merry christmas to everyone who didn’t get presents today because their family couldn’t afford it and merry christmas to everyone who couldn’t make it home for the holidays and merry christmas to everyone spending it alone i want you all to know that i hope you all have a great great end of the year and i love you all and even if your holidays weren’t how you pictured them i hope you still have a good rest of the holidays and year
If Jesus was born from a virgin birth, doesn’t that mean he has only an X chromosome. Wouldn’t that make him female?
wait
TRANS JESUS TRANS JESUS TRANS JESUS
I have taken 3 years of Theology, 1 of Apologetics, and 1 of Anatomy and Physiology and I’m honesty stumped by this one
Those species which are parthenogenic (i.e. self-fertilising, certain lizards, snakes, frogs and fish) the offspring is always genetically/physically female-typical. So yeah, if we were to take the nativity as a scientific story, a parthenogenic human pregnancy (still a scientific impossibility) would result in an AFAB child, and since that child has always been referred to as “he”, voila, trans jesus.
Sex determination is a complex and fascinating field. As far as I can tell, here are our possibilities.
It seems Mary did, in fact, undergo
parthenogenesis. As stated above, offspring produced from partho varies. For example, snakes have ZW chromosomes with females being ZW
and males being ZZ, so a female can produce male OR female offspring in this way.
In addition to this, some reptiles use
temp-dependent sexing! This means it’s possible that Jesus was a male because Mary laid him in
an appropriate-temperature manger.
And then we come on to intersex conditions. For
example: Jesus could have been XX, but had congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), causing
his outward appearance to become masculinized. A myriad of other conditions could have led to a similar consequence.
So, in
conclusion: reptile Jesus, intersex Jesus and trans Jesus are all viable options, and i support a combination of the three.
Or how about Mary being a chimera, having male gonads (improbably, but not impossibly) surviving inside her body from a devoured male twin, and being self-fertile?
Tomorrow is Christmas! And you know what that means… MORE SHAKESPEAREAN CHRISTMAS CAROLS!
If you’re in the mood for more Shakespearean Christmas Carols, check out my first installment and be sure to read the reader-submitted ones in the comments, including two different takes on Carol of the Bells and another jab at King Lear.
Happy holidays to all of you! I will be taking next week off, but will see you back here in 2016. It’s been a busy and exciting year for me, and I am so very thankful to all of you for reading and supporting my work. I am looking forward to another year of sharing Shakespearean silliness with you!