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At the end of the day you need to find them and this is hard. A more practical strategy is to group the chromosomes in a way that gives you the desired ratio.

For example, if you have 4 male speakers

XY XY XY XY

Simply rearrange to form 2 females. The residual, YY is dead.

XX XX YY YY



So you have two females, 0 males, and 2...aliens?


The yy are dead




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