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Daniel declared:

> Tonight's post from the Archives would seem to make Aggy very happy .... 
> but we can't have that, can we??
> 
> Quote
> daniel bishop
> 25/11/1992 23:27:027 UTC
> 
> Though it was never completed, The Nightmare Fair, released as a 
> novelization, is supposedly part of the "official cannon", according to 
> The Terrestrial Index. If so....SPOILER WARNING
> 
> The Celestial Toymaker identifies the Doctor by his gene-print. Surely, 
> then, regeneration somehow avoids changing the genetic makeup of a Time 
> Lord. This makes it unlikely that a male (XY) will become a female (XX). 
> But it might mean that a male could LOOK like a female, because the 
> Doctor's hair color changes, and that is an example of genetic 
> determinism. Regeneration, then, somehow overrides the genes.
>
> End Quote
> It seems to me that BOTH the Male and the Female pairs of GENEs
> have (at least) one 'X' Gene/Chromozone/Whatever .... so could
> the Sex determinants stuff be carried on that 'X' bizzo??
>
> If not, Why not??

It’s typical mammal-centric thinking! Even here on Earth, bird and
insect species don’t use our mammalian XY chromosomes to
determine sex. Why should an alien species use them too?

-- 
solar penguin