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I often wonder if people "born in the wrong body" might be chimeras

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metspitzer

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Sep 29, 2008, 12:57:05 PM9/29/08
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I often wonder if people "born in the wrong body" might be chimeras

-Elizabeth-

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Oct 3, 2008, 5:39:11 AM10/3/08
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On Sep 30, 12:57 am, metspitzer <metspit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I often wonder if people "born in the wrong body" might be chimeras

Please elaborate what you mean.

-Elizabeth

metspitzer

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Oct 3, 2008, 4:53:18 PM10/3/08
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On Oct 3, 5:39 am, -Elizabeth- <eratedr...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> On Sep 30, 12:57 am,metspitzer<metspit...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I often wonder if people "born in the wrong body" might be chimeras
>
> Please elaborate what you mean.
>
> -Elizabeth

Chimeras can be a set of twins fused into one body. They have two
sets of DNA.

They don't really know how rare the condition is. Maybe people born
in the wrong body are a male/female set of twins.

CSI had a show about this condition.

I would guess that all hermaphrodites are chimeras.

I don't' calm to know anything about it. It was an interesting
thought I had. Nothing to back it up.

-Elizabeth-

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Oct 5, 2008, 10:04:16 PM10/5/08
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Ah, so you're not talking about half animal half human chimeras. Phew.

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metspitzer

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Oct 5, 2008, 11:41:20 PM10/5/08
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On Oct 5, 11:25 pm, Arctic Stone <arcticst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> metspitzer<metspit...@gmail.com>:

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> > I often wonder if people "born in the wrong body" might be chimeras
>
> My guess is "probably not", since I'm quite certain that the prep-work for
> a sex-change operation would include tests that would detect chimeras.
> For it to have been so early that there was only one body, with no
> strange duplication of organs/tissues, is rather slim; chimeras is not a
> common occurence.
>
> Arctic

Are you sure that they do test for chimera in sex change operations?
I really would like to know the answer to that.
Do you know what they do to test for it? I wonder where they would
take the samples from?

I have never read where they explain hemaphrodites as chimeras.

Like I have said, I don't know. I would be interested in hearing
more.


suzee

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Oct 6, 2008, 1:41:44 PM10/6/08
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Hermaphrodites are not always chimeras; they have both male and female
sexual organs. This is due to the hormones exposed to during preganancy
and not because they have a `twin' within them.

sue

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