If I’m not mistaken, lactation only occurs during pregnancy or after birth when the body has the correct hormones. I have never heard of non-pregnant women randomly lactating, yet there are men who do.
I understand men can develop the correct “equipment,” but why would they be experiencing the hormones needed to cause milk production when they aren’t pregnant? Women are capable of pregnancy but their bodies don’t make milk randomly.
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Women and men have all the same chromosomes. (blueprints inside our cells that tell the cells what to do). Except that women have an extra copy of one chromosome (X) and men have different one instead (Y). The Y chromosome is just a tiny addon and the entire body blueprint is stored in the other chromosomes. That means men are technically women with some adjustments done to them while in womb and also during puberty. If those adjustments don’t happen properly the body defaults to female.
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