Other than sex differentiation at birth there is little evidence for any further differentiation in men and women due to sex chromosomes. It does not follow that chromosomes should be an explanation of gender identity either since there is no reasonable correlation. While chromosomes do influence sexual organs, what people usually refer to as “biological sex”, gender and gender norms are a product of the society in which they are expressed. Our western society has ideas of masculine and feminine that are conflated with XX and XY. For this reason, genomics neither explain nor refute the possibility of transgender identities, however, the huge amount of transgender people in our population provides convincing evidence of the existence of trans
Other than sex differentiation at birth there is little evidence for any further differentiation in men and women due to sex chromosomes. It does not follow that chromosomes should be an explanation of gender identity either since there is no reasonable correlation. While chromosomes do influence sexual organs, what people usually refer to as “biological sex”, gender and gender norms are a product of the society in which they are expressed. Our western society has ideas of masculine and feminine that are conflated with XX and XY. For this reason, genomics neither explain nor refute the possibility of transgender identities, however, the huge amount of transgender people in our population provides convincing evidence of the existence of trans