Posted on 05/19/2003 9:21:32 PM PDT by steplock
Amen.
Moral judgement is the nectar (and weakness) of the far right.
BUMP
If she/he/it wants to be in a college dorm like this I don't think there is much "turning" left to do.
When they open a coed nymphomaniac dorm, I'm in....
As Liddy astutely points out, the correct term is SEX not GENDER.Bump.
Jamie Lee Curtis ... is chromosomally a male. She is totally infertile.If Jamie Lee Curtis were truly chromosomally a male (XY), she would be presumptively fertile. As I understand it, she is neither chromosomally male nor chromosomally female -- i.e., neither XX nor XY -- but some other combination.
Urban legend.
I've heard that rumour before. Got any proof whether it's true or false?
Nope. The reference was meant as a joke, not a statement of fact -- or something that I believe in.
Snopes lists it as "undetermined." Curtis has never confirmed or denied it, not that denial would end the rumors.
The Snopes article notes that the incidence of children born with "mixed genitalia" is somewhere between 1 in 2,000 and 1 and 3,000. Given that Wesleyan has just under 3,000 students, you'd expect one student born with "mixed genitalia." I don't what the percentages are with regard to surgery to assign a single set of genitalia, before college.
Excerpt:
Background: Intersex conditions are among the most fascinating conditions encountered by the clinician. The ability to diagnose infants born with intersex conditions has advanced rapidly in recent years. In most cases today, clinicians can promptly make an accurate diagnosis and counsel parents on therapeutic options. However, the paradigm of early gender assignment has been challenged by the results of clinical and basic science research, which show that gender identity development likely begins in utero. While the techniques of surgical genital reconstruction have been mastered, the understanding of the psychological and social implications of gender assignment is poor. This article focuses on newborn evaluation and the differential diagnosis in children with intersex conditions, including children with ambiguous genitalia.
Traditional intersex classifications
For convenience, intersex conditions traditionally have been divided into the following 5 simplified classifications based on the differentiation of the gonad:
Female pseudohermaphrodite - Two ovaries
Male pseudohermaphrodite - Two testes
True hermaphrodite - Ovary and/or testis and/or ovotestis
Mixed gonadal dysgenesis - Testis plus streak gonad
Pure gonadal dysgenesis - Bilateral streak gonads (A streak gonad is dysgenetic and resembles ovarian stromal tissue. No germ cells are present.)
The internal ducts and external genitalia may vary in development, since the presence of apparently male or female gonads does not necessarily correlate with the patient's gender identity.
Pathophysiology: Adequate comprehension of normal and abnormal sexual differentiation is essential to understanding intersex disorders. A summary of current knowledge regarding the embryology and classification of intersex states provides an appropriate introduction to the topic.
LOL! This is getting series!
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