Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs
Lumidaub@feddit.org 10 months agoLet me rephrase that: people without ovaries, uterus, vagina or testes. Nowhere in their bodies. They have a vulva or a penis plus scrotum.
Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs
Lumidaub@feddit.org 10 months agoLet me rephrase that: people without ovaries, uterus, vagina or testes. Nowhere in their bodies. They have a vulva or a penis plus scrotum.
powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Their bodies are still organized around the production of one or the other of two gamete sizes. For example, the structures around the gonads would probably be used in diagnosis:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramesonephric_duct
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesonephric_duct
Lumidaub@feddit.org 10 months ago
There’s nothing about the production of gametes in there.
powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
My point is that those are some of the secondary structures you’d examine in the case of missing gonads. Nobody is born with a body plan that just has no concept of producing gametes. That’s the point of saying “organized around”.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 10 months ago
So it’s not the size of gametes but some secondary structures vaguely involved in the development of structures that are involved in the production of gametes. Did I get that right?