The XXY community mourns the passing of Fred Diener an XXY trailblazer of San Diego, California, who died on the 23rd of October, aged sixty-five years. Long before KS&A (AXYS) Fred was a pioneer for the XXY community running a support group for Southern California and featured in several news articles of that era about living with XXY.
The Vienna Declaration states that human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated. The VDPA makes clear that “every person is born equal and has the same rights to life and welfare, education and work, living independently and active participation…
Read More U.N Human Rights Council to Investigate Violations and Abuses Against Intersex Persons.
Mayfield, who is intersex, was born 47XXY, meaning she has one additional sex chromosome. This left Mayfield neither completely biologically male nor female, but both. Raised male by her parents, Mayfield transitioned to female after having to be placed on estrogen due to health problems and to save her life.
For those in the community who find themselves piling on weight with or without of exogenous sex hormones, could this be a more probably cause? Scientists have discovered that depressed individuals show higher levels of inflammation as well as elevated…
Read More Depression Causes Inflammation and Metabolic Imbalances
Tells the story of Rob Wilson a Tasmanian Chicken and Pig breeder who also happens to be XXY. Rob was born with two complete sets of male and female gonads and was operated on as a child so they would present more male like in appearance. With the assistance of fertility treatments he went on to 'father' children and by all accounts has lived successfully in that role.
The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that in 2018, obesity impacted about 42 percent of American adults. People with obesity are at higher risk for many diseases, including type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, and stroke; they also tend to generally…
The XXY Project has been asked to share this vital research among the XXY community and beyond and we, in turn, ask you, to share it amongst your networks regardless of what Intersex variation that may be. As with research…
The XXY Project hosts a weekly Zoom catch up every Sunday at 7.45am Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) which is equivalent to Saturday 10.45pm in London, England and Saturday 3.45pm in Colorado, America. We look forward to chatting with you.
Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a neurodevelopmental condition that emerges in early childhood and frequently persists into adulthood. People with DLD have significant difficulty learning, understanding, and using spoken language. Under U.S. Public Law 101-476 (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act…
Read More How We Fail Children With Developmental Language Disorder
FOR Arman Raznahan, publishing research on sex differences is a fraught proposition. Now chief of the section on developmental neurogenomics at the National Institutes of Health, Raznahan learned early that searching for dissimilarities between men’s and women’s brains can have unintended…
Read More Study Finds Sex Differences in the Brain. Does It Matter?
