**Fay Maritela Marinera** @faymm · 11 déc. 2017, 12:09

**Fay Maritela Marinera** @faymm · 11 déc. 2017, 12:09

Fay Maritela Marinera @faymm

11 déc. 2017, 12:09

Sex isn’t chromosomes: the story of a century of misconceptions about X & Y Afficher plus

https://www.newstatesman.com/future-proof/2015/02/sex-isn-t-chromosomes-story-century-misconceptions-about-x-y

"the invention of the sex chromosome concept – one that Richardson argues we should reject entirely as a mistake that has led to bad science, societal prejudice and widespread misunderstanding of what sex really is."

“the science of sex has, for some years now, recognised that sexual characteristics exist on a spectrum – not as a binary”

**Fay Maritela Marinera** @faymm · 11 déc. 2017, 12:19

**Fay Maritela Marinera** @faymm · 11 déc. 2017, 12:19

11 déc. 2017, 12:19

Fay Maritela Marinera @faymm

Sex isn’t chromosomes: the story of a century of misconceptions about X & Y Afficher plus

“there are extremely few sexual characteristics solely controlled by the presence or absence of a Y chromosome – and just as there are plenty of characteristics controlled by genes found on other chromosomes, the “sex” chromosomes also carry genes that determine traits that have nothing to do with sex.”

**Fay Maritela Marinera** @faymm · 11 déc. 2017, 12:20

**Fay Maritela Marinera** @faymm · 11 déc. 2017, 12:20

11 déc. 2017, 12:20

Fay Maritela Marinera @faymm

Sex isn’t chromosomes: the story of a century of misconceptions about X & Y Afficher plus

“The X is dubbed the ‘female chromosome’, takes the feminine pronoun ‘she’, and has been described as the ‘big sister’ to ‘her derelict brother that is the Y’ and as the ‘sexy’ chromosome. The X is frequently associated with the mysteriousness and variability of the feminine, as in a 2005 Science article headlined ‘She Moves in Mysterious Ways’ and beginning, ‘The human X chromosome is a study in contradictions’. The X is also described in traditionally gendered terms as the more ‘sociable’, ‘controlling’, ‘conservative’, ‘monotonous’, and ‘motherly’ of the two sex chromosomes. (1/2)

**Fay Maritela Marinera** @faymm · 2017-12-11T12:21:01Z

Fay Maritela Marinera @faymm

Sex isn’t chromosomes: the story of a century of misconceptions about X & Y Afficher plus

(2/2) Similarly, the Y is a ‘he’ and ascribed traditional masculine qualities – ‘macho’, ‘active’, ‘clever’, ‘wily’, ‘dominant’, and also ‘degenerate’, ‘lazy’, and ‘hyperactive’.”

11 déc. 2017, 12:21 · 0 · 0

**Fay Maritela Marinera** @faymm · 11 déc. 2017, 12:21

**Fay Maritela Marinera** @faymm · 11 déc. 2017, 12:21

11 déc. 2017, 12:21

Fay Maritela Marinera @faymm

Sex isn’t chromosomes: the story of a century of misconceptions about X & Y Afficher plus

“The idea of the X and Y carrying “sex itself” was entrenched, helped by the fashionable eugenics of the time that saw biology as the justification for a range of racist, sexist and classist prejudices.”