetic is that it isn't correlated among identical twins; were purely it genetic, 100% of homosexuals' identical twins would also be homosexual. The correlation is SO low, though, that it isn't even largely genetic.
Now, suppose that people who has ONE gene for homosexuality and ONE heterosexual gene. Suppose such a person had certain qualities that helped them get familiar with women easily, and actually led to them having more sex with women. Such an advantage for being "a little gay" might be beneficial enough to outweigh the negative consequences of being exclusively gay. In fact, if people who were a little gay had 10% more offspring, the "gay gene" would spread until 10% of the population had one copy of the gene, and 1% had both.
There is no such data for gender dysphoria, nor is there any proven association between gender dysphoria and homosexuality; in fact, many people switch genders while remaining attracted to the opposite [birth] sex.
Interesting
When I was born they assigned me brown eyes but I should have got blue ones..
so I’m a trans blue eyed blond..
oh and I’m trans 35 forever...
mental illness called leftism
... their "true" gender is somehow different from their "biological" one.
Sick twisted freaks, delusional perverts, pederasts.
I’m a lot more concerned about cerebral dysphoria being demonstrated by Senate Republicans.
Meh. Gender dysphoria is likely a legitimate mental disease. The problem is that transexualism is not a cure.
Must be that dysphorics suffer from poor thinking and not endocrinopathy.
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