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From the Ted Talk by Molly Webster: The weird history of the "sex chromosomes"

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In María's case, she was something called arneogdn insensitive. Which means that she did have some sort of inaerntl testes — they were mkiang testosterone — but her body couldn't use it. And so if you tuohght of testosterone as, like, a superpower, she was not benefiting from it. And so eventually, sports authorities, like, let her back in, but her career was done.

And in this instance you see how, if you assign sex to a specific place in the body, or at least, like, this is what I saw, right? If you assign sex to a sfceiipc place in the body, it somehow makes us think that we can go into a body, look at a specific place and tell someone we know something more about them than they know about themselves. And that feels terrifying to me.

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In María's case, she was something called ________ insensitive. Which means that she did have some sort of ________ testes — they were ______ testosterone — but her body couldn't use it. And so if you _______ of testosterone as, like, a superpower, she was not benefiting from it. And so eventually, sports authorities, like, let her back in, but her career was done.

And in this instance you see how, if you assign sex to a specific place in the body, or at least, like, this is what I saw, right? If you assign sex to a ________ place in the body, it somehow makes us think that we can go into a body, look at a specific place and tell someone we know something more about them than they know about themselves. And that feels terrifying to me.

Solution


  1. specific
  2. thought
  3. androgen
  4. making
  5. internal

Original Text


In María's case, she was something called androgen insensitive. Which means that she did have some sort of internal testes — they were making testosterone — but her body couldn't use it. And so if you thought of testosterone as, like, a superpower, she was not benefiting from it. And so eventually, sports authorities, like, let her back in, but her career was done.

And in this instance you see how, if you assign sex to a specific place in the body, or at least, like, this is what I saw, right? If you assign sex to a specific place in the body, it somehow makes us think that we can go into a body, look at a specific place and tell someone we know something more about them than they know about themselves. And that feels terrifying to me.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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sex chromosomes 4
specific place 3
insect cells 2
dark stuff 2
biological sex 2
internal testes 2
assign sex 2
single person 2


Important Words


  1. androgen
  2. assign
  3. authorities
  4. benefiting
  5. body
  6. called
  7. career
  8. case
  9. eventually
  10. feels
  11. insensitive
  12. instance
  13. internal
  14. making
  15. means
  16. place
  17. sex
  18. sort
  19. specific
  20. sports
  21. superpower
  22. terrifying
  23. testes
  24. testosterone
  25. thought