by dollors1 » January 28th, 2008, 3:34 pm
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Gender is locked at conception. That's not an 'if'. It's a fact. Chromosomes, you know. XY, XX. There are, of course, other problems that can arise, such as XXY, or if an otherwise female baby is exposed to testosterone in the womb, but those are issues that arise during development, not 2/\[url=(https?:\/\/[^\s\[]+):$uid\](.*?)\[\/url:$uid\]/i or 3/\[url=(https?:\/\/[^\s\[]+):$uid\](.*?)\[\/url:$uid\]/i years after birth.
Why do males have nipples?
"Starting at conception and lasting until about 14 weeks, all mammalian fetuses within the same species look the same, regardless of sex. After 14 weeks, genetically-male fetuses begin producing male hormones such as testosterone. As "female" is the "developmental default" for mammals, by 14 weeks the nipples have already formed."
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It seems gender is locked in at conception at birth as an XX, and then hormones change the physical body to that of a male or a female, so chromosomes are not picked at conception but, and I know the information is floating around the net somewhere, change sexes multiple times before the "hormone see-saw" ends.
What I am going to tell you isn't as dramatic as changing sexes, but I think it does help hold up weight as to what hypnosis can do to you physically.
I am MtF and before I took hormones I took anti-androgens. And before I took anti-androgens, I took warpmymind.com :)
One of the files I listened to exclusively (I forgot which one) talked about your blood hormones changing to that of a female permanately (I know it was an EMG file). I listened to it A LOT and never thought anything of it.
I first started taking anti-androgens (they lower testosterone in our body) but no estrogen. I believe it was in the first 6 months that my doctor told me something miraculous....
My blood level, despite never taking any female hormones or seeing any physical changes, yet, was already to that of a female level!
I don't remember the terminology, but the hormone is prolactin and I think the normal female range is 14 points (whatever points is).
This was at a transgendered clinic in San Francisco. My doctor has seen trannies for years, and he said that I was the first person he's ever seen do that, and he said that most people there take TONS of hormones and never get above a few points.
It holds little weight, though because I never had my blood levels checked before listening to the files, but who's to say that it didn't turn out like it did because I believed in the mind what was happening to the body?
Oh, and thanks for the help, EMG ;)