Re: From the Archives.....

solar penguin wrote on 10/11/24 11:03 pm:

Daniel declared:
 

Tonight's post from the Archives would seem to make Aggy very happy ....
but we can't have that, can we??
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daniel bishop
25/11/1992 23:27:027 UTC
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Though it was never completed, The Nightmare Fair, released as a
novelization, is supposedly part of the "official cannon", according to
The Terrestrial Index. If so....SPOILER WARNING
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The Celestial Toymaker identifies the Doctor by his gene-print. Surely,
then, regeneration somehow avoids changing the genetic makeup of a Time
Lord. This makes it unlikely that a male (XY) will become a female (XX).
But it might mean that a male could LOOK like a female, because the
Doctor's hair color changes, and that is an example of genetic
determinism. Regeneration, then, somehow overrides the genes.
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It seems to me that BOTH the Male and the Female pairs of GENEs
have (at least) one 'X' Gene/Chromozone/Whatever .... so could
the Sex determinants stuff be carried on that 'X' bizzo??
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If not, Why not??

 It’s typical mammal-centric thinking! Even here on Earth, bird and
insect species don’t use our mammalian XY chromosomes to
determine sex. Why should an alien species use them too?
 

And I suppose, in this modern world in which we live, being born XY or XX doesn't determine who/what you might grow up to be!!
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Daniel