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[–]MoutonelectriqueBland Straight ♀ 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

I laughed too damn hard. I wonder how many will go for the 'But I am actually intersex, bigot!' response.

[–]spanishprofanity 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

or "bUt wHaT AbOuT XY cIs wOmEn"

[–]MoutonelectriqueBland Straight ♀ 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Isn't that an extremely rare condition? Furthermore, I would be PISSED AS HELL if the TRA crowd would used something I had to live with as a gotcha.

[–]spanishprofanity 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

yep, think they found it in one woman and a line of women in her family (mother & daughter or something). it's always "what about xyz?" with them. like, we're not talking about "women with XY chromosomes," we're talking about men who ID as women 🙄

[–]MoutonelectriqueBland Straight ♀ 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Wait, a line of women? As in the mother was the carrier of the gene and the daughter developed CAIS?

Regardless, DSDs should not be used as a gotcha by men in party wigs and programmer socks.

[–]PenseePansyBio-Sex or Bust 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, those with CAIS can't be female. By definition. Even though you'd never know it without doing their karyotype, or giving them an X-ray.

CAIS = Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. Males whose bodies don't respond at all to masculinizing hormones (like testosterone) develop, from the time they're in utero, to appear female. But the key word is appear. Internally, their gonads are male-- instead of a uterus and ovaries, they have testes-- and their chromosomes are XY.

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

We report herein a remarkable family in which the mother of a woman with 46,XY complete gonadal dysgenesis

A 46,XY mother who developed as a normal woman underwent spontaneous puberty, reached menarche, menstruated regularly, experienced two unassisted pregnancies, and gave birth to a 46,XY daughter with complete gonadal dysgenesis.

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