Scientists discovered that removing specific molecules from developing mice can completely reverse their sex from male to female.
Scientists discovered that removing specific molecules from developing mice can completely reverse their sex from male to female.
Anti-trans bigots don’t want to hear it. Y-chromosome equals man, remember?
This study was done in the womb before society could get their grubby paws (pun intended) all over the mice and assign a gender.
Anti-trans people would see a naturally formed penis or vagina on somebody and say that’s the gender. I don’t think they care about chromosomes.
They care about chromosomes if they can throw them in a trans person’s face.
No that’s fine, they just switch to the SRY gene.
Or they just I ignore it like all those intersex XY (and other chromosomal abnormalities) people born with female genitals.
But intersex people are super rare! We definitely aren’t a wide spectrum and more common than trans people
Not sure if this is a sarcastic or genuine comment. Regardless a quick google came up with these estimates.
intersex 0.018% or 1.7% depending on what you include in the definition of intersex. transgender: 0.5%
So depending on your definition of intersex it can be 3 times as many intersected people compared to transgender or 28 times as many transgender compared to intersex.
Imo it’s very likely a big intersection in these two subpopulations.
transgender 1 in 250 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5227946/
intersex: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/