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Yes, this is why it annoys me when people take the “if there’s a Y it’s a guy” position, because it really does make things ridiculous when you’re saying someone with the appearance of a woman, who was raised as a woman, who has boobs and a vulva, and who with the help of hormones and egg donation can literally bear children in some cases, is actually a man. She might be biologically male, but pointing to a woman whose parents named her Jennifer who is holding a baby she just gave birth to and saying “that’s a man, baby!” just makes you look silly.It does, but it really doesn’t do much. The Y-Chromosome is basically an “on” switch to start making dude parts. Some of the genes it activates are on the X chromosome. Some are elsewhere. As the old biochemistry joke goes “there’s only one chromosome you can live without and it affects nearly 51% of the population”
There are in fact cases of women with XY genomes. I don’t mean trans women, I mean real honest to goodness women who’s physical deformities aren’t detectable by the average Joe. These women “suffer” from a messed up Y chromosome, so the body just defaulted to X and went ahead and made a girl. There are some side effects of course. Some need hormonal replacement and some get a surgery to clean up any malformed internal tissues, but it’s not unheard of.
This is generally why I think that there are some truly trans people out there, because the genetics can get a bit blurry, hell, everything in biology is a bit blurry. It’s the level trans people we are seeing and what they are trying to push that scares me, not that they use some of biology’s weirder habits to make a point.
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Swyer syndrome: MedlinePlus Genetics
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The reason troons are so successful with the “sex is more complicated than high school biology, sweaty" argument is because they’re partially right. The key is that they then use that complexity (and people's general lack of understanding) to push bullshit like sex being changeable or “a spectrum.”
The key is: there are ways nature screws up the human sexes, and a lot of it hinges on the fact that the "default" outward phenotype is female. This is not the same as saying “all fetuses start off female” which I’ve seen MtFs use (“I was female but then got testosterone poisoning”). All fetuses either have a Y or they don’t. But in the absence of certain functional genes or hormones, a fetus with XX or XY will develop a vulva and look female.
More on the Y chromosome: X and Y aren’t just random labels, the two chromosomes actually resemble the letters X and Y during cell division. In other words, the Y is missing a ‘leg’ that the X has, which means that a lot of genes on the X don’t have a matching “pair” in males. This is why there is a category of genetic diseases that affect men worse than women, because women have that extra backup version of certain genes that men don’t. Short version: chromosomes matter, and they are real, and they affect you forever.