• justdoit@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I just wrote a comment above but I believe OP is mixing XXY with what the comment was about, which is likely Swyer Syndrome: XY individuals with female anatomy and gonadal dysgenesis. While they have a Y chromosome, a defective sex-determining gene leads to a failure to sexually differentiate into male gonadal tissue and leads to subsequent loss of downstream sex hormone production.

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      1 year ago

      So I assume such people are identified as females at birth. But if their chromosomes indicate that they are male, what’s the gender then?

      I think it’s a male then, right? Because when a defect leads to malformations, it still is a malformation. One that people could probably live very well with.

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        If the SRY gene is broken, they’d still physically develop as female, though potentially with some abnormalities, rather than as male. Even leaving gender identity out of it, sex is still more complicated than if exists Y; then male

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        If male and female are assigned purely based on physical anatomy, does it really matter?

        No one in that person’s life would consider them male and doctors would treat them based on their sex characteristics - they may have testes but they wouldn’t be external.

        I have never been karyotyped and I’m willing to bet most people haven’t either; your sex is assumed based on your outward appearance even when your genitals are not observable.

        I really don’t think that having a Y chromosome makes you male when you literally have a vagina, you know? Especially when you could go your whole life without knowing.