SaraZeal
Posts: 144
Joined: 10/2/2007 Status: offline
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: Inferiorxy Women with AIS have testes and XY chromosomes, and can never bear children. They are genetically a "male", not a Female. That's awfully insensitive of you. I have partial AIS and I know others who do, as well. I'm glad only the government and some doctors think of me as male. I take it as an insult. Not because it's "boys are yucky" or that I consider it inferior. It's just -not me-. Genetics are more complicated than you think. Enough so that no one on Earth is 100% male or 100% female, we're all variables amongst a continuum of genetic variation. Aggregating closer to the poles than not (though not so close as you might think). Declaring someone genetically male or genetically female, while ignoring the whole rest of who they are, well, that's pretty shallow, especially for an endocrinologist. Maybe they did it in that episode of House, but well, they also got shit for it from AIS activists. I look all female, and while I've always been infertile, it's got no bearing on who I am. In a few generations we will have womb and ovary implants, that adapt to the person's DNA, and produce the same they would if they had been there before - and as such, could also be used to replace malfunctioning or cancerous ones. That because I've only been partially affected, and been declared male, makes me "less" of a female, is your opinion, and if it's going to be trying to invalidate me, I prefer not to have it. I know enough people who accept me for who I am, not who they think I am or who they judge I ought to be. and yes I'm sub, but not a doormat, I feel strongly about this
|