quote:Op maandag 5 februari 2007 @ 09:32 schreef EdPowers het volgende:
Excuse me? Jamie Lee C/. is genetisch een man?? Bron?
Google maar op: Jamie Lee Curtis XY
quote:Jamie Lee Curtis has one X chromosome and one Y chromosome. For those of you rusty in biology, XY means that she is chromosomally, literally, biologically male. What Jamie Lee wasn't born with were the receptors for her male hormones, so she went back to the genetic sexual default appearing female. Her penis and testicles were never able to be developed.
"How did she get such great tits?" I hear you wonder aloud. At puberty, the testes start to produce a large amount of the male hormone testosterone but, in the absence of its receptor, this has no effect. However, testosterone is converted to estrogen, and so normal to enthusiastic breast development occurs. It's not uncommon for those with complete AIS to have rather large breasts. There's also little to no pubic or axillary hair, and of course, no periods, as there is no uterus present to produce a lining which to shed.
Often a "woman" who has AIS, while genetically a male, is completely, aesthetically female. AIS is often not discovered until puberty, when the person does not start to menstruate and a gynecological examination reveals the syndrome, and the fact that "she" has undescended testes internally rather than ovaries. Many of these AIS people also have short vaginal-type canals of half the normal length of a true vagina, and require surgery if they feel they need to lengthen the partial "vagina" for satisfactory intercourse.
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http://www.suspectthoughtspress.com/twisted5.htmEn dan heb je ook nog tal van baby's wiens geslachtsdelen ergens tussen man en vrouw in zitten en voor wie het bij de geboorte niet helemaal duidelijk is of het jongetjes of meisjes zijn.
quote:But that's a whole lot different than being forced by mutilation at birth to live one's life as a female simply because your genitals looked a little off to your attending physician at your birth. Chop! Chop! Off goes the penis, neatly shaped, shortened into a cute little clitoris. It sounds ridiculous, frankly atrocious, the stuff of horror stories, and yes... some form of genital reassignment surgery is done to about five infants every day in North America. This often occurs when partial, rather than complete, androgen insensitivity is the case. The genetic abnormality in the receptor produces an incomplete, but not total, block of male hormones. In this case, the child is usually born with ambiguous genitalia—meaning it looks as if they have either a very short penis, or a very long clitoris and likely nothing resembling testicles—yet—or maybe never. The child may be brought up as either a male or a female.
What happens when these children grow up? Usually not much until puberty. But puberty is the big deal—that's where the hormonal fireworks tend to begin. Dating, opposite sex attraction, same sex attraction, development of breasts or not, facial hair or not, changing voices, changing texture of hair, height, weight, genitalia, and so much more. All these confusing body issues are hard enough on a person of a decided gender, but imagine the pressures on a person who has already been met with decidedly ambiguous genitalia, or has been tailor made permanently by the medical community to have genitals that simply don't fit with one's internal feelings of gender. You can plainly envision a world of psychological and physical problems when faced with the simple act of dating. And that's just the beginning.
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http://www.suspectthoughtspress.com/twisted5.htm