I Spent 32 Years Believing I Was Male. Then A Shocking Phone Call Exploded Everything I Knew.
The day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, I opened my phone to a news update saying the president had signed an executive order mandating that the government acknowledge only two sexes: male and female.
It felt like someone had walked up behind me and walloped me over the head with a phone book. I was angered by the basic misinformation and willful ignorance that this declaration promotes about an individual’s sex.
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“During male spermatogenesis, X and Y chromosomes perform their typical recombination in the pseudoautosomal regions,” she said while drawing a diagram of the complicated process on a blank sheet of paper on the table in front of me.
“But during your own development” — the student circled a portion of my father’s Y chromosome — “one gene, the SRY gene, translocated from the Y chromosome to your X chromosome. So, from your karyotype chromosomal testing you’re considered female, but you likely grew up being classified as male, given your external expression.”
It was a mouthful. I tried to repeat words back to the three of them, but it was like trying to recite a foreign language for the first time. The translocation of an SRY gene meant that some development of male sex organs had occurred. The primary implications for me were that I had external genitalia matching a stereotypical male, but my internal functioning was more blurred, including irregular hormone production and likely infertility. As I stumbled over my words, my geneticist broke down the big concepts further.
“How do you feel about the word ‘intersex’?” she asked.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/intersex-dna-test-results-gender-identity-trans_n_69d13afce4b05047ac8e9e95?origin=home-whats-happening-unit
MAGATs and Shitler are too stupid, sometimes willfully so, to understand any of this.
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