I browse this forum from time to time and notice the talk of transgendered folk. Since the human body was essentially undifferentiated until about the fifth or sixth week when the gender switch flips on (and those with Y gender chromosomes become males and the others become females). The differentiated organs essentially come from the same tissue buds, so is there any consideration, really, of gene therapy to flip the switches of the trans folk. I know that Japanese researchers have produced sperm cells from eggs and vice versa, and that human nose and ear cartilidge has been grown on the backs of mice, what if ovaries are regrown as testicles or testicles regrown as ovaries and simply moved to a new place? (Just a thought, seems like there would be a bigger market for that than mouse-grown replacement noses for those so unfortunate to have lost their originals). Anyway, here's the link to what started me thinking:http://www.nature.com/gt/journal/v6/n9/pdf/3300981a.pdf.
2007-04-09
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender