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Aug 8, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
“I think it’s putting a lot on the shoulders of these children,” said Dr. Eric Vilain, a pediatrician and geneticist. “It’s putting them on a path that will have a lot of medical and surgical consequences.”
There are a couple of articles which have been widely quoted as "proving" that sex is not binary, but rather a spectrum. The main article is this one: nature.com/news/sex-redef…2/
The other article quoted, which is actually a blog post based on the first is this one: scopeblog.stanford.edu/2015/02/24/sex…
May 13, 2018 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Sex is determined at fertilisation
>99% human zygotes are XX or XY
The totipotent zygote is the progenitor of all cells in the individual
All ♂️ cells have XY chromosomes
All ♀️ cells have XX chromosomes
X cannot be changed to Y
Men cannot become women embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/ind…
In mammalian primary sex determination, there is no “default state.” The formation of ovaries and testes are both active, gene-directed processes. Moreover, as we shall see, both diverge from a common precursor, the bipotential gonad ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK9967/