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To: MacDorcha
"Biologically" would imply they looked at the chromosomes. The child is "xx" not "xy"

Sure.

But what does that prove?

If you take a female fetus and expose it to large amounts of androgens (male hormones) while it's in the womb, it will come out with a male-type brain. So it's still "biologically" a woman in the sense of chromosomes, but the brain is not like that of a normal woman.

And then it naturally follows that we should modify the body to be the same as the brain (because we can't modify the brain to change sex with our current technology, and it would probably be highly unethical to do so even if we could)

284 posted on 03/04/2005 2:27:09 PM PST by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: xm177e2

"If you take a female fetus and expose it to large amounts of androgens (male hormones) while it's in the womb, it will come out with a male-type brain. So it's still "biologically" a woman in the sense of chromosomes, but the brain is not like that of a normal woman."

The exposure to these hormones would have to be the result of their own bodies for this to occur. And since this is a "female" body and not a "male" one, the glands would secrete estorogen. This would over ride a pre-pubecent child's "male" brain.

They had a tomboy and decided to mutilate the kid to make her "normal"


291 posted on 03/04/2005 2:37:02 PM PST by MacDorcha (When I say "democratic" I don't mean "Athenian Mob Rule")
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To: xm177e2
If you take a female fetus and expose it to large amounts of androgens (male hormones) while it's in the womb

NO! Then it would come out with disfigured or ambiguous genitalia.

As usual you don't know what the hell you're talking about.

311 posted on 03/04/2005 3:22:42 PM PST by Clint N. Suhks
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