[ExCTCitizen]

It is possible, and more details are needed. But the rate at which you have the intersexed kids is less common than people who ask for a so-called sex-changing operations...

True, but growing up around medical people (my aunts and uncles, my dad was a nuclear Chemistist...my mom - though was a stay at home mom, had a degree, too) I know that more cases are out there and it will be growing. Do I think it is common, no, but maybe some of the so called gays might be intersexed?

with all the chemicals put into our foods, who knows if that effects the XY cells - to become XXY or XYY.

I'm not a doctor -- and I don't play on on the internet - but, I'm wondering if intersex is becoming more common.

The boy's dad is a police officer, so I don't think he's a LIBERAL...maybe the mom is...

[allmendream]

Kids with physical sex abnormalities (no indication at all that this is the case with this biologically male child)are almost never XXY or XYY. They have a problem somewhere else. It is not a matter of chromosmal misalignment during production of gamets as with XXY or XYY.

XYY are called ‘super males’ and are usually over 6 feet tall with many having below average intelligence.

XXY is called Klinefelters syndrome. They are male, but have problems.

There are also XO females, with just ONE copy of an X chromosome. They have problems as well, including that they would fail the Barr body test for being a female - that test looks for the second X in women to be a ball of chromatin.

Then there are XY females. They have a mutation in the receptor for testosterone. They look female, with above average breast size, cannot get pregnant and have no secondary body hair upon puberty, and they have below average intelligence.

All babies start development with both potentially both sets of genitalia, based upon hormone signals, one set develops and the other withers away - usually.

But when problems happen it is almost NEVER because of chromosomal problems.

Just my 0.02$

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