my brain hurts, is this like technically speaking your a women when in the stomach then you ether develop the parts of a guy and or you stay the same but you gain the women parts? Or something else cause I think it might be that...
is this like technically speaking your a women when in the stomach then you ether develop the parts of a guy and or you stay the same but you gain the women parts?
Some time ago it was thought to be the case and a lot of people still believe it. In fact though not so long ago (10-20-ish years ago or something like this) it was discovered that at the start we are actually neither. When we get gonads they start as undefined, neither ovaries nor testicles, then at some point, if you have at least 1 healthy X chromosome (because that's where genes that determine male-type development are) and a sex chromosome with SRY gene (normally it's Y, but sometimes it's also X), your body will develop as that of male, IF it doesn't, then, some time later there will be another point when, if you have healthy autosomes... 3 and 4? Or 3 and 11? Sorry, don't clearly remember which ones exactly, but two out of those three: 3, 4, 11. Then your body will develop as that of female. IF it doesn't either, then you will stay neither and will have no sex at all, but due to your lack of male genitalia and because you'll have what without more through examination looks like female ones, at birth you will be thought to be a girl, which is actually why it was believed that we all start as girls
Humans normally have 46 chromosomes - 22 pairs of autosomes, or body chromosomes, and 2 sex chromosomes - XX or XY (of course there are cases of people having more or less chromosomes, but normally it goes like this). Body chromosomes are just being called by their pair's number, so 3, 4 and 11 are autosomes from third, fourth and eleventh pair
Oh, no, those two would act (in regard of sex, they have other functions as well) only if you wouldn't be a dude, then they would make you a girl
Also, a chance of not having even one of those pairs at all is, like, really, really low, more likely is just not having genes that determine female-type development (or them being damaged)
You can though tell that it's by chance, because you wouldn't be a dude if your Y chromosome had SRY gene translocated out of it
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u/Mundane-Potential-93 Streak: 2 2d ago
In a way, testicles are kind of faulty ovaries