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[–]Cicerosolo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Someone help me here. They're not avtially breasts right? Like breasts are. Kre than just fatty deposits, they have complex insides that regulate a bunch of stuff whereas tranny is just fat, right?

[–]TurkishCoffee 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Nope, that's actually a thing. So, estrogen can cause the development of breast tissue in either sex. This is not the same as being so fat you have something kinda like boobs, but like, actual C cups on a skinny transwoman can be a result of hormones (might be surgery. but can be hormones. legitimately).

But this is because both males, and females, have breasts in humans. Like, the actual size/shape of them is different but the anatomy is largely there. Theoretically (and very theoretically I dont think anyone has proven this) you could get a male to lactate (at least, according to a biologist I was speaking to and it wasn't about trans issues at all) but it would be a really far from natural state. That part of sexual development is hormonally controlled and doesn't require different anatomy.

[–]TurkishCoffee 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A transwoman will never have a natural vagina, labia, clitoris, and will not with current (or forseeable future) medical technology get a fake cervix, uterus, or ovaries - those are all you gotta developmentally lack the SRY gene (CAIS wont even get you the right internal organs, so. anyhow - so, X, XX, XXX, without SRY crossover. usually XX but anyhow..assuming some other normal biological/sexual development steps as well)

[–]Cicerosolo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh yeah, I've heard that they can lactate with the right drug combination but really interestingly the stuff they secrete has no benefit whatsoever nutritionally speaking for the child. I don't really understand why but yeah, interesting