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Category: Intersex
Study Finds Sex Differences in the Brain. Does It Matter?
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…
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Air of Silence
High school photography teacher, Chris Somers, speaks with Phoebe Hart about their experience of XXY of being a child in high school, developing breasts and of the relentless teasing from peers that would eventually lead to Chris undergoing a double…
Intersex Advocate Paul Byrne-Moroney speaks of what it means to be XXY / Intersex on IDAHOBIT Day
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Shifting Syndromes: Sex Chromosome Variations and Intersex Classifications
Original work on Turner syndrome included only women, but a number of published articles identified similar symptom clusters in male individuals. Original work on Klinefelter’s syndrome included only men. Significantly, Klinefelter (1986) always maintained that individuals with this syndrome cluster were unproblematically phenotypic males ‘and should never be considered otherwise’ . However, genetic science in the 1950s would significantly change the classification of individuals with diagnoses of Turner or Klinefelter’s syndromes.
Diagnosing Sex Chromatin: A Binary for Every Cell
In 1949, Canadian anatomist Murray Barr announced the discovery of a peculiar entity in the cell nucleus that was present in females and absent in males. The identity of this entity remained uncertain for a decade even though Barr hypothesised…
Human Sex Chromosome Swapping Occurs More Often Than Previously Thought
It turns out that the rigid "line in the sand" over which the human sex chromosomes -- the Y and X -- go to avoid crossing over is a bit blurrier than previously thought. Contrary to the current scientific consensus,…
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XXY: Lived Experiences
Excerpt from;Intersex: Stories and Statistics from Australia Jones, Hart, Carpenter, Ansara, Leonard & Lucke.Covering areas of Education, Mental Health, Children, Relationships, Sexuality and much more. While the complete study covered several Intersex variations, we have focused on 47 XXY and…
What It's Like to Be Intersex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEXpeq-38Sw “It was like a bomb being dropped into our life.” That’s Isaiah Ngwaru. He’s talking about the moment he and his wife, Betina, discovered their child, Tatenda, was intersex. Although they had been raising her as a boy, Tatenda…
XXY Trailblazer Steps Up To The Podium
University of Central Florida associate lecturer Irene Pons and her legal studies class are striving to help a Central Florida woman revise her birth certificate. Why does Juleigh Mayfield need legal intervention in order to complete such an ordinary task? Because…
