BOOM! Was This The Article to Start It All? 2007 Scientific American and the XX/XY Dilemma.

I was curious, I wanted to see if the Gooogglee algorithms are deciding how chromosomes define sex now. So I searched "XX XY" and this popped up from 2007.

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<Snip> About one in 4,500 babies show ambiguous genitalia at birth, such as a clitoris that looks like a penis, or vice versa. For the Insights story, "Going Beyond X and Y," appearing in the June 2007 issue of Scientific American, Sally Lehrman talked with noted geneticist Eric Vilain of the University of California, Los Angeles, about the biology of sex determination, gender identity and the psychology and politics behind both. Here is an expanded interview.

When did you first discover your interest in intersex individuals and the biology of sex development?

I started in Paris as a medical student, and my first assignment was to a unit of pediatric endocrinology in a Paris hospital, and it was the center of reference for all of France for babies born with ambiguous genitals. And I was actually literally shocked by the way decisions were made on these patients. I felt it didn't rely on solid scientific evidence. I mean, I'm a scientist, I'm a big believer of you can't just do things without being supported by evidence. In this case it was more like people would say it was just common sense—if the clitoris sticks out this much, you have to fix it. Or if the penis is really too small, it has to be bigger. Otherwise what life is this child going to have? And you know, I was never convinced by common sense. I kept asking, "How do you know?" There was no good answer to that.</snip>

Less than 50%, the rest is at the link.

I think this is how it started. A geneticist has no business discussing the politics of anything. This is where the line got blurred. This is where money is exchanged for the pushing of an ideology disguised as science.

This is how it all began, with a guy named 'Vilain'.


Honestly, can you make it up?

Last Edited by Ozone Baby on 10/20/2022 11:24 PM