Bob Blaylock
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- Aug 22, 2015
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Your opinion that a man can have ovaries is certainly, bizarre. And regardless if right or wrong, if you can link to one man in the 5 billion people on earth, that has ovaries, all that proves is that he was born genetically defective.
Really, the gonads are the core of what distinguishes male from female. What kind of gametes one produces. There are all manner of genetic and hormonal defects that can alter the development of other sex-related physical characteristics, but my understanding is that in mammals, the gonads are directly linked to the chromosomes—XY gonads will develop into testes, and if they become functional, they will produce sperm cells, while XX gonads will develop into ovaries, and if they become functional, they will produce ova. Any of the extra X or extra Y patterns tend to produce nonfunctional gonads.
If, out of all the things that can go wrong with the development of sex-related physical characteristics, I had to pick something that definitively defined one as a man or as a woman, that would be it. Ultimately, if one is capable of participating in the procreative process, that is what would determine whether one participated as a man, by producing sperm, or as a woman, by producing ova.
I would have to therefore say that by definition, a man cannot have ovaries, unless he's a chimera or mosaic, having both testes and ovaries, in which case he/'s not really a man or a woman, but a hermaphrodite. I don't know if such a human is possible, if such a human has ever existed. Such a person is the main character in a bizarre Robert Heinlein story, titled All You Zombies, and in the movie based on that story, titled Predestination.