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In reply to the discussion: Caitlyn Jenner did not "decide to become" a woman [View all]TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)pretty much everything in human sexuality involves a bell curve.
From my limited knowledge of genetics, it seems things are far more complicated than just somehow dropping a Y chromosome into a fertile ovum. It seems that there is a range of genetic material to be sorted out before sexual identification is sealed. And it doesn't always work out all that well-- hermaphrodites with the organs of both are born more often than we would like, but what's going on seeming "normal" children who might be leaning one way or the other?
And how does genetics affect psychology? Or the other way around?
And then, after we figure all this other stuff out, there's the final question of can a trans person truly be trans? Aside from that troublesome Y, a trans woman didn't grow up having that first period and will never have a baby (yet, anyway) so there's a huge gap in the overall female experience.
There apparently is the physical sex of the person, and the psychological gender of the person, and we haven't quite figured it all out yet.
More bell curves....