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Originally Posted by ThomasTheGiraffe
Like Jamie Lee Curtis for example.
I thought the distinction was as follows;
Transgenders don't correspond -or live- as the sex they were born with. Like the Army guy in the story.
Transsexuals take it a step further and undergo sex reassignment surgery.
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Originally Posted by ThomasTheGiraffe
There's been a story circulating for years she's a hermaphrodite.
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The above is totally incorrect.
It has been RUMORED for decades that Jamie Lee Curtis has a condition known as AIS = Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. The Cliff's are that we are all female at the beginning of development, but at a certain point, if you have a "Y" gene, it causes the release of a group of chemicals called "Androgens" that change the path of development to male. A tiny percentage of the population are insensitive to these chemicals, so the developmental path remains female, and the result is a person born with female sex organs (though usually no uterus), and develops breasts in puberty etc., even though genetically they are "XY".