[conspire] Gee thanks #47, now made everyone female by law, ... what next?

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2025, at 4:22 AM, Michael Paoli wrote:
>  Basically, the early, default configuration of a human foetus is
>  female. If we were to assign a sex at conception as per #47's
>  executive order, all of them would be female.

Someone on r/medicine (of course) raised an even more interesting wrinkle: sperm and eggs are not the only reproductive cells. Much like red blood cells go through massive changes in development (via one of my favorite words: erythropoeisis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythropoiesis ), so do sperm and egg cells via spermatogenesis or oogenesis.

Anyhow, while the final human egg is approximately 10,000 times larger than the human sperm, some of the reproductive cells are smaller/larger than the final form.

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  Deirdre Saoirse Moen
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