Re: Gender determination (wasOT: Re: What? The clean-shaven outnumber the bearded?)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Ellis" <nihilsum@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 6:04 AM
Subject: Re: Gender determination (wasOT: Re: What? The clean-shaven
outnumber the bearded?)


> Jake X wrote:
>
> >I've always made jokes about being a YY baby, which would
> >only be possible as a child of a gay couple, though the child
> >would be very messed up for lacking necessary genes found
> >on the X chromosome.  A YY would be a real hunk though...
>
> I don't recall the exact details of what I was told in high school
biology,
> but I think it was that the very rare YY is either hydrocephalic or
> anencephalic and dies almost immediately.
>
> M
>
But either way, a gay(male) couple could potentially make an XX baby or an
XY baby, as long  as they had some kind of weird apparatus.

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