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[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Can you explain further? I’m a biochemist / medical lab scientist, and between my studies in genetics, human sexuality, and endocrinology, it seems pretty well figured out. Between “normal” X/Y chromosomes, various chromosomal abnormalities (X, XXX, XXY, XYY, etc), and mutations like androgen insensitivity syndrome it seems there is significant causal data. Not sure if they’ve studied these with knockout mice but it’s well beyond inference at this point.

I’m not sealioning here, it has been like a decade since I was actively learning this stuff and I’m sure there have been more discoveries. In general though it seems like we know the genetics, we know the hormones and receptors involved, the developmental process and various maladies are known, etc.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world -2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I’m not sealioning here

Are you sure? I'm not.

For someone taking the trouble to disagree with "sex is more complicated than binary M/F" there sure are a lot of caveats to your argument.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

That is absolutely not what I’m saying. I’m saying the biological processes that lead to intersex or otherwise “complicated” sex conditions are fairly well understood.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'm so sorry, I completely got the wrong end of the stick.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

No worries, thanks for allowing me to explain and reading what I said. Online discussions can be difficult these days.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Too true, too true.

[–] powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You should ignore that poster. They're not right in the head.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago

Nah, seems like they just misinterpreted what I was saying.