Sex vs Chromosomes
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X & Y. For a long time, these two letters were thought to be the only thing determining whether you were a male or a female. If your male biological parent’s sperm contained the X chromosome, you would be a female, and if it was a Y chromosome, you’d be a male. But, like all science, recent progress has started to change our perspective.
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