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two ransgendered movies in one year.

posted 9 years ago by captkirk_459
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I find it interesting that we are getting two movies about Transgendered people. One is from the man born in a woman's body, Danish Girl. The other is a woman born in a man's body, About Ray. I am glad Hollywood is being more daring with their movies. I would like to know how this happens to people. Is it the chromosomes people are born with? I remember learning than every woman's unfertilized egg has an X Chromosomes. When it is fertilized by a man's sperm that decides the gender. If the sperm carries another X chromosome than the egg becomes a girl. If the sperm carries a Y chromosome than the egg becomes a boy. I guess a transgendered is when two sperms fertilize the same egg which is rare. The Egg is suppose to do something to prevent that from happening. So if you are born with XYX, a X sperm and a Y sperm fertilizing the same egg makes one king of transgendered. Two Y sperms fertilizing the same egg would make YXY the other kind of transgendered. I guess that is it. I am just trying to understand the biology of how his happens.

[–] pmfg_pan 9 years ago

I would like to know how this happens to people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_transsexualism

[–] Sexy-scientist 9 years ago

Oh snap, I spent hours reading that whole article. Caution everyone, think twice before clicking.

[–] patrick_bateman_90029 9 years ago

Three. You forgot "Tangerine".

[–] liaplzzo 9 years ago

What you're talking about, involving the chromosomes, is called being intersex, and is different than being transgender. Transgender is the phenomenon of feeling gender disphoria: that ones gender (which is societal, not biological i.e. woman or man) does not match up with ones biological sex (female or male). While intersex people may feel gender disphoria as well, they are two separate conditions.

[–] fixations_of_a_fallen_po 9 years ago

This is wrong. Neuroscientists have compared/contrasted the brain structures of trans people with those who are not transgender (Dr. Swaab has several studies). He discovered the brain structures of trans people were most similar to the gender with which they identified, not the sex they were assigned at birth. As a control group, the brains of trans people who hadn't ever undergone transition were also analyzed--the same results were discovered. This eliminated the possibility of hormones altering brain structure.

Obviously there is a biological element to your so-called "phenomenon."

[–] hppg 8 years ago

I'm not sure that's true

[–] teresamargit 8 years ago

The notion of men and women having different brains is sexist. There's no such thing as "brain sex".

[–] Sexy-scientist 9 years ago

The title of the discussion is about movies but it is actually about genetics. But anyways, XXY is Klinefelter's syndrome which is not caused by double fertilization of the same egg but because of the defective meiosis in either of the gametes. And because of the same reason, XYY does not exist.