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1) chromosome tests are useless. They set the original blueprint of what your body is, but if that original blueprint is ignored then they mean nothing. 2) As
by Dobbs 5y ago
1) chromosome tests are useless. They set the original blueprint of what your body is, but if that original blueprint is ignored then they mean nothing.
2) As the original comment mentioned this completely fails for trans men. They are often physically stronger due to the higher presences of testosterone in the body.
3) For trans women this often fails because once sufficient time is spent on oestrogen testosterone levels drop to often below cis female levels. This causes a drop in muscle mass and can lead to the "bigger body, smaller engine" problem. Additionally with trans youth who have earlier access to puberty blockers and then earlier access to hormones they may never have gone through a traditional "male" puberty.
> Telling appart men and wen isn’t even controversial in most of the world.
This is a very bad statement in many ways. At best this is a confirmation bias. You notice the trans people who you notice, therefore you don't have a good barometer of who is trans and who isn't unless they tell you. I know plenty of trans people who you would never be able to recognize.
Even for non-trans people this can be very deceptive and is very cultural dependent.
- bigphishy 5y agoWhen a fetus is exposed to testosterone ( as males are ) their physiology is fundamentally and unalterably changed.
- Smaug123 5y agoAll things lie on a spectrum: there's no binary "was exposed to testosterone in the womb", nor is there a binary "their physiology is changed or not". See, for example, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190318151730.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190318151730.h..., a paper which purports to show that females who shared a womb with males tend to have some of their life outcomes pushed towards the testosterone end of the scale.
- bigphishy 5y agoI have to correct my original comment, it's actually the presence of the Y chromosome, and consequently the reaction of androgen receptors to testosterone in the womb that causes the physiological change on the male fetus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgen_receptor#Effect_on_development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgen_receptor#Effect_on_de... This event early on in the embryo's development is tantamount to dividing males from females.