Guest guest Posted April 20, 1999 Report Share Posted April 20, 1999 >[Text 2247287 from COM] > >>Prsni wrote: >> You have funny conceptions of what is a woman. What makes someone >> a woman? >Vijay pai wrote: >There is one incontrovertible piece of evidence: an XX in >chromosome pair 23. It's that XX that gives real women less likely >to suffer from sex-linked diseases like hemophilia, etc., while >men are stuck with their XY pair. Sorry, not even chromosomes come in neat bimodal distributions. Here are some examples: 1) There are also people with XX who are anatomically male (there is a smidgen of the Y chromosome - a gene called SRY present on the XX) 2) There are also people with XY who are anatomically female (same SRY is missing from their Y) 3) There are also people born with XXY or XXXY (about 1/500 live male births) 4) There are also men with XYY (tall, dull, less fertile...) 5) There are anatomical females born with XO (Turner's syndrome, ovaries don't develop properly, no mestruation, no puberty etc.) 6) There are women with XXX (often retarded or mentally disturbed) 7) There are people with both XX and XY cells, e.g. Stella Walsh who won an Olympic gold medal in the 100 meter dash in 1932 (found after her death upon autopsy) etc etc. All in all there are over 70 known irregularities involving the sex chromosomes. Ys, Madhusudani dasi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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