Chromosomes do not necessarily determine sex. True, most women have XX chromosomes and most men XY chromosomes. However, some women, with full female biological characteristics — a natural uterus, womb, and breasts — have XY chromosomes. About 1 in 2000 females have a single X chromosome (45,X). As many as 1 in 1000 have triple …
If it’s all you have ever known, how would you know that something is not normal? There have been many such incidences like this — surprises, we may say — through the years. During one particularly humiliating and invasive investigation years ago, a specialist asked me, “Did you never think this was unusual?” “What would …
I don’t know if I am normal. I don’t know if my brain functions the same way as everyone else’s. I don’t know whether my emotional empathy is appropriate, or veers widely off course. These thoughts stirred by another of those encounters, repeated throughout my life: a complete stranger yelling at me at the top …
I disengage with any commentator, influencer, preacher, scholar, imam or community sage who speaks of real men or real women. Religious types tend to have an obsession with both, imposing their cultural archetypes on all people, everywhere. I disengage, not because I’m a lefty-liberal snowflake (although that may well be true), but because I dispute …
There is so much that the scientific endeavour is yet to understand. Our collective knowledge is still very much like a literal drop in the ocean, or a grain of sand in a mighty dune. Some would say that the field of genetics can be traced all the way back to the classical period, but …
God bestowed me an extra chromosome, by which He made me all that I am.
