... If I'm trans and I need to get dna tested to prove my siblings are my siblings so they can get their birth certificates... But my assigned gender, and my blood tests disagree.... Will that fuck it up? Do chromosomes change like that? Any #genetics people know?
Update: I'm adopting the twitter consensus of "it doesn't work that way, Kieryn" and I am less stressed out now. 💙
@bluepupboi i still have this in my reading list https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/science/mosaicism-dna-genome-cancer.html
but the gist is basically: genetics are complicated
@bluepupboi Not a geneticist, but as far as I know chromosomes don't change like that. It's highly unlikely that you're a genetic chimera.
Now ceeding the floor to the more clueful.
@drwho
🤞🤞 I feel like chromosomes should be harder to change than blood, but I am also not a geneticist.
The like one month of reading about it I did in high school didn't cover that :3
@bluepupboi I can ask a couple of people I know if they have any idea. Are you referring to USian legal contexts, or European, or...?
@bluepupboi @drwho chromosomes can't change like that.
Google is not helping me, every result is just ads for diy tests and why you should do them propaganda. 🙃