RE: That Trans Thread
December 11, 2022 at 11:48 pm
(This post was last modified: December 12, 2022 at 1:11 am by Rev. Rye.)
For just one example of how those biological markers of sex don’t always align, here’s a concrete example:
You’d probably guess the person singing this song is all woman. Do you assume her karotype would be 46XX, like most women? It’s actually 46XY like most men. And, bear in mind, Eden Atwood is not a man in drag, and she’s not transgender. Thing is, she has a disorder that makes her body immune to the effects of testosterone. It’s called Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. I use the pronoun “she”, because that’s how she identifies. That’s how she’s lived her life all these years.
Here’s an interview she gave of the subject:
And here’s a more famous, but fictional example of the same condition:
(Note: it should probably go without saying that, as brilliant a doctor as House is, his attitude is not one should adopt.)
It’s worth noting that, in the intervening years since that episode of House aired, the estimate of its incidence grew to be closer to 1 in 20,000 than 1 in 150,000, so that makes something along the lines of 400,000 people on the planet who are like this. Indeed, many might not even know about it until there’s some medical issue that makes them discover it. And this isn’t even the only way those markers for sex can misalign. Indeed, the current estimate is that 1.7% of births have some intersex traits, and 0.5% of people have clinically identifiable sexual/reproductive variations.
If you see someone balking at you when you claim that sex or gender is down to one thing, Eden Atwood is a good example for understanding why.
You’d probably guess the person singing this song is all woman. Do you assume her karotype would be 46XX, like most women? It’s actually 46XY like most men. And, bear in mind, Eden Atwood is not a man in drag, and she’s not transgender. Thing is, she has a disorder that makes her body immune to the effects of testosterone. It’s called Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. I use the pronoun “she”, because that’s how she identifies. That’s how she’s lived her life all these years.
Here’s an interview she gave of the subject:
And here’s a more famous, but fictional example of the same condition:
(Note: it should probably go without saying that, as brilliant a doctor as House is, his attitude is not one should adopt.)
It’s worth noting that, in the intervening years since that episode of House aired, the estimate of its incidence grew to be closer to 1 in 20,000 than 1 in 150,000, so that makes something along the lines of 400,000 people on the planet who are like this. Indeed, many might not even know about it until there’s some medical issue that makes them discover it. And this isn’t even the only way those markers for sex can misalign. Indeed, the current estimate is that 1.7% of births have some intersex traits, and 0.5% of people have clinically identifiable sexual/reproductive variations.
If you see someone balking at you when you claim that sex or gender is down to one thing, Eden Atwood is a good example for understanding why.
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