Re: Japanese Baby ... Prince?

jchristin.gray@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Besides, I wouldn't be too surprised if Princess Kiko's child were
really female but presented to the world as a male. With male hormones
given at the right intervals during the childs life, it could pass as a
male - assuming the child was born female and raised male. Its the
thing television talk shows are made of.

No, I'm sorry -- but this is entirely wrong. On the contrary, there is
a far greater likelylihood of a genetically male child (meaning that he
has an X-Y composition) being mistaken for a female (because of a lack
of proper hormones secreted during the mother's pregnancy), than the
other way around. Femaleness is unequivocal: a person with an X-X
genetic composition can NEVER exhibit masculine traits.

Rather, it's maleness that is highly complicated: the Y-chromosome BY
ITSELF does not guarantee this. What happens is that after such a
sperm cell fertilizes an egg, a special process is triggered. I
believe this is called the H-factor, whereby the expectant mother
secretes antigen (the said hormone).

Insufficient secretion results in the birth of a sexually ambigous
baby: oftentimes, the child is thought of as a girl and raised as such
-- until, of course, puberty. In fact, there are three villages of the
Dominican Republic with this genetic disorder, whereby expectant
mothers carrying male fetuses fail to secrete enough antigen during
their pregnancies. It has become a common enough occurrence for the
villagers to coin a word for such children: MACHIHEMBRA ("first woman,
then man").

It might indeed be possible to inject testosterones into a genetically
female child: but she cannot pass off as male, in the same way that a
male child will appear (in every respect) female -- in the event of a
hormonal deficiency.

Maleness, then, is essentially an aberration -- almost a birth defect:
indeed, a male can basically be regarded as a deformed female -- rather
than a female being some kind of deficient male.

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