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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org>
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Subject: Re: From the Archives.....
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:25:06 +1100
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solar penguin wrote on 10/11/24 11:03 pm:
> 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?
> 
And I suppose, in this modern world in which we live, being born XY or 
XX doesn't determine who/what you might grow up to be!!
-- 
Daniel