They had this show on TLC some few weeks ago, where they were all about men and women and Xs and Ys and stuff. Highly interesting. They said that every embryo is female from the beginning. They proofed it with all humans having nipples. An embryo would only turn into a male fetus when the mother produces enough testosterone during the first few weeks or months of teh pregnancy and therefor makes it male. So, they also said that because of this, the sex of the child doesn't have anything to do with the male partner, or how manly he is, or on how many Ys he has in his sperm or anything. I thought it very interesting.
They also had this girl on the show, who wanted to be a guy, because inwardly she felt like a guy. They put her on a testosterone treatment for six weeks, and as it turned out, she actually grew some facial hair, her voice got lower, her brain started to work as if it was a male brain, she got stronger. It creeped me out at first, but she actually started to look like a male, or at least more male than she looked before the treatment.
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Date: 2002-08-05 11:15 pm (UTC)They also had this girl on the show, who wanted to be a guy, because inwardly she felt like a guy. They put her on a testosterone treatment for six weeks, and as it turned out, she actually grew some facial hair, her voice got lower, her brain started to work as if it was a male brain, she got stronger. It creeped me out at first, but she actually started to look like a male, or at least more male than she looked before the treatment.
And that was SO random. Hi!