Photo by: Harry Cunningham We think you will like this excellent podcast initiative by Elliot Polak, of My XXY - Chromodiversity Foundation that makes understanding research papers a great deal easier for those who yearn for information but fail to grasp the medical language they use. Elliot breaks it down into its raw form and …
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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 mastectomy, it being an experience they would later regret. https://videopress.com/v/fGVjWvb2?preloadContent=metadata
Given the treatment of XXY individuals is (questionably) a sub speciality of Endocrinology it is envisaged that XXY's regardless of how they identify their gender would be exposed to the same difficulties experienced by GD and Trans Individuals.If you are an XXY individual we would love to hear of any difficulties you are experiencing with …
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 her story isn’t so typical. Neither Male or Female Although Mayfield lived four decades of …
Dr Agli Zavros-Orr, who is a Board Member of Intersex Human Rights Australia, speaks with Arion of Joy FM, about what it means to be Intersex.Continue reading.........
If you are a Doctor And consider yourself an expert in all things XXY, then you will never learn anything about us. Adult XXY's often have adversarial relationships with physicians. If you have a patient like that, don't take it personally, it's probably because the medical community has treated us so badly for the last …
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An excerpt from a project by Barbi Gracner, reposted here with the kind permission of the author, someone whom we consider will one day shine a bright light on the rich diversity that is an XXY life. Since childhood, we all learn to wear different masks. They grow with our skin. And it's hard for …
Although long established how age can play a part in the creation of sex variants, researchers have always refrained from blaming either parent outright insisting instead on a 50/50 approach (it keeps marriages together). But now it seems there's a third possibility, that of the fetus itself . What if sex chromosome variants weren't the …
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Scientists have developed a molecular "clock" that could reshape how paediatricians measure and monitor childhood growth and potentially allow for an earlier diagnosis of life-altering development disorders. The research, published this week in PNAS, (Full Study) describes how the addition of chemical tags to DNA over time can potentially be used to screen for developmental differences …
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Genetic sex determination assays assume that individuals are either XY males or XX females, which can be false at the level of phenotype or genotype. At the phenotypic level, intersex individuals with gonads, sex hormones, or genitalia that do not conform to the definitions of male or female sex characteristics have been documented across a growing number of taxa, including fish, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals
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