<div> </div> <div>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. <br><br> </div> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/17/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Costello</b> <<a href="mailto:joxn.costello@gmail.com">joxn.costello@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 11/17/05, boddi satva <<a href="mailto:lbo.boddi@gmail.com">lbo.boddi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> <br>> I don't tie gender differences to hormone levels. I tie them to DNA. Every<br>> single cell in my body is male and every cell in your body is female and<br>> there is no way to alter that. compared to the genetic difference between <br>> men and women, all men are genetically identical and all women are<br>> genetically identical.<br><br>Wow.  This is so wrong, it's hard to know where to start.  Maybe with<br>androgen insensitivity syndrome, which produces humans with female <br>bodies despite an XY genotype?   People with AIS would be genetically<br>identical to "all men" in your schema, but phenotypically female.<br><br>--<br>John S Costello<br><a href="mailto:joxn.costello@gmail.com"> joxn.costello@gmail.com</a><br>"All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age<br>of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind."<br>-- Adam Smith<br><br>___________________________________ <br><a href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a><br></blockquote></div><br>