Photo credit: Babatunde OlajideLekki - Ikoyi Link Bridge, Nigeria. Although seldom reported, variances in Klinefelter’s Syndrome are only rare in the sense they are rarely reported. Usually this type of variant is documented as Androgen Insensitivity (AIS) and mostly because…
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…
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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…
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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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…
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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.
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…
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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Of the key people in their lives, doctors, mothers and friends were most likely to know about their variations, principals and priests/spiritual advisors were least likely to know. Participants were most likely to have experienced supportive responses from a friend, partner, sister or mother; and least likely to have had a supportive response from people at school.
