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A comment on A village where little girls turn into boys aged twelve (2015). Parent comment

Re:A village where little girls turn into boys aged twelve (... by toasterlovin on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @12:49PM (#15295826)
Another perspective:

If you consider a gender to be the distinct set of behaviors that achieve the highest genetic fitness for their matched biological sex, then there is likely to be much less variation than current political discourse would suggest.

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Re:A village where little girls turn into boys aged twelve (... by chiefalchemist on Thursday September 21, 2017 @01:28PM (#15305666)
Why would that lead to less variation? What would cause hormones to not (say) bell curve? And hormones are just one piece in the puzzle.

There are, for example, a diversity of hair color, and that changes over a lifetime. Why would DNA's natural "experiments" with regards to gender be any different?

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