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Don’t You Know Who I Am?
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If the SRY gene is broken, they'd still physically develop as female, though potentially with some abnormalities, rather than as male. Even leaving gender identity out of it, sex is still more complicated than
if exists Y; then maleBut If I have a construction plan, and this plan is somewhat flawed, but I start building anyway, then I am still building the planned object, but with flaws?
I don’t want to offend anyone. I myself have a genetic defect, much worse if you ask me, than some sexual genetic defect. I can barely consume any fructose without shitting myself. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I think if we're going to use the construction plan metaphor, it would be more accurate to say that the builders didn't get the message to alter the plans. Like if there was a house plan that was designed so it could be a duplex or a single family home by adding or removing one wall. Both options actually exist in the plans for the house at all times (yes, XX still has the genetic code for male anatomy), the SRY gene isn't the plans to build male anatomy, that's stored elsewhere, the SRY gene is more like a text to the builder saying "go with option B". Except in this case the text failed to send, so the builder defaulted to option A.
So at the end of the day, the builder doesn't put the wall in and builds a single family home, not a duplex. The owner may have wanted a duplex, but that isn't what got built. So is it a duplex or not? I would lean towards saying no, but we're not talking about houses, we're talking about people, so it should probably just be their call
Good explanation.
I think you’re trying to oversimplify things a bit. Sexual differentiation is an extremely complex process. To be frank, a biological perspective doesn’t really care about “what’s recorded on the government ID”. As you get more and more granular, those kinds of generalizations become less useful.
For a pure science take, such an individual might be described as:
But that doesn’t really fit on a driver’s license, so…