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To: MestaMachine
All fetuses up to that point are female. At that time, hormones that determine the sex of the child are released.

Your statement is incorrect. Sex is determined at conception by the child either getting an X or Y chromosome from the father.

What happens later and has often been misunderstood is that there is a hormone release around the seventh week and after that the child begins to show either male or female characteristics.

The hormones do not cause a child to be male or female, they happen because the child is either male or female.

55 posted on 06/28/2013 1:23:41 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Revenge is a dish best served with pinto beans and muffins)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
All fetuses up to that point are female. At that time, hormones that determine the sex of the child are released.

Oversimplification: Up to a certain point in gestation, a male fetus cannot be distinguished from a female one, except chromosomally. After all, a male fetus has both X and Y chromosomes, while a female has two X chromosomes.

All fetuses begin their development as females. This is when the X chromosome that both sexes carry influences the development of the fetus. After some point, the effects of the Y chromosome (hormones, etc.) transform the fetus into a male, while in the absence of the Y chromosome, the fetus continues to develop as a female.

In that sense, all males are genetically mutated females.

116 posted on 06/28/2013 8:18:22 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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