Women's Rights

[Rev. Rye]

A male who lacks the one thing you said literally defines a male, to the extent that you said any differences in anything else in no way alters whether or not one is male or female.

The article you linked to is entirely about male infertility. Lose of the sperm producing function does not mean one ceases to be of the kind that would produce sperm in the absence of disorder. A post-menapausal woman is still female, yes?

And here's another case that's even stranger: some women are actually born with testes and XY chromosomes. And they're not exactly transgender; they're something stranger. Here's one of those women, Eden Atwood, telling her story, and you'd never know about it unless she explained it to you.




Her condition is Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. Basically, well, I'll let Gregory House explain it.



Admittedly:

• his terminology is ancient, 
  
• he's not quite accurate in claiming we all start out as females (it's more "undifferentiated" than "female")
  
• the odds are closer to somewhere between 1 in 20,000 to 1 in 99,000. [Somewhere between 80,000 and 400,000 cases worldwide.]
  
• Don't treat people with CAIS the way House does. Unless, of course, you actually are going to remove those testes, and even then, don't be as much of a cock as he is.
  

But it's close enough of an accurate explanation for a layman.

Eden Atwood has XY Chromosomes, she was born with testes, and despite having a lot of testosterone coursing through her veins, her body can do fuck-all with it because her androgen receptors don't work. She may be technically XY, but she can never be a man. There are treatments, but actually making those androgen receptors work is proving impossible. The treatments available today all focus on making the person in question more feminine. And even then, she'll never produce eggs because the closest thing she ever had were actually testes, and the only times ovary transplants have ever worked are between identical twins (and even on the off chance that she did have one, said identical twin would have the same condition, thus defeating the whole purpose.)