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If concerened check your local water quality report, or test your well
If the level is low talk to your dentist about trying to make up for it
If the ground water has a very high level of flouride, then take the precautions recommended by your local health department
www.cdc.gov/fluoridation...
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I know this comes across as very ovary = female, and I'm not trying to make the case that ovaries are the end all be all definition of female on an individual level.
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One link has a clear quick description of how early development isn't clear cut. The other discusses how assumptions about female development being the default skewed research towards a focus on male development.
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biomedicalodyssey.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2017/09/its-...
genderedinnovations.stanford.edu/case-studies...
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I think this everything that's not male is automatically female reasoning is flawed, and just reinforces the idea that sex is a strict binary. We start off with sex chromosomes that are very likely to guide development one way or another, but sexual development begins in a very ambiguous way.
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Not everything fits into a strict binary. Sexual development is complex and just because a cell is not male doesn't automatically make it female. Likewise there are fully formed adult humans who don't fit neatly into male and female buckets.
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Can you show me a source that says conception is a point before the fusion of the egg and sperm into a single cell? I found two definitions, one is when the cells fuse, creating a diploid zygote, and the other, which was new to me, is at a much later point when implantation occurs.
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Sperm typically cary either an X or a Y chromosome. Generally as soon as a sperm fuses with an egg the the Y chromosome is present if there is ever going to be one.
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Sex on an individual level is complicated. The executive order denying the existence of intersex people is stupid.
Gamete size is however a pretty standard way to distinguish males and females on a species level. Within any given species eggs are much larger than sperm.
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I suspect they didn't just go with just chromosomes because it's too grossly overly simplistic even for them.
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Sex is not one simple thing. Generalizations are good for taking about a species, but everything can get very messy at an individual level. Some people are chimeras with a mix of xx and xy cells. There is even a case study of an SRY-deleted 47,XXY female who gave birth to biological children.
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Sadly they will probably increase pressure for young kids to get surgery. The exact thing they pretended they were against.
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Humans that have y chromosomes typically have them as soon as the egg and sperm fuse.
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Females have large reproductive cells (eggs). Males have small ones (sperm/pollen). In some species all the individuals produce reproductive cells of the same size. Not all people produce reproductive cells at all. Reproductive cells don't define a humans gender.
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I feel like I just said a person can't be female without a fully functioning reproductive system, and I don't mean that. I'm just trying to say sex differentiation is complicated.
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One x chromosome typically isn't enough for people to develope a functioning female reproductive systems. Female is not just the default state, more needs to happen than just not having an sry gene for normal female development.
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It's so weird to try to force everything into the binary, especially in this context
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These things never take intersex people into consideration because doing so would destroy all of their arguments
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I was informed that this sounds like some sort of joke. It's not www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK557...
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In early development we are not phenotypically female, we start with a cloaca
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Pictures open.lib.umn.edu/evosex/chapt... If anyone knows a good video I would love to see it.
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Pictures because character limit: open.lib.umn.edu/evosex/chapt...
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I'd also say undifferentiated embryos are not female either. For a lot of tissues, we start tissuethat can go either way, and for others, we have both types of tissue and one of the other degrades later.
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It is absolutely aimed at making it difficult for trans people to exist in public spaces. It will also make things miserable for intersex people. And it will also put a target on any cis women who don't look feminine enough.
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Don't forget intersex people exist too
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We start the same but not female open.lib.umn.edu/evosex/chapt... we start with some structures that can go either way and with both sets of a pair of ducts where one or the other typically degrades
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This is not accurate. We don't all start female. We do however begin very ambiguous and undifferentiated. (Intersex people are real, and trans people should be recognized as their preferred gender.)
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It's a very flexible way to keep track of notes and to do items. It has a lot of emphasis on reviewing priorities regularly.
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There were other programs that I suspect were more effective in getting people to actually reduce water consumption and did so without encouraging creating fire hazards. Watering early, switching to drip irrigation, and planting drought tolerant plants.
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So the opposite of the "brown is the new green" campaign encouraging everyone to let their plants die until they can afford a water wise landscaping project
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Work took away bottled water (I think the real problem was the bad water cups at the dispenser). Suddenly there was a run on all the flavored beverages. They congratulated themselves on people using fewer plastic water bottles. I really wish they had looked at all types of plastic bottles.