PSYB64H3 Chapter Notes -Chromosome Abnormality, Chromosome, Osteoporosis
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Children prefer same sex toys even before they have been influenced to choose them. Also seen in monkeys; male monkeys prefer wheels and sticks while female prefer dolls and plus and pots. This suggests that part of the toy selection of male or female is somewhat biological. Bad circumcision, doctors thought should be raised as a girl. Months later, brenda developing nicely as girl, then downhill. Brenda knew he should be a boy by grade two when he dreamed of growing up a man. By 14, even after two years of female hormone therapy, he refused to live as a girl. Exposed to an x0 chromosome instead of a xx or xy. We learned the x chromosome is enough to develop a pretty normal person. However the lack of a second sex chromosome does have an impact on fertility, growth and hormone production and is associated with diabetes, osteoporosis, and cardiovascular diease. Have normal female genitalia, but ovaries are abnormal.
