My niece has Turner’s syndrome. She had to learn to give herself hormone shots to grow and develop as others normally would during puberty, but due to very underdeveloped ovaries is incapable of producing gametes. How does she fit in?
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powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 2 days agoNobody has a body organized around producing no gametes
Duranie@leminal.space 2 days ago
powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Turner’s syndrome is a chromosomal disorder that only affects females. Her body is organized around the production of the larger of two gamete sizes.
mech@feddit.org 2 days ago
What does this even mean?
Who “organizes” bodies?
If a body can’t and never could produce gametes, what makes it “organized” to do so anyway?
powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
There is no “who”, it’s the process of evolution over billions of years. Our bodies aren’t blank slates.
pebbles@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Kinda feels like you dodged the question. I think they were asking you to define what it means to “organize around producing a gamete”, how folks that were never going to produce either fit into that definition, and how you construct sex as a binary despite that.
powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Sorry, you’re down in the list of comments in my inbox. They’d look for structures like these for diagnosis:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramesonephric_duct
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesonephric_duct
There aren’t people born with bodies that just have “no concept” of how to produce a gamete, and that’s what I mean our bodies aren’t blank slates. Even if someone doesn’t actually produce gametes, the rest of their body is still structured in a sexed way, because we’re a sexually dimorphic species.