At the risk of being unpopular, yet again, sex does not come down to just chromosomes. This is a good intro.
Chromosomes are just a plan. That plan then needs to be executed and sometimes that fails. Imagine building houses. You could have one 2-storey plan and one 1-storey plan. One should turn into a house and one into a bungalow.
However, if the materials are late for the second storey it does not get built and the roof is fitted over the first floor. OK, with houses you can delay elements of the work but baby production does not have that luxury. So you could end up with a single storey bungalow with an incongruous staircase that goes nowhere. Stuff like that can happen to people.
Also, every man with XY chromosomes has a complete plan to make a woman in every cell! Some people can have XXY chromosomes.
Basically, every feature the female body has, the male body has as well. It just comes down to size, shape and placement.
I am a bit of a fatalist when it comes to these things. You are what you are. I feel sorry for people who feel they need operations to make their body match their gender. Why not just accept that you are what you are?
Female reproductive organs don't work for some years, then they do and then they don't again. No need for a sex change every time that happens!
The important thing is to make your SIL happy about herself again and that seems to be going quite well. I don't think she has anything to worry about.
I think the main idea is to stop thinking that men and women are different!
Sounds odd but think about it. We both have heads, two eyes, two arms, two legs, two nipples. That is the easy part.
We both have a pair of gonads. That is, two mechanisms that produce cells with only half the usual number of chromosomes in them. One produces eggs and the other sperm. They all start off inside the body but men's descend - through an opening that women also have.
We both have erectile tissue that can be very sensitive. Size is the main difference. Even the prostate gland has a female equivalent in the Skene gland. Both sexes have an Adam's Apple it is just that in women it is less prominent.
Everyone has an X chromosome. Men will also have a Y chromosome. This is basically an X chromosome with most of it missing! Women have two Xs which gives them better reliability. Men can get illnesses because they could not choose the best genes because they only had one set to choose from.
In car terms, we have one production line that makes basically one type of car but there are options for wheels, engine size and paint job.
Well you make a convincing argument for being human, but in order for procreation to happen, you need completely separate sets of genes (xx&xy) to reproduce. That takes a completely different capability that only each gender can provide to fulfill the demands of procreation.
I get where you are coming from, and I guess I just want to say my original post was about a completely healthy xx person feeling sad she was losing (in her mind) the organs that make her a female.
You are right. Your SIL needs to feel happy about herself. That is the priority.
As to reproductive organs, the main components are the eggs and sperm. These are basically just cells with only half the usual number of chromosomes in both sexes.
Externally, one sex typically has a larger version of what the other sex has. As for lips, one sex has a separate pair and the other has the pair sewn up along the edge.
I apologise if this comes across as unseemly. I have this inconvenient character flaw that wants people to see things exactly the same way that I do!
At the risk of being unpopular, yet again, sex does not come down to just chromosomes. This is a good intro.
Chromosomes are just a plan. That plan then needs to be executed and sometimes that fails. Imagine building houses. You could have one 2-storey plan and one 1-storey plan. One should turn into a house and one into a bungalow.
However, if the materials are late for the second storey it does not get built and the roof is fitted over the first floor. OK, with houses you can delay elements of the work but baby production does not have that luxury. So you could end up with a single storey bungalow with an incongruous staircase that goes nowhere. Stuff like that can happen to people.
Also, every man with XY chromosomes has a complete plan to make a woman in every cell! Some people can have XXY chromosomes.
Basically, every feature the female body has, the male body has as well. It just comes down to size, shape and placement.
Confusingly, all these people have XY chromosomes
I am a bit of a fatalist when it comes to these things. You are what you are. I feel sorry for people who feel they need operations to make their body match their gender. Why not just accept that you are what you are?
Female reproductive organs don't work for some years, then they do and then they don't again. No need for a sex change every time that happens!
The important thing is to make your SIL happy about herself again and that seems to be going quite well. I don't think she has anything to worry about.
I understand all the anomalies regarding sex chromosomes.
You can probably answer the question of why men have nipples then?!
If I remeber correctly, at 19 weeks we are all prepared to be female, and then the Y takes over and forms the outward genitalia.
I think the main idea is to stop thinking that men and women are different!
Sounds odd but think about it. We both have heads, two eyes, two arms, two legs, two nipples. That is the easy part.
We both have a pair of gonads. That is, two mechanisms that produce cells with only half the usual number of chromosomes in them. One produces eggs and the other sperm. They all start off inside the body but men's descend - through an opening that women also have.
We both have erectile tissue that can be very sensitive. Size is the main difference. Even the prostate gland has a female equivalent in the Skene gland. Both sexes have an Adam's Apple it is just that in women it is less prominent.
Everyone has an X chromosome. Men will also have a Y chromosome. This is basically an X chromosome with most of it missing! Women have two Xs which gives them better reliability. Men can get illnesses because they could not choose the best genes because they only had one set to choose from.
In car terms, we have one production line that makes basically one type of car but there are options for wheels, engine size and paint job.
Well you make a convincing argument for being human, but in order for procreation to happen, you need completely separate sets of genes (xx&xy) to reproduce. That takes a completely different capability that only each gender can provide to fulfill the demands of procreation.
I get where you are coming from, and I guess I just want to say my original post was about a completely healthy xx person feeling sad she was losing (in her mind) the organs that make her a female.
Well wishes fren!
You are right. Your SIL needs to feel happy about herself. That is the priority.
As to reproductive organs, the main components are the eggs and sperm. These are basically just cells with only half the usual number of chromosomes in both sexes.
Externally, one sex typically has a larger version of what the other sex has. As for lips, one sex has a separate pair and the other has the pair sewn up along the edge.
I apologise if this comes across as unseemly. I have this inconvenient character flaw that wants people to see things exactly the same way that I do!
Maybe it was nine weeks? Been too long since genetics class ;-)
Bottom line is she is post menopausal, gave birth to two beautiful humans but had the jab, and is now bleeding and clotting uncontrollably. Bad news.