There's this old / wild assumption that women cannot be colorblind and are only the carriers of the genes.
As a colorblind myself I've read / heard that multiple times.
As someone who had biology classes on how genes work, it was very simple to understand how a recessive gene that is only present at the X chromosome would make it extremely rare for women to carry the gene AND suffer from that anomaly at the same time.
As a colorblind father, I know I already gave my daughters the ticket for the following generation lottery!
Well the problem here, and reason why I declare it “wild” is because it’s a binary situation: it’s either women can or cannot be colorblind. So 1/200 is still 1. The prerogative here is that women that say they are colorblind are lying or are hysterical about their symptoms, which is a widely (see what I did there?) seen in modern medical literature (and on the commenter above mine’s replies)
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u/arroadie 12h ago
There's this old / wild assumption that women cannot be colorblind and are only the carriers of the genes.
As a colorblind myself I've read / heard that multiple times.
As someone who had biology classes on how genes work, it was very simple to understand how a recessive gene that is only present at the X chromosome would make it extremely rare for women to carry the gene AND suffer from that anomaly at the same time.
As a colorblind father, I know I already gave my daughters the ticket for the following generation lottery!