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| Topic | Straight males and females, would you choose to be homosexual if it was possible |
| adjl 10/22/20 5:46:57 PM #73: | Vescreth posted... ...uhhh I mean, there are actually several different elements to biological sex. It's not just genitalia, as people tend to presume. You can get mismatches between genitalia, gonads, chromosomes, neuroanatomy, hormones... Off-hand, I can't think of any conditions that cause somebody who checks off every other box as "female" to develop a fully-functional penis (some result in "ambiguous genitalia" that may resemble a penis, but rarely a complete one), but Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome can result in a person who's almost completely indistinguishable from a biological female except that they have internal testicles and a Y chromosome (they produce the normal amount of testosterone for a male, but the body ignores it and so develops as a female). Folks with AIS pass so well as female that the condition generally isn't even diagnosed until they get well into puberty and go see a doctor to find out why they haven't had a period yet or to complain about painful sex (having no uterus results in a shallower vagina than is typical), depending on which becomes a concern first. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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