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JoShmoeDropped the bomb and left.
Can someone explain the meme? I’m a little slow.
Fetuses all start as female.
But not really. They still have the Y chromosome, but the genitalia is kinda female before it fully forms
Wrong mate. Check out Swyer syndrome.
XY vs XX chromosome is meaningless, since XY females occur in nature.
We all start as female and testosterone turns half of us into men.
Plus also various genetic abnormalities that can cause people to be intersex
It’s not just X and Y chromosomes that determine sex though, from what I’ve heard (from actual biologists). I don’t know the specifics though. I wish we could have up-to-date biology facts like this taught with the basics in grade schools, but I can only imagine the uproar while hostile parents are still going to court over effing gender pronouns.
MyFairJuliaI won’t have you teach my kids about this degenerate matter!
You mean LGBTQIA+ people?
No, degenerate matter! Unless you bring me a glass of electron-degenerate matter, i won’t even entertain these made up states of matter!
Wait till you hear about the imaginary numbers they’re teaching your kids.
What happened to the good old fashioned numbers which we used to rely on?
Incorrect. Without intervention by hormone signals, literally every human fetus would develop as a “female” with all the traditional female sex organs and morphology. I believe they’d even be capable of generating eggs and carrying babies, but I’m not as confident on that.
A lot of people think that the XX or XY is determinative or definitional, but it’s always the hormones, baby.
No, hormones are necessary for female reproduction. Read about Turner’s Syndrome (one X chromosome).
Also androgen insensitivity syndrome, when cells lack testosterone receptors. The complete version results in females with no uterus.
Human embryos (and probably others) start out female, and grow the male parts a fee weeks later. There is probably someone lurking who can give better details but that’s the gist of it. Thats why men have nipples.
Blahaj_BlastAnd a scrotum seam
Omg is my seam meant to be a…
That’s right, you have a scrotussy.
Your penis is an enlarged clitoris and your testicles are ovaries that fell out.
Not if i have something to say and i do! I will undergo gender confirmation surgery to fix that!
And estrogen pilled
HolzkohlenAnd my axe!
Awesome! Thanks for explaining.
Yeah the Y chromosome doesn’t kick in until later in fetal development. It’s the reason why AMAB folks have nipples, if you’ve ever wondered, even though those nips offer no evolutionary advantage; they just develop before the X chromosome is done doing its thing.
There’s actually a surprisingly small amount of biological information stored on the Y chromosome, IIRC the vast majority lies on the X.
Tlaloc_TemporalThere’s only around 700 genes in the Y chromosome, with only about 70 actually making proteins. Compare the X chromosome with about 800 protein-coding genes and 20-25,000 total genes.
LillyPipYou pretty much nailed it.
Also, it gets much more complicated than that; at least 2% of humans are intersex, meaning they’re a mix of male and female, everywhere from outward presentation (rare) to chromosomal (more common).
It’s not just gender that’s a spectrum: sex is, too. I said ‘at least’ because it’s possible for people to go their whole lives without realising they’re intersex. 2% is huge: if you know 100 people, statistically 2 of them are intersex. Most of us know more than that.
The ‘only two genders’ thing is biologically bullshit.
About the nipples. You’re right in that we all get them by default. As I understand it the only reason males keep them is because evolutionarily it would take more energy to remove them than keep them. Basically we’re all slackers at the genetic level.
Embryos develop proto female genitalia that turns into male genitalia (or further develops into female genitalia). Iirc the seam on your testicles is where the opening closed.
The He-Man series back in the 80s always ended with little moral quips, so this is mimicking that.
The fact is that all fetuses start off assuming female, and then the presence of certain chromosomes trigger male anatomy.
Hence all males being trans if life starts at conception, as at X week development shifts to generate the male oriented organs.
At least that’s my understanding of this meme…
Thanks for the explanation! That makes more sense.
presence of certain chromosomes
well, the presence of certain hormones that are usually regulated by some genes on certain chromosomes
Good point, thanks for the correction there!
And the reception of those hormones, which may not exist or may not be functional for some people.
Turns out making beings out of trillions of cells of 100s of types (all of which have basically the same 3 or 6 billion base pair genome, yet have to act very differently) is complicated and any process has many steps, which involve various genes, receptors, signals, etc, all of which could be interrupted.
Being trans is about gender identity. This meme makes no sense
All cis gendered men are trans based on this fact.
Cis and trans are mutually exclusive
Yes, but since every male person at birth was actually “a female” at conception, that means people who are fine growing up in a male body are actually trans and the ones who want reassignment are just trying to “change back” and are therefore cis (according to the logic in this meme)
Because you’ve missed the joke.
IF life begins at conception every one is biologically female because male organs grow much later.
Only if you’re trying to say they didn’t have a gender identity yet as fetuses. That’s why it’s a meme and obviously a joke.
Trans is about how your gender identity relates to their assigned gender. If life begins at conception and you assigned gender at that point, everyone should be assigned female. Anyone who identifies as a man would have a gender that doesn't match their assigned gender and therefore would be trans.
TurduckenBasically, testosterone is one hell of a drug.
During early development the gonads of the fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the same and are phenotypically female.
Sex Begins in the Womb
Sex differences of importance to health and human disease occur throughout the life span, although the specific expression of these differences varies at different stages of life. Some differences originate in events occurring in the intrauterine environment, where developmental processes differentially organize tissues for later activation in the male or female. In the prenatal period, sex determination and differentiation occur in a series of sequential processes governed by genetic and environmental factors. During the pubertal period, behavioral and hormonal changes manifest the secondary sexual characteristics that reinforce the sexual identity of the individual through adolescence and into adulthood. Hormonal events occurring in puberty lay a framework for biological differences that persist through life and that contribute to variable onset and progression of disease in males and females. It is important to study sex differences at all stages of the life cycle, relying on animal models of disease and including sex as a variable in basic and clinical research designs.
genoxidedev1I shall make use of this whenever I shall enter discourse with the common enemy. Alas, thanks for allowing the addition of thy knowledge to me little brain. Perchance.
You can’t just say “perchance”!
Well yeah, if they were human. But that's obviously not the case since they're a vampire? per se?
Maybe they declared it.
stomp a turty
Funny enough, I don’t think the original He-Man has nipples, so this might not apply to him.
He-Man is an AMAB trans man. That’s why he gets both the “he” and the “man”. It’s an honorific.
Idk if a baby really has a gender.
baltakateiTheir gender is “baby” and their identity is “stink”.
Fetuses are regularly assigned gender, whether they have one or not (and by the time you can have a high-confidence guess at genitalia, the brain's gender might already be somewhat determined). At conception, many transphobes would try to assign gender based on chromosomes even though those aren't even used for assigning sex and certainly there is no gender given there's no brain yet.
Have you seen the real skeletor on (what was Twitter)? Similar awesome humour, dealing truths, love it. Bought myself a skeletor shirt, because of.
Nah. Not the same. That is called biology and the human evolves in a male or female naturally. On the other side you have the use of artificial hormones and operations.
Hi, just letting you know intersex people exist. Sometimes when you’re wrong, that’s an opportunity to grow as a person.
Supposedly your gender is determined at conception.
Geneticists make new discovery about how a baby's sex is determined
Medical researchers have made a new discovery about how a baby's sex is determined: it's not just about the X-Y chromosomes, but involves a 'regulator' that increases or decreases the activity of genes which decide if we become male or female.