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  1. Dec 2021
    1. People with CAIS have Y chromosomes and internaltestes, but their external genitalia are female, and they develop as females at puberty.

      As a biology major, sex chromosomes is mainly about X and Y chromosomes but nothing about this. Nothing on how cases such as these exist. It's fascinating how this defies the norm of two genders being female and male.

    1. Experts told them how to catch a man and keep him,how to breastfeed children and handle their toilet training, how to cope with sibling rivalryand adolescent rebellion; how to buy a dishwasher, bake bread, cook gourmet snails, andbuild a swimming pool with their own hands; how to dress, look, and act more feminine andmake marriage more exciting; how to keep their husbands from dying young and their sonsfrom growing into delinquents.

      Women are always the one doing all the labor in the house and much more but is still thrown under the bus. Why is it a reward for women to have a man? Does the woman really need a man to be validated? The ideology of "keeping" a man back then was and still is a norm, people still think that it is a woman's responsibility to look and maintain a man, but I believe it should be the other way around.

    1. As I was growing up, I met a lot of men. They never appealedto me, you know, too much sexually. You know, I tried to keepaway from them because in my hometown if you werehomosexual you were out of it and they would call you allkinds of names. And then when I first came to New York, Iwas 17 years old that’s when I started getting kind of— youknow— transvestite, more like a transvestite. I started out withmakeup in 1963-1964 and in 1965 I was coming out more andI was still wearing makeup. But I was still going to jail just forwearing makeup. In 1969, I started wearing female attire fulltime

      It's enraging to hear that this individual could not feel safe in their OWN hometown and because of that they had to move to another place in order to express themselves. Sadly, I am sure there are a lot more cases like these, it's saddening how this society is.

    1. When it comes to sex, the Western assumption that there are only two sexes probably derives from our culture's close coupling between sex and procreati

      When I read this, I kind of wanted to share a memory. The church I used to go to has a school system, and I remember out pf curiosity I peeked one of the textbooks that they used and I noticed every science textbook is based on Western religion. I'm talking about how botany, astronomy, sexes, to even marine life. It's insane how the students are brainwashed and even we are. Western religion has such a big influences on everything that now, it's normalized within our everyday lives that its undetectable.