[lbo-talk] No cock left behind

[boddi satva]

People with genetic or physiological abnormalities that alter their apparent
gender are very, very small in number. Using a rare genetic disease (AIS) to
try and prove some daft notion that male and female exist on a continuum is
a tremendously insensitive thing to do. However large the difference in
their DNA from the unafflicted, I don't propose a different gender for
people with Down's syndrome, I say they suffer from a genetic disease.

 On 11/17/05, John Costello <joxn.costello at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/17/05, boddi satva <lbo.boddi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I don't tie gender differences to hormone levels. I tie them to DNA.
> Every
> > single cell in my body is male and every cell in your body is female and
> > there is no way to alter that. compared to the genetic difference
> between
> > men and women, all men are genetically identical and all women are
> > genetically identical.
>
> Wow. This is so wrong, it's hard to know where to start. Maybe with
> androgen insensitivity syndrome, which produces humans with female
> bodies despite an XY genotype? People with AIS would be genetically
> identical to "all men" in your schema, but phenotypically female.
>
> --
> John S Costello
> joxn.costello at gmail.com
> "All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age
> of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind."
> -- Adam Smith
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