That Trans Thread

[Rev. Rye]

Or here’s another type of intersexuality: there’s a condition called Congenital Androgen Insensitivity. I discovered it from this episode of House:





The way it’s presented is mostly accurate: every once in a couple thousand births (the estimates run between one in 20,000 and one in 100,000), a baby with XY Chromosomes develops an inability to do anything with the testosterone coursing through their bloodstream (imagine a criminal firing an Uzi with regular bullets at Superman and you get an idea of what happens) and ends up presenting as female. Unlike in the show, it tends to be discovered either when the gonads in question herniate, or when she grows up and wonders “why the fuck hasn’t my first period come yet” and has the doctors figure it out.

And despite having XY chromosomes and (at least when said gonads are working) testosterone coursing through their bloodstream, there’s nothing medical science can do to make them normally functioning men.

Here’s the testimony of just one: