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Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 09:09:57 JST Patricia Aas
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Humans bodies are amazing, we don’t even know how many people are intersex because we don’t chromosome test infants and it might not be possible to find out otherwise.
“A 46,XY mother who developed as a normal woman underwent spontaneous puberty, reached menarche, menstruated regularly, experienced two unassisted pregnancies, and gave birth to a 46,XY daughter with complete gonadal dysgenesis.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2190741/
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  Report of Fertility in a Woman with a Predominantly 46,XY Karyotype in a Family with Multiple Disorders of Sexual Development
  
  Context: We report herein a remarkable family in which the mother of a woman with 46,XY complete gonadal dysgenesis was found to have a 46,XY karyotype in peripheral lymphocytes, mosaicism in cultured skin fibroblasts (80% 46,XY and 20% 45,X) and a predominantly ...
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  Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 09:09:58 JST Patricia Aas
  
  We need better education when 95% of the adult population doesn’t know what intersex is.
  
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  Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 09:09:58 JST Patricia Aas
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  Basically everything you were ever taught about human “biological” genders is ridiculously simplified. The human condition is a multifaceted thing and people need to grow up and realize we’re not kids anymore and do some reading. There are dozens of intersex variations. And it’s much more common than most people realize. Here is a specific genetic variation in the Dominican Republic: “Güevedoce”
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCevedoce
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    In the Dominican Republic, güevedoces (from Spanish: güevedoce, from Dominican Spanish güevos a los doce "testicles at twelve") are children with a specific intersex variation. Güevedoces are classified as girls when they are born but, around the age of 12, they start developing male genitalia. This is due to a deficiency in the production of 5α-reductase, an enzyme involved in the metabolism of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone. The same phenomenon occurs in Papua New Guinea, where it is called kwolu-aatmwol (literally 'a female thing changing into a male thing') by the Sambia people, and in Turkey. Early research The first scientific investigations of güevedoces occurred in the 1970s, when Julianne Imperato-McGinley, an endocrinologist from Cornell University, traveled to the village of Las Salinas in the Dominican Republic to investigate reports of apparently female children becoming male children at the onset of puberty. The cause was determined to be 5α-Reductase deficiency, and the results were published in the journal Science in 1974. The...
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  Jaddy (jaddy@friend.enby-box.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 04:35:30 JST Jaddy
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  @Patricia Yeah! I’ve shared this article sooo often, when people said „there’re only two sexes“, „you can only be man or woman“, etc.pp.
  Also the explanations and examples given by Claire Ainsworth in „Sex redefined“, nature.com/articles/518288a
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    The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.

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