• @ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip
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    79 months ago

    Incorrect. Without intervention by hormone signals, literally every human fetus would develop as a “female” with all the traditional female sex organs and morphology. I believe they’d even be capable of generating eggs and carrying babies, but I’m not as confident on that.

    A lot of people think that the XX or XY is determinative or definitional, but it’s always the hormones, baby.

      • @uid0gid0@lemmy.world
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        49 months ago

        Also androgen insensitivity syndrome, when cells lack testosterone receptors. The complete version results in females with no uterus.