gonads

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Whether early gonads become ovaries or testes is due to cells either becoming Sertoli cells for testes, or pregranulosa cells for ovaries.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2023

If this doesn't happen, the gonads default to become ovaries.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2023

Currently, transgender people who want to have their biologically assigned gender changed on family registries and other official documents must be diagnosed as having Gender Identity Disorder and undergo an operation to remove their gonads.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2023

Some even retain their stomach contents and gonads.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2023

Sublethal levels of the chemical halt cell division in the gonads.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson