How I think about CAIS in 60 seconds!

[@daynestark]

I have CAIS and often people ask if it would be fair for me to compete in the olympics. I tell them i actually have more of a disadvantage than the other biological female athletes because they can react to testosterone and i cant! Thanks for this video

[@Satellitegirl41]

Same here.

[@xteam3129]

people with XY are taller

[@xteam3129]

Then why are they so overrepresented in female sports

[@JosephRochefort-g1l]

I probably have MAIS. the mild version of AIS. Small genitals, no body hair until it started to grow about age 26. Body still long and lean at age 30. Fertility very very low, almost infertile. A friend suggested I get a workup with blood tests but I really don't see the point of it at my stage of life.

[@tekcomputers]

@@xteam3129 wrong..... further growth resulting in generally taller stature on average in males is a response by the slowing of bone plate fusing in response to androgens..... those with CAIS are androgen insensitive. Their bone plates fuse earlier like females and thus are general shorter in stature.

[@citizensurgeon]

CAIS is an important diagnosis to make for pediatric surgeons

[@子芸徐-e7d]

Hi, Doctor,I have been following this controversy, and here is a summary of the information I have gathered so far. 1.CAIS patients, even if their testosterone levels reach the range of physiological males, cannot gain any advantage in sports competitions compared to physiological females because the testosterone does not have an effect. 2.CAIS patients do not have menstrual periods. Are they correct?

[@citizensurgeon]

Exactly right for answers 1 and 2, the increased testosterone provides no benefit because they can’t respond to it and secondly, the testes secrete anti mullerian hormone so there are no internal female genital structures, no uterus, no upper 2/3 of the vagina, no fallopian tubes, no ovaries so there are no menstrual cycles and they cannot conceive.

[@子芸徐-e7d]

@@citizensurgeon I got it, thank you!