A Real Study: Internal Organs Have Sexual Identity

There are a lot of things that don't seem to makes sense, and many of them are studies. Now there are researchers trying to tell us our bodily organs can have different sexual identities. I'm not making this up; it's the truth. We're not talking about genitalia, which would make sense. They are suggesting a person's liver may have one sexual identity and their kidneys may have another sexual identity. Could one lung have one sexual identity and the other lung have a different sexual identity? Yeah, I'm not making this up, it's for real.

Below are excerpts from the story in bold and my valuable insights in italics.

Until now, it has been assumed that, apart from the reproductive system, organs such as the kidneys or the pancreas are the same in both males and females, although circulating hormones cause them to function differently. New research in fruit flies, however, has discovered a set of genes, also present in mammals, that may underlie differences between "male" and "female" organs, quite apart from any hormonal effects.

(Sarcasm alert) Well if a fruit fly has internal organs with different sexual identities, I guess it has to be the same for you and me. What does this mean? My stomach is angry at my liver because my liver said my stomach looks fat? My lungs don't talk to my kidneys because they just don't understand what it is like to be lungs? Could my pancreas think my spleen is too chauvinistic to be one of my internal organs?

The gender of the intestine appears to be actively maintained, which means it is also reversible. Dr. Hudry: "Modulating the activity of these genes specifically in stem cells (without affecting overall organismal sex or hormonal sex) can lead to sexual identity reversal: female stem cells behaving like males or male stem cells acting like females."

Wow, they've discovered a way for our internal organs to have a sex change operations. (Sarcasm alert) Can you imagine going to your doctor and trying to explain that your intestines are male intestines trapped inside the body of female intestines and wants to change its sexual identity? Would medical insurance cover such a procedure? How would you know if your intestines are living as their opposite sex prior to their sexual identity conversion? These researchers have a lot of questions to answers.

The interaction between the sex of the donor cells, the sex of the host and the type of stem cells transplanted, he said, could impact the success of stem cell transplantation. Considering all the combinations of donor/recipient sex interaction could improve clinical efficiency.

I read this, and I think tort attorneys are salivating. I'm sure they can't wait for an opportunity to tell a jury how their client had a female liver but a negligent physician transplanted a male liver into them. Their client has suffered irreparable harm from having a male liver as it is unable to assimilate to the rest of the body. The liver watches too much sports, drinks too much beer and enjoys flatulence far more than other parts of the body.

The researchers call for further study to see how this finding translates to humans, as it could have implications for cancer development and how males and females respond to treatment.

Ah, bingo, for the motivation. Researchers can only do so much with the sexual identities of a fruit fly's internal organs. This is going to take quite a bit of money, time, energy and effort to identify who has a male or female kidneys, liver, spleen and more. What happens when the liver wants to watch a romantic film but the kidneys want to watch sports? I think this could lead to another study, more money and employment for researchers for a long time.

Below is a link to the story.

Press Release: sexual identity of internal organs study.