[Magdalen] U.S. Warns North Carolina That Transgender Bill Violates Civil Rights Laws - The New York Times

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 5/5/16 1:54 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
> Also, since all of us are conceived female, and some only become male when
> a cascade effect of a cocktail of various enzymes works their developmental
> magic, there's not much difference if one adds one or two more chemicals to
> the dance.  We're all female to begin with.

That's not the way that I learned it. At least, 99.9% of the time, 
there's an egg and a sperm.  The sperm contains either an x chromosome 
or a y chromosome, not both.  The egg contains an x chromosome, one of 
two possibles (the mother has two matching ones, which divide to produce 
the egg.)  Conception occurs when the egg and the sperm meet: an X 
matches with a y, or with another x, so that if it happens to be a Y 
sperm, conception results in an XY (male) combination, and if it's an X 
sperm, you get an XX combination (female).  So from the moment there's a 
fertilized egg, it's either a girl or a boy, even if it's only one or a 
few cells, and you can't yet tell by looking until much later, unless 
you want to kill it and have an electron microscope handy.



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