What results from a persons biology has people say a lot about gender, and that’s where the social construct comes in, yeah.
You have the genotype, karyotype and phenotype, that may or may not be strictly related to each other depending on what happens during development in the womb.
And now I realize I’ve already started to go on a tangent that wouldn’t even address your comment anymore, so I’ll stop myself
But it’s fascinating. I’d love to get a karyogram done, to see if my chromosomes actually match what people would expect from the person I lived as up to this point.
But it’s fascinating. I’d love to get a karyogram done, to see if my chromosomes actually match what people would expect from the person I lived as up to this point.
Would you expect something non-standard, or rather - would you be disappointed if it were one way or the other?
What results from a persons biology has people say a lot about gender, and that’s where the social construct comes in, yeah.
You have the genotype, karyotype and phenotype, that may or may not be strictly related to each other depending on what happens during development in the womb.
And now I realize I’ve already started to go on a tangent that wouldn’t even address your comment anymore, so I’ll stop myself
But it’s fascinating. I’d love to get a karyogram done, to see if my chromosomes actually match what people would expect from the person I lived as up to this point.
Would you expect something non-standard, or rather - would you be disappointed if it were one way or the other?
I don’t really expect anything, no.
Being a newly realized transwoman, it would be kinda fun to have XX chromosomes and show that to the Simple Biology™ crowd, not gonna lie.
But then again, science has already established that chromosomes don’t have to mean what many people think they mean, so that wouldn’t matter.
Though I’d also just like more karyograms to be done in general, to have a better understanding of how present certain karyotypes actually are