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[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

So was everybody else.

[Anonymous No.]

Yes, I was. No, I don't remember how it felt

[Anonymous No.]

And then testosterone ruined it.

[Anonymous No.]

I don't like this trend of putting your text in the image. Find a proper OP picture and put your text in the comment.

[Anonymous No.]

Are you telling me that my dream just came true retroactively?

[Anonymous No.]

Some go back to being one.

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[Anonymous No.]

>>5093672
You can do that?

[Anonymous No.]

>>5093672
That's not little

[Anonymous No.]

Go away slowpoke.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5093672
3D pig disgusting. I want to be the 2D little girl.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5093684
Little enough.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5093699
Not really.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5093701
Me too but we can only dream.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5093634
This is a piece of bullshit and I wish people would stop spreading this. Sexual characteristics do not work this way (hint: gonads are gender neutral before they develop into testes or ovaries, so are a lot of other things in the body).

[Kraken !uj/koSf.Zc No.]

>>5093748
So, not having "That" does not count as being a girl?
Kinda Confused now

[Anonymous No.]

I hatched from a rock, I was born with a beard.

Fuck your science.

[Y10NRDY !kxh.1oTAkU No.]

SAY WORD SON.

[Necrobrotent No.]

I'm pretty sure I was always a dude, bro.

I think I'd remember if I was a chick.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5093826

Gender is not so cut-and-dry. It's hard to define "male" and "female", as each individual expresses traits characteristic to one or the other to varying degrees. The point that OP was trying to make is that a fetus starts off mostly feminine or gender-neutral at an early stage of development. If it doesn't receive the proper hormones from the mother at the correct time, it won't develop most male characteristics even with XY chromosomes.

The differences between male and female reproductive organs is rather less pronounced than it initially appears. Basically, we all start out as female, but various body parts become stretched, fused, moved, etc. during development. The penis is essentially just an elongated clitoris with a fused urethra. The testes are essentially just very slightly modified ovaries which have descended in order to maintain a lower temperature (the tube connecting the testes and penis is actually "hooked" around the ureter because they were initially located in the same place as regular ovaries during development). Men and women both have identical mammary glands, as well. Differences in hormone balance during puberty are what make female's breasts grow larger, although this doesn't make women with large breasts any more capable of producing milk than a flat-chested woman, or even a man. Fun fact: Americans in general are known for being tall, and their women for having large breasts. This is mostly due to the excessive amount of estrogen in our water supply (which we don't filter at all, for some reason), which is the hormone that controls both height and breast development. American men have significantly larger breasts on average when compared to the rest of the world, too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5093918
>>Gender is not so cut-and-dry. It's hard to define "male" and "female", as each individual expresses traits characteristic to one or the other to varying degrees

Sex is not a trait thing, it's a gamete thing. If you produce egg cells, you're female, if sperm, you're male.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5094184
Many modern scientists have abandoned strictly 'male' and 'female' in sex as well, and instead think of sex as a grid with male and female as ends.

off the top of my head, there are at least 8 hormone deficiencies that will result in either neutral parts (as the post above said, in their pre-developed state, where they are sterile), or in the growth of parts that may look like they are functional but are sterile.

also, a person that produces neither?

the reason that people may think you would be a girl in the beginning is because becoming a girl is the default, but we begin in a gender neutral state with organs that have the potential to be either male or female.
if the gene on the Y chromosome does not react for whatever reason, you will become a girl (with a possibility of being sterile, depending), but you did not start as one.