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FloridaJudy

(9,465 posts)
30. That's frightening and sad
Tue May 29, 2012, 10:01 AM
May 2012

Gender is a whole lot more complicated than a lot of people think. Generally speaking, if one's missing a chromosome or has an extra, the results are catastrophic: children with trisomy 21 are not only intellectually delayed, but have a host of other medical problems. Those with trisomy 18 rarely live into their teens. And those are the chromosomal abnormalities that survive til birth. The rest are almost always miscarried early.

But mother nature plays weird games with our sex chromosomes all the time. People are walking around with XXY, XXX and XYY who are perfectly functional, although usually sterile. I've met a few women who were XO (Turner's syndrome). They look a little peculiar, but most have normal intelligence and can enjoy a normal life-span with treatment to prevent bone loss.

And then there are the cases where one's apparent gender (phenotype) is the opposite of what the genetic blue-print (genotype) indicates. Boys born with androgen insensitivity syndrome look like girls, and girls with adrenal virilizing syndrome are often mistaken for boys. I'm not even going into transgenders, where the person's brain belongs to the opposite sex.

Confining femininity to those "born women" is not only cruel, it's scientifically ignorant as well.

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That sickens me. Metatron May 2012 #1
I thought the same thing and even wrote something similar Catherina May 2012 #2
I expect to see some RadFem groups listed on SPLC as hate groups some day. Starry Messenger May 2012 #3
I hope so Catherina May 2012 #4
what the hell... Whisp May 2012 #5
I've been surprised none have been obamanut2012 May 2012 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author Warren DeMontague May 2012 #11
They infest the #feminism tag on tumblr Starry Messenger May 2012 #14
I really like this piece - Trans Feminism: There’s No Conundrum About It. Zorra May 2012 #6
Every woman Catherina May 2012 #21
Genetic purity, eh? That's ugly. qb May 2012 #7
Argh. Neoma May 2012 #9
I thought it was a matter of basic transphobia, but I guess I was mistaken Broderick May 2012 #10
It is taken as an established fact in some of these circles that mtf transpeople are really stealth Warren DeMontague May 2012 #12
Funny though. Neoma May 2012 #13
It's sadder than that; twomen aren't "real" women to these fringes REP May 2012 #16
It's very disturbing and I question the mental balance of people who think like that Catherina May 2012 #23
*Points at sig line* Neoma May 2012 #24
Lesbians transitioning to become gay men??? obamanut2012 May 2012 #29
It's "Womyn Born Womyn" last I heard and I reject this "theory" REP May 2012 #15
truly revolting maddezmom May 2012 #17
Nice of them to create their own patriarchy LadyHawkAZ May 2012 #18
That's exactly what it is. LeftyMom May 2012 #19
Matriarchies aren't any better. Neoma May 2012 #20
how ugly. nt La Lioness Priyanka May 2012 #22
Fighting back and winning Catherina May 2012 #26
Radical feminists are acting like a cult Catherina May 2012 #25
This message was self-deleted by its author Warren DeMontague May 2012 #27
So disgusting! Fearless May 2012 #28
That's frightening and sad FloridaJudy May 2012 #30
That's some pretty heinous stuff.Disgustimg. :( MerryBlooms May 2012 #31
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