Does she need to have testicles to produce testosterone, right?

  • norimee@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    22
    ·
    3 months ago

    All people have both testosterone, the male “sex hormone” and estrogen, the female "sex hormone. They just produce it different quantities. Both are needed for all people.

    There are a lot of very normal and quite frequent medical reasons why a person’s hormone levels can be mixed up and for a woman (afab) to have a high testosterone level or for a man (amab) a high estrogen level.

    Women (XX) produce testosterone in mostly their ovaries and adrenal glands.

    Men (XY) synthesize estrogen in the Leydig cells and the germ cells in their testis.