It is as if people collectively lost their minds. From an article suggested by my browser at work:
Is the author of this piece insane (aside from a very bad writer)? Nobody checks chromosomes “at birth.” When the baby is born, one can see what sex it is by observing its sex organs. With eyes. That are located on our faces for a reason. However, science allows us not to determine anything “at birth” anymore. I knew I was having a girl at 12 weeks of pregnancy back in 2015. I’m sure since then science has advanced to where you can know even earlier.
Leaving that aside, though, how does this journalist imagine a baby’s birth? “Honey, did you see her chromosomes?” a happy mother exclaims. “I now know she’s a girl!”
Of course, any discussion of chromosomes these days leads to the same place:
Jennifer Graves, a geneticist from La Trobe University told NPR, “I don’t think that one can assume that just because [Y chromosomes] are there and they do something useful they’ll be there forever and ever. A small accident could tip it over the edge, or the evolution of a new sex-determining system that works better.”
The Y chromosome is disappearing. Here’s what it means for men (msn.com)
Color me downright shocked that “sex determination at birth” led to “a new sex-determining system” within a few paragraphs.
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