Too many people don't realize that not everyone is genetically male/female. When babies were born that didn't appear quite male or female doctors would get parents to agree to surgery after deciding what sex the baby should be. Now with genetic testing there are so many variables that were unknown before. From an article in the Washingto…
Too many people don't realize that not everyone is genetically male/female. When babies were born that didn't appear quite male or female doctors would get parents to agree to surgery after deciding what sex the baby should be. Now with genetic testing there are so many variables that were unknown before. From an article in the Washington Post: "Well, not entirely. Because not every person with a Y chromosome is male, and not every person with a double X is female. The world is full of people with other combinations: XXY (or Klinefelter Syndrome), XXX (or Trisomy X), XXXY and so on. There’s even something called androgen insensitivity syndrome, a condition that keeps the brains of people with a Y from absorbing the information in that chromosome. Most of these people develop as female and might not even know about their condition until puberty — or even later." I watched a documentary not long ago regarding this very issue and it was eye opening. When people don't have the knowledge about these medical situations they can be convinced that people are just deciding to be transgender when there are other factors in play.
Even more common than genetic deviations are radical swings in hormone development in utero which - at least as of today - the science is building a fairly compelling body of evidence showing just how genital biology and neurobiological orientation to gender can become misaligned.
Too many people don't realize that not everyone is genetically male/female. When babies were born that didn't appear quite male or female doctors would get parents to agree to surgery after deciding what sex the baby should be. Now with genetic testing there are so many variables that were unknown before. From an article in the Washington Post: "Well, not entirely. Because not every person with a Y chromosome is male, and not every person with a double X is female. The world is full of people with other combinations: XXY (or Klinefelter Syndrome), XXX (or Trisomy X), XXXY and so on. There’s even something called androgen insensitivity syndrome, a condition that keeps the brains of people with a Y from absorbing the information in that chromosome. Most of these people develop as female and might not even know about their condition until puberty — or even later." I watched a documentary not long ago regarding this very issue and it was eye opening. When people don't have the knowledge about these medical situations they can be convinced that people are just deciding to be transgender when there are other factors in play.
Even more common than genetic deviations are radical swings in hormone development in utero which - at least as of today - the science is building a fairly compelling body of evidence showing just how genital biology and neurobiological orientation to gender can become misaligned.