@Blerd_Life@ibras17@MamaMoose_Be@jhallproduction@EmmaWatson Excellent question! Turns out that the developmental processes that lead to a human being who has biological features typical of people we usually call "male" and to those typical of people we usually call "female" are quite complicated. 1/N@Blerd_Life@ibras17@MamaMoose_Be@jhallproduction@EmmaWatson Very early in embryonic development, the gonads are undifferentiated - they have the potential to develop into testes OR ovaries. If a gene called the SRY gene is present AND it is expressed, the gonads develop into testes. If not, they develop into ovaries. 2/N
@EvaPoen@R_Sanders_SMH@sally_hines@DeborahJaneOrr Bingo! That is the key question, and is so often missed - the difference between WHO one is (how one identifies one's SELF) and WHAT one is (what are the physical bits and arrangements that constitute my body). We appear to be "hard-wired" to know quite a lot about ourselves 1/N@EvaPoen@R_Sanders_SMH@sally_hines@DeborahJaneOrr and about the categories of "thing" in the world - biological vs non-biological; human vs non-human; self vs other. Or at least hard-wired with the capacity to acquire this knowledge very rapidly. It also appears that we are "hard-wired" to categorise other humans 2/N
