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shroomman
shroomman

Interesting, so we all are transgenic (for a [short] period of our life)

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Mengu
Mengu

Nope. Sex is determined by DNA, and our DNA remains unchanged since conception. The famous XY and XX chromosomes make us male or female since we're merely a zygote.

An early human fetus and early shark or pig fetuses are physically identical, but that doesn't make us sharks or pigs for a short period of our life.

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Beskamir
Beskamir

Except when there are triple sex chromosomes. Then things can get a bit confusing.

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Mengu
Mengu

There are exceptions to every rule, but still, exceptions don't make the norm.

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Excogitatoris-Logica
Excogitatoris-Logica

Wasn't SURE, so I asked a relative I know IRL, who's an actual surgeon and a nerd for biology. Directly from my chatlog with him:
"En el momento en que se unen las dos gametas (ovulo y espermatozoide) cada uno aporta la mitad del material genético, para formar un ser diferente. De allí en más, cada célula que se divide lleva el mismo genoma"
Or in English:
The moment the two gametes (ovum and sperm) join, each provides half the genetic material, to form a different being. From that point onward, each new cell carries the new genome.

Which tells me that tumblr post is a load of bull coming from a overly sexualized community. Which is redundant, yes. But still worth reminding.

AAAAAAND got ninja'd by Mengu.

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kubli
kubli

I took it more as we already have an assigned sex but still go through the same phases until we don't.

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Blue199
Blue199

Not that I already knew this.

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Sanguinius Creator
Sanguinius

Well ****, this means i sucked a few penises in my life without even knowing :(

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Mirsh
Mirsh

There is also some rare cases where the patient is basically immune to testosterone, so while they are genetically male, they develop a purely female phenotype. Learned this from House, but it's a real thing.

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