Scientists made mice with Y chromosomes female by deleting just 6 tiny molecules | Live Science
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Scientists discovered that removing specific molecules from developing mice can completely reverse their sex from male to female.
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Anti-trans bigots don't want to hear it. Y-chromosome equals man, remember?
This study was done in the womb before society could get their grubby paws (pun intended) all over the mice and assign a gender.
Anti-trans people would see a naturally formed penis or vagina on somebody and say that’s the gender. I don’t think they care about chromosomes.
No that's fine, they just switch to the SRY gene.
Or they just I ignore it like all those intersex XY (and other chromosomal abnormalities) people born with female genitals.
But intersex people are super rare! We definitely aren’t a wide spectrum and more common than trans people
Not sure if this is a sarcastic or genuine comment. Regardless a quick google came up with these estimates.
intersex 0.018% or 1.7% depending on what you include in the definition of intersex. transgender: 0.5%
So depending on your definition of intersex it can be 3 times as many intersected people compared to transgender or 28 times as many transgender compared to intersex.
Imo it's very likely a big intersection in these two subpopulations.
transgender 1 in 250 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5227946/
intersex: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/