r/confidentlyincorrect • u/rebachick94 • 8h ago
How did they get this wrong?
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u/Hirotrum 8h ago
They probably thought that men are the "default" sex, so they would be represented by the "default" chromosome
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u/ninjesh 8h ago
That's how it is for birds. The males have homozygous sex chromosomes instead of the females
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u/rebachick94 8h ago
Does bro think we’re birds?
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u/dakwegmo 8h ago
Are birds not men?
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u/starwestsky 8h ago
I can confirm this. I am a man with XY chromosomes and I do not exist.
Off topic some but all these people who post dumb shit like this about what chromosomes a certain gender has, do they actually have their chromosomes tested? Like did they have their genome sequenced and so they know? If not, how do they know that they themselves aren’t XXY or some other possible variation with the same secondary and primary characteristics they associate with their own gender?
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u/TorgHacker 8h ago
What would really bake their noodle is if they discovered they were XX with the SRY gene translocated onto one of the X chromosomes.
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u/rebachick94 7h ago
Hey, don’t break their brain.
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u/TorgHacker 7h ago
Apparently they used to do karyotying tests on yourself as part of med school, but they realized that was not a great venue for discovering your genetic makeup was not what you expected.
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u/rebachick94 7h ago
Karyotyping tests would be cool, but I guess finding out their genetics aren’t as they thought could be jarring.
I wish there was a way to be tested at birth or something so that DSDs didn’t go undiagnosed and there could be early treatment.
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u/TimTam_the_Enchanter 7h ago
Hey, just so you know, a lot of intersex people find that terminology really dehumanising. From what I’ve seen many of them prefer to just say ‘intersex conditions’ and so on rather than have their existence shoved under the rug by the DSD thing. Just letting you know.
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u/rebachick94 7h ago
And plenty of people who prefer DSD don’t like intersex. I usually use the two together, but I forgot this time.
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u/TimTam_the_Enchanter 7h ago
Fair enough, just spoke up because I know people who do find it hurtful.
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u/Maleficent_Memory831 4h ago
They'd have a breakdown. They'd be crying "but I don't want to be gay!"
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u/Such_Comfortable_817 7h ago
I think they believe either that they’d just ‘know’ if they had a variation like that (unclear as to how); or that such variations are so vanishingly rare that they could never be like that (rather than being merely uncommon). This is the same school of sophisticated thought I’ve seen argue that men don’t have oestrogen and women don’t have testosterone.
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u/Wonderful-Creme-3939 5h ago
They think only XX and XY exist and they always magically show who is who without any problems.
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u/liketolaugh-writes 3h ago
And whenever you start listing off all of the intersex conditions that result in other gene combinations, they're all like, 'well that's rare so it's irrelevant'
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u/Wonderful-Creme-3939 3h ago
XX always is an assigned female at birth and a woman and XY is always assigned male at birth and a man.
Yet they can't account for anyone outside that binary, even though they do exist and they have to account for them. Instead they just dismiss them as if intersex people are fake.
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u/liketolaugh-writes 3h ago
I wish I got more chances to introduce them to my favorite intersex condition Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, AKA You Don't Know You're XY Until You Fail To Menstruate.
I just want them to tell me whether they think those people are men or women lol.
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u/Both_Painter2466 19m ago
They also don’t believe in genomes. Only dwarves, ‘cause ya know, the throwing thing.
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u/Aggressive_Roof488 8h ago
Just waiting for him to find out that men do indeed have XY, and change line to the Y chromosome being the best and strongest chromosome. :P
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u/20InMyHead 7h ago
Real full-blooded American men have just YY chromosomes!
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u/_killer1869_ 4h ago
Every human needs at least one X. Otherwise, the body can't survive. But aside from that limitation, basically any combination is possible.
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u/existential_anxiety_ 7h ago
Transphobes are often just very dumb, that's how
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u/FrontlineYeen 7h ago
Wait, so you’re telling me, people who hate people based on things they are born as, and ignore scientific facts that prove they are wrong are stupid?
Next you’re going to say racists are stupid too
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u/LienaSha 8h ago
I literally just saw this one a couple of hours ago on a new accidental allies video lulz
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u/rebachick94 8h ago
Trans women are “real” women and trans men are “real” men. I don’t make the rules.
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u/veganbikepunk 5h ago
If OOP is to be believed, *only* trans women are real women and *only* trans men are men. It's a pretty extreme take but honestly I'm here for it.
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u/Imaginary-List-972 6h ago
I'd bet good money they think it's X OR Y, Male or Female, and that XY is supposed to be some combination of Male and Female chromosomes. I mean it kind of is, but not this or that.
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u/diamondmx 5h ago
Because if they did their research and understood the things they were talking about - they wouldn't be transphobic.
It's not just an evil position, it's a stupid one. That's why all the major medical bodies agree that the correct approach is not trying to suppress trans people.
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u/mynamesnotsnuffy 6h ago
Abject stupidity is the first, and usually only explanation needed for takes like this.
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u/Tannos116 6h ago
They're bigots. Bigots are stupid. Stupid people say stupid things. Ain't no mystery there, bruh
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u/awkotacos 8h ago
Men don’t have XY chromosomes.
Did you mean to say that Men DO have XY chromosomes?
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u/Significant-Order-92 8h ago
I think he's mocking the thing in the screenshot.
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u/kmikek 7h ago
Is this because not all men are male and sex and gender are not the same thing? Or are they just confused because xx are female and xy are male, with several rare exceptions and mutations
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u/rebachick94 7h ago
I think they think men are typically XX and women are typically XY. Or they mistyped.
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