[MaggieL]

It was a recent show on Discovery channel or some such....the factoid claims that the ratio of the length of ring finger to index finger relates to fetal testosterone levels.

The ratio is fairly reliable. I was more interested to see the woman with androgen insensitivity sytndrome. She struck me as being physically very similar in appearance to many male-to-female transsexuals in having a large frame, tall, with large hands. Her voice, however, was distinctly feminin in pitch as well as in modulation.

Genotypically, she is XY, and thus by many standards "male". But while she has no uterus, for my money she's female.

Gwen just got done relating to me a story of a USAF fighter pilot who was genotyped and discovered to be XX; theorhetically female. He found it difficult to deal with when he was forced to retire from combat status (and indeed from the USAF) as a woman, despite having fathered several children.

Also interesting was the segment on a female-to-male transsexual starting his hormone therapy; we see him before and a few months into the therapy. Testing at HUP, including brain scans and psychological testing showed dramatic shifts in mental function after only a few months of testosterone therapy.

He remeinded me very much of a lover I had once....slept with him when he was a woman, and now he's way-deep into testosterone treatments. Very mind-bending.

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