"Genetics For Dummies"

If you have one or more "Y" chromosomes, then you are a biological male.

• A normal male has an "XY" chromosome pair.
• A male with Klinefelter's Syndrome has "XXY."
• A male with Supermale Syndrome has "XYY."

If you have no "Y" chromosomes, then you are a biological female.

• A normal female has an "XX" chromosome pair.
• A female with Turner's Syndrome has one "X."
• There are females known as XY-females, but these are really biological males who had suffered an "unfortunate" injury while in the womb or during birth and were raised as females.

There may be other combinations that I am not aware of, but it is the presence or absence of a "Y" chromosome that determines whether you are male or female.

However, these syndromes are extremely rare; and those who were born with them generally have physical deformities. Therefore, if you were born a healthy male, you can safely assume that you have an XY chromosome pair; and if you were born a healthy female, then you can safely assume that you have an XX chromosome pair.

I realize that there are transsexual and intersexual people who feel that they were born the "wrong" gender.

I appreciate your perspective, but that is a psychological issue, not a genetics issue.

Furthermore, I understand that transsexual and intersexual people disagree with all this for political reasons. Unfortunately for you, these are scientific facts.

If you don't like it, then flame God, not me.

I respect your right to be gay, so please respect my right to be straight.