…and things have only gotten worse. Just imagine what 10 years of scientific socialism could have done with this information. lenin-rage

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    Time for some Intersex Fun Facts with Lyudmila! frizz-lecture

    The mother in the article described as having cells from two individuals has an intersex condition called 46, XX/46, XY or tetragametic chimerism. The arrangement of the differentiated cells in her body will follow a mosaic pattern, identifiable on the skin level along Blaschko’s lines.

    Some chimeric individuals may even have a visible striped pattern of two different skin tones, but it’s typically only visible under blacklight. Here’s an example of a mosaic skin condition which shows one of these patterns in a visually apparent difference of skin tone along Blaschko’s lines. The individual photographed may or may not be chimeric, they have a skin condition unrelated to chimerism: