Intersex Skeleton?

[Guest DisDwarf]

Is it possible to have a male body with a few parts of a female skeleton or female elbow angles or leg bone curvatures? Have you ever heard of something like that?

[Sally]

I have not seen any actual studies to prove or disprove this hypothesis but from personal experience I can tell you that I have never found a comfortable pair of mens shoes, however womens flats fit the shape of my foot perfectly so I am inclined to believe that we might just all have a few of the skeletal bits from our true gender tossed into the mix.

Love ya,

Sally

[Guest N. Jane]

There are no definitive skeletal differences between male and female only generalizations that depend on age, race, and other factors. The only thing that comes close to being an indicator of sex is the hip bone after maturity and even that is a generalization.

[Guest Pól]

There are no definitive skeletal differences between male and female only generalizations that depend on age, race, and other factors. The only thing that comes close to being an indicator of sex is the hip bone after maturity and even that is a generalization.

Thanks, N. Jane! I always wondered about that...good to know. I always thought how they did that on the TV seemed a bit, well, dodgy.

[Guest Elizabeth K]

Some ideas on that subject surface once in a while. Like the fact that a mans ring finger is longer than the digit finger while women will have both about the same length or a longer digit finger.

The most interesting to me is the angle of the elbow assembly. When a man holds his arms straight down, palms toward the front, he can touch the sides of his hands to his thighs (this is while standing). In a woman's skeleton, the elbows arch in and touch her waist, making it impossible for her hands to brush against her hips. Therory is something to do with the ability to cradle an infant.

But skeleton types are so variant.

And then men's chins tend to be square, women's more pointed. Some men have a pronounced brow-ridge.

And me? I always had no Adam's apple. I also have the 'above' tendancies toward a female skeleton with no real brow ridge, and the hand and elbow characteristics. Am I intersexed? Who knows. I am definately taller than a woman would normally be. Go figure.

Lizzy

[Guest viv]

Hi Dis,

Nature can throw any variation into the mix. I know this is not skeletal info

but...if I loose say 14 or so pounds ,13 stone to 12, I have fairly pronounced hips.

I deffo have b/moobs. So yeh, there are ""questionable" likeness"es out there .

Irradiated food, chemicals, lifestyle ,,,,not surprised myself, viv

[Guest Lilith]

The most interesting to me is the angle of the elbow assembly. When a man holds his arms straight down, palms toward the front, he can touch the sides of his hands to his thighs (this is while standing). In a woman's skeleton, the elbows arch in and touch her waist, making it impossible for her hands to brush against her hips. Therory is something to do with the ability to cradle an infant.

Are you sure about that ? I mean... In general men have narrower hips compared to their waist than women, so wouldn't it make sense that

when men hold their arms down and palms front, they would be the ones who have hard time touching their hips/thighs because their elbows

are touching their waist/sides and their hips are too narrow...

I certainly can't... If I stand up straight, with my legs together and hold my arms straight down and palms front, and try and touch my hips

with the sides of my hands, the closest I get is somewhere around 10cm...

[Guest Peggy]

Hi all,

DisDwarf wrote,

Is it possible to have a male body with a few parts of a female skeleton or female elbow angles or leg bone curvatures? Have you ever heard of something like that?

Everyone is an individual and lots of physical features (like stature) vary over a range with areas of overlap between the sexes, even if the averages for each sex are different.

There is no such thing as a "female" elbow angle. This is one physical feature with considerable overlap between the sexes. It is not even clear whether there is a sex difference in the averages.

See Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbow-joint#Carrying_angle

There is, however, extensive overlap in the carrying angle between individual men and women, and a sex-bias has not been consistently observed in scientific studies.

Friendly greetings to all,

Peggy

[Guest Sarah1967]

Some ideas on that subject surface once in a while. Like the fact that a mans ring finger is longer than the digit finger while women will have both about the same length or a longer digit finger.

The most interesting to me is the angle of the elbow assembly. When a man holds his arms straight down, palms toward the front, he can touch the sides of his hands to his thighs (this is while standing). In a woman's skeleton, the elbows arch in and touch her waist, making it impossible for her hands to brush against her hips. Therory is something to do with the ability to cradle an infant.

But skeleton types are so variant.

And then men's chins tend to be square, women's more pointed. Some men have a pronounced brow-ridge.

And me? I always had no Adam's apple. I also have the 'above' tendancies toward a female skeleton with no real brow ridge, and the hand and elbow characteristics. Am I intersexed? Who knows. I am definately taller than a woman would normally be. Go figure.

Lizzy

I tried Standing with my arms straight down palms out I can't touch my thighs with the sides of my hands and my elbows arch in and touch my waist. .