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ZeroDeltaTango 1 point ago +1 / -0

Chromosomes are stored in the balls

So says "Mud Dog"

The Dept. of Medicine at Yale, where actual scientists sometimes gather, says every cell has a sex.

We'll call it even.

For the last 50 years, students have been taught that outside the gonads — reproductive organs where sperm and eggs are produced — cells with XX and XY pairs are functionally equivalent because there is nothing on the Y chromosome that acts outside the testes. They’ve been taught that hormones secreted by the testes and the ovaries, where eggs are produced, are entirely responsible for making the body more masculine or feminine.

But Page argued that there are intrinsic biochemical differences between XX and XY cells that affect tissues and organs across the entire body and have a significant impact independent of sex hormones.

https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/13321/