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Originally Posted by Matthew Shea  Wow! 
The misinformation in that article is astounding. Here's my favorite:
This guy doesn't know much about genetics, does he. Don't they teach the X/Y chromosome thing to grade schoolers these days? This guy obviously didn't catch up on that piece of data (or he's selectively ignoring it) which throws the entire rest of the article into suspicion. |
I think what the guy is refering to is that for the first 7 weeks the foetus is undifferentiated and only an examination of the chromosones can indicate the sex. The imput of androgenes triggers the basic organs to to differentiate into male organs.
A foetus with only one X chromosome and no hormonal triggering by the Y chromosome or an insensitivity to androgens will develop external feminine sex organs leading some to say that to get a male hormones must be added by the Y chromosome and the basic development of the foetus is feminine. Does that help clarify what he meant?