by Liann » October 18th, 2010, 6:14 pm
[quote="mattwo":/\[url=(https?:\/\/[^\s\[]+):$uid\](.*?)\[\/url:$uid\]/i2184a46]clearly he was either born as a herm, or as a female.[/quote:/\[url=(https?:\/\/[^\s\[]+):$uid\](.*?)\[\/url:$uid\]/i2184a46]
That is not at all clear. Medical science recognizes a dozen human sexes, including with chromosomes XX, XXX, XXXX, XXXX, XXY, and XY, born with female external genitals. Hermaphrodites are practically all XXY chromosomed with an extra X or an extraneous Y.
There are XY and XYY persons born with external male genitalia. Some XY males will transition to XY females through gender reassignment. Many of the XYY will end up in prison.
This case has evidence of being an XY born male with both conditions: (1) failed androgen receptors, and (2) heightened estrogen production.
Since both males and females produce both male and female sex hormones, it is worth paying attention to how these hormones come to be.
"Estrogen" is the generic name for the three main human feminizing hormones.
Estrodiol, if I remember correctly, is the most potent of the three. Then a cascade causes it to break apart into a weaker form, and then again. The original Estrodiol itself is produced from the male hormone called Testosterone. It's a little more complicated than that, but this is the short form. Male testosterone can become male-estrogen by a number of means, including post-hypnotic suggestion.
Environmental chemicals, especially many pesticides, can mimic estrogens in the human body. DDT, for example, is a long-lived chemical which survives for many decades in soil and water and can be concentrated up the food chain. It can be stored in the human body fat tissues for decades. When it breaks down it falls into two parts -- one acts like a weak estrogen, and the other acts as a very potent anti-androgen. In short, it stops maleness and promotes feminization.
The She-Man in the story might have been exposed to large doses of DDT when young, or eats contaminated foods today to get these results. Pesticide residue tissue tests are warranted.
There are scores and scores of chemicals known to cause feminization of males by mimicing the estrogen molecule. They fit the estrogen receptors and lock in, unlike natural estrogens which are metabolized within a short time, and these synthetics not only don't turn off, but they are sometimes far more potent than natural human estrogens.
If that wasn't enough, many synthetic man-made chemical molecules work synergistically with others, becoming ten times more potent when a secondary feminizing molecule is present.
All of this was documented more than ten years ago in the book THE FEMINIZATION OF NATURE. Do try to keep up -- this is not even news by now.
Even Walmart is now on board with the science, discontinuing the use of hard clear plastic baby bottles which have been leaching a chemical into the baby milk feminizing the generation of children taunting the She-Male in the story. Wait until they start growing tits because of the baby formulas their mothers fed them.
Beware of easy answers to sex questions.