Back in World War II, some Allied saboteurs decided that Hitler might be too
distracted to fight a war if he turned female or at least "had his moustache
fall off and turned soprano".  The plan was to make his gardener inject lots
of estrogen, progestin, etc., into the food.

Wouldn't work, of course. The "window of opportunity" as it were (Ie,
puberty) was LOONG gone. Testosterone makes the voice grow deeper and
body-hair increase durning pubhood, but estrogen doesn't affect voice,
hair, ect. at all.

Cool - maybe Pascal isn't a dead language after all!

No, it isn't. But I prefer C. ;)

There are no specifically female sex-linked traits, except when activated
by hormones. Even if a woman gets two goofy X's for gene for MPbaldness,
she will not go bald because it's ultimately triggered by DHT, which women
don't produce.

I thought that if a girl got the goofy X instead of the good X from her mom,
and her dad gave her a goofy X (assuming this goof doesn't kill him before
adulthood) then she would display the goof as well (assuming this goof,
unlike M.P.B., doesn't rely on hormones she doesn't have).  But do any goofs
like that exist?

Yes, if the haemophilia gene didn't kill the father, then he passes it on
with his X to his daughters. If the mother is a carrier, then half her
children, male or female, would be in peril.

However, sex-linked disorders puts males at a very particular disadvantage
because they only have one copy of the X. Females can get away with having
a defective X if they have a normal one as well, but males MUST avoid the
gene altogether.

A way to think about it is that, for females, a recessive gene on the X
acts like any recessive gene, but for males, it acts like a dominant gene
because that's the only copy he has.

Another good point.  A lot of standards can apply to both genders equally.
Remember last spring when Marisa posted her list of what she wanted in a
boyfriend and Kun-chan answered almost all the questions?

O.O;,; Kun-chan? Is there something you're not telling us? @_@

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