• T00l_shed@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    I’m so glad he is fixing important things like this, instead of wasting his time on housing and food and energy! /s

  • Karcinogen@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 days ago

    I thought sex was determined at time of fertilization by the chromosomes. If a sperm carrying a Y chromosome meets an egg carrying an X chromosome, won’t the resulting fetus always be male? Is that not the case?

    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
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      9 days ago

      People are pointing out is that at conception there is only one cell, the fertilized egg / zygote. So everyone would have only the “large reproductive cell” (the egg). It’s honestly so poorly written that you could also argue it’s saying everyone’s bigender too

      But as an aside, it’s actually not even true that XY guarantees someone will be assigned male at birth.People with Swyer syndrome present AFAB or intersex while having XY chromosomes

      The opposite is true for people with de la Chapelle syndrome where they have XX chromosomes and present AMAB / intersex.

      Many people with either of those never know they have XY or XX . There’s also way more possibilities than just XX and XY. You can have XXY, XXYY, just X, and more

  • dynamitechicken@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Hmmm. I’m definitely trying to figure it out.

    “Male” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell. “Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.

    At conception I was a single cell that contained both the combined small and large cells(sperm and egg). I was a fertilized cell that didn’t produce either small or large reproductive cells yet. I think that makes me neither then?

  • 4am@lemm.ee
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    9 days ago

    Kamala wanted to be the 1st woman President so Trump had to make sure he was the first instead.

  • Not_mikey@slrpnk.net
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    9 days ago

    Wouldn’t this just mean no one’s a male or a female. I get that we develop female characteristics first in utero, then go to male if the y chromosome is there in most situations, but thats later on. At conception, the only cells you’re producing are undifferentiated stem cells, not reproductive cells.

    So trump just abolished gender?