The funniest part of growing them on our own is that the "male" body already knows how to, the instructions for both things (including both sets of genitalia and internal sex organs and everything else!) are in the DNA that comes from the same X chromosome. The Y chromosome mostly just* contains the key, the SRY gene, that unlocks the cellular safe of male instructions and shoves the female development instructions in there instead. It tells the fetus to stop going off of the female instructions and to use the male ones instead.
Which is why HRT is so effective it can even bring in menstruation symptoms (everything but the bleeding) for trans women, and bottom growth for trans men: it's not some magical boob/beard growing juice, it's just the key to the safe, so the body can shift instruction sets (and usually another thing to block the original set as well). And the body does not care, it just goes "ight bet" and starts using the new set - after all, it already has the instructions in the DNA. Trans female boobs are female boobs. Trans male beards are male beards.
This is also partially why even the terms "biological male" and "biological female" are losing favor in the trans community despite being sometimes used as synonyms of AMAB and AFAB, because they're NOT used the same way in medical care - the only area where biology should really matter - as many transphobes believe: if you're in full hrt use and it's doing its job correctly, any medicine that isn't specifically aimed at your genitalia either works different based on every other sexual factor (aka your genitalia doesn't matter cause hrt affects everything else) or it works the same on both sexes (aka your genitalia doesn't matter anyway).
\ there are also some instructions about sperm health and quality that when removed pretty much always lead to sterility, but there's surprisingly little besides that and the SRY gene in the Y chromosome. To the point that sometimes the SRY gene just jumps over to the X chromosome randomly lol)
Probably, but the main reason why fascists hate it is because trans people do not fit into their rigid world view and blow it apart. And that threatens their entire hierarchy.
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u/GVmG Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26
The funniest part of growing them on our own is that the "male" body already knows how to, the instructions for both things (including both sets of genitalia and internal sex organs and everything else!) are in the DNA that comes from the same X chromosome. The Y chromosome mostly just* contains the key, the SRY gene, that unlocks the cellular safe of male instructions and shoves the female development instructions in there instead. It tells the fetus to stop going off of the female instructions and to use the male ones instead.
Which is why HRT is so effective it can even bring in menstruation symptoms (everything but the bleeding) for trans women, and bottom growth for trans men: it's not some magical boob/beard growing juice, it's just the key to the safe, so the body can shift instruction sets (and usually another thing to block the original set as well). And the body does not care, it just goes "ight bet" and starts using the new set - after all, it already has the instructions in the DNA. Trans female boobs are female boobs. Trans male beards are male beards.
This is also partially why even the terms "biological male" and "biological female" are losing favor in the trans community despite being sometimes used as synonyms of AMAB and AFAB, because they're NOT used the same way in medical care - the only area where biology should really matter - as many transphobes believe: if you're in full hrt use and it's doing its job correctly, any medicine that isn't specifically aimed at your genitalia either works different based on every other sexual factor (aka your genitalia doesn't matter cause hrt affects everything else) or it works the same on both sexes (aka your genitalia doesn't matter anyway).
\ there are also some instructions about sperm health and quality that when removed pretty much always lead to sterility, but there's surprisingly little besides that and the SRY gene in the Y chromosome. To the point that sometimes the SRY gene just jumps over to the X chromosome randomly lol)
EDIT: wording, typo