Definition and meaning of intersex:

intersex - an organism which possesses a mixture of male and female characteristics

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

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• Congenital adrenal hyperplasia - Overview of the multiple types of CAH
• Congenital adrenal hyperplasia - Genetics
• Congenital adrenal hyperplasia - Biochemistry
• Congenital adrenal hyperplasia - History

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An androgyne is a person who feels that they do not fit cleanly into society's boxes labeled men and woman. An androgyne may identify with the gender identity of a combination of male and female or as neither / neutrally gendered. They may also use the terms non-gendered or bigendered. They may experience swings between genders. Androgyny can be either physical and/or psychological, it does not depend on birth sex per se. An androgyne may have been born with ambiguous sex organs (intersex), or for other ...

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An intersexual or intersex person (or animal of any unisexual species) is one who is born with genitalia and/or secondary sexual characteristics determined as neither exclusively male nor female, or which combine features of the male and female sexes. (The terms hermaphrodite and pseudohermaphrodite, which have been used in the past, are now considered pejorative and inaccurate and are no longer used to refer to an intersexual person.) Sometimes the phrase "ambiguous genitalia" is used. Intersexualit ...

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• Intersexuality - Overview
• Intersexuality - Biological causes of intersexuality
• Intersexuality - Chimerism
• Intersexuality - Treatment of intersexuals by society

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1. Androphilia refers to attraction (especially sexual attraction) to men, whether it be held by men or women. It is also increasingly used when referring to the sexual orientation of transgender and intersex people, since using homo- or heterosexual is not without problems there. (Compare Homosexuality and transgender) 2. In the context of male homosexuality, androphilia is the mutual attraction of adult men. It is to be distinguished from ephebophilia, or the attraction of an adult man to an adolescent male. Whi ...

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Two-Spirit is a term for third gender people (for example, woman-living-man) that are among many, if not most, Native American and Canadian First Nations tribes. It usually implies a masculine spirit and a feminine spirit living in the same body. It is also used by some contemporary gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and intersex Native Americans to describe themselves. There are also native terms for these indi ...

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• Two-Spirit - Terms
• Two-Spirit - Two-Spirit like identities outside of North America
• Two-Spirit - Sources/Recommended reading

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Xanith, also written as "khanith" is a vernacular Arabic term for both "mukhannath" and "khuntha". "Mukhannath" refers to individuals with a gender identity that is discordant with their visible sexual organs. They are characterized as "effeminate", "not clearly male," and as people who were "born as a male" and who nevertheless feel, behave, and (in most cases) dress like a female. "Khuntha" refers to intersexed human beings. John Money summarizes material presented by U. Wiktan in an article entitled "Man becomes woman: Trans ...

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• Xanith - See Also

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The goals of surgery, outlined at the beginning of this article have not changed, but some types of surgery have been discontinued. The primary ongoing controversy surrounds timing of feminizing surgery for virilized girls with CAH. Alhough surgical sex reassignments (to female) of XY males with unambiguous micropenis or penile injury had been dwindling in the 1990s, few if any have been done since. Accounts of spontaneous self-reassignment since then have also reduced the reassignment to female of several other forms of XY ambiguity ...

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History of intersex surgery, History of intersex surgery - Surgical pioneering and the discovery that gender is constructed, History of intersex surgery - Triumph of infant surgery and nurture over nature, History of intersex surgery - Complications arise both in the theories and in the patients, History of intersex surgery - Nature back on top: surgeons go from hero to villain in 3 years, History of intersex surgery - Outcomes and statistics, History of intersex surgery - Controversy

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Androgyny refers to two concepts. The first is the mixing of masculine and feminine characteristics, be it the example of the loud fashion statements of musicians like Ziggy Stardust or the balance of "anima" and "animus" in Jungian psychoanalytic theory. The second is in describing something that is neither masculine nor feminine, for example the Hijras of India who are often described as "neither man nor woman". Androgynous traits are those that either have no gender value, or have some aspects generally attributed to the opp ...

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Sex, in the scope of this article and category, refers to the male and female duality of biology and reproduction. The somewhat similar term gender has more to do with identity than biology. The concept is confined to organisms that reproduce sexually. The female sex is defined as the one which produces the larger gamete (i.e., reproductive cell) and which typically bears the offspring. The category of sex reflects the biological reproductive function, rather than sexaulity or other behaviors. In some lower animals, sex may be assigned to specific structures rather than the entire organism as some species, such a ...

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• Sex - Sex in non-animal species
• Sex - Sex among humans
• Sex - Discordance
• Sex - Biological varieties of discordance
• Sex - Psychological behavioral and cultural varieties of discordance
• Sex - Social and legal considerations

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Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) is a dimeric glycoprotein that inhibits the development of the Müllerian ducts in a male embryo. It is named after Johannes Peter Müller. It has also been called Müllerian inhibiting factor (MIF), Mullerian inhibiting hormone (MIH), and Mullerian inhibiting substance (MIS). Anti-müllerian hormone - Structure. AMH is a protein hormone structurally related to inhibin and activin, and a member of the transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) family. It is present in reptiles, bir ...

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• Anti-müllerian hormone - Structure
• Anti-müllerian hormone - Gene
• Anti-müllerian hormone - Embryogensis
• Anti-müllerian hormone - Other Functions
• Anti-müllerian hormone - Pathology
• Anti-müllerian hormone - Research

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In biology and medicine, virilization refers to the development of changes which make a male body different from a female body. Most of the changes of virilization are produced by androgens. Virilization is most commonly used in three medical contexts: prenatal sexual differentiation, the postnatal changes of normal male puberty, and excessive androgen effects in girls or women. Virilization - Prenatal virilization. In the prenatal period, virilization refers to closure of the perineum, thinning and rugatio ...

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• Virilization - Prenatal virilization
• Virilization - Normal virilization
• Virilization - Abnormal childhood virilization
• Virilization - Abnormal virilization in adolescent or adult women

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Management practices for several types of intersex conditions and other abnormalities and injuries of the genitalia have evolved over the last 50 years. In the last decade several of the surgical practices have become the subject of public and professional controversy. See History of intersex surgery for more detail. Is functional outcome better when surgery is performed in infancy, in adolescence, or adulthood, for vaginoplasty for markedly virilized females (e.g., from congenital adrenal hyperplasia, mixed gonadal dysgenesis, or par ...

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Intersex surgery, Intersex surgery - Purposes of genital reconstructive surgery, Intersex surgery - Types of surgery, Intersex surgery - Masculinizing surgical procedures, Intersex surgery - Feminizing surgical procedures, Intersex surgery - Controversies and unsettled questions

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The XY sex-determination system is a well-known sex-determination system. It is found in human beings and other mammals. In the XY sex-determination system, females have two of the same kind of sex chromosome (XX), while males have two distinct sex chromosomes (XY). Some species (including humans) have a gene SRY on the Y chromosome that determines maleness; others (such as the fruit f ...

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A sex organ, or primary sexual characteristic, narrowly defined, is any of those parts of the body (which are not always bodily organs according to the strict definition) which are involved in sexual reproduction and constitute the reproductive system in a complex organism; namely: Male: penis (notably the glans penis and foreskin), prepuce, testicles, scrotum, prostate, seminal vesicles, epididymis, Cowper's glands Female: vulva (notably the clitoris and labia), vagina, cervix, uterus, Fallopian tubes, ova ...

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• Sex organ - Anatomical terms related to sex

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Androgen is the generic term for any natural or synthetic compound, usually a steroid hormone, that stimulates or controls the development and maintenance of masculine characteristics in vertebrates by binding to androgen receptors. This includes the activity of the accessory male sex organs and development of male secondary sex characteristics. Androgens, which were first discovered in 1936, are also called androgenic hormones or testoids. Androgens are also the original anabolic steroids. They are also the precursor of ...

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• Androgen - Types of androgens
• Androgen - Androgen functions
• Androgen - Development of the male
• Androgen - Spermatogenesis
• Androgen - Inhibition of fat deposition
• Androgen - Muscle mass
• Androgen - Brain
• Androgen - Insensitivity to androgen in humans

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A man is a male human adult, in contrast to an adult female, which is a woman. The term man (irregular plural: men) is a term used to indicate either a person generally, or a male person specifically. Man - Etymology. The term "man" (from Proto-Germanic mannaz "man, person") and words derived from it can designate any or even all of the human race regardless of their gender or age. This is indeed the oldest usage of "man". The word developed into Old English man, mann "human bein ...

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• Man - Etymology
• Man - Age
• Man - Biology and sex
• Man - Gender roles

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In the last 50 years, the following procedures were most commonly performed for the following intersex conditions and birth defects in order to make the genitalia more like those of normal females: virilization due to congenital adrenal hyperplasia malformations of genitalia in genetic females urogenital sinus malformation cloacal exstrophy conditions involving severe undervirilization or malformations of genetic males, or infants with mixed genetic sex, to be assigned and raised a ...

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Intersex surgery, Intersex surgery - Purposes of genital reconstructive surgery, Intersex surgery - Types of surgery, Intersex surgery - Masculinizing surgical procedures, Intersex surgery - Feminizing surgical procedures, Intersex surgery - Controversies and unsettled questions

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Orchiopexy and hypospadias repair are the most common types of genital corrective surgery performed in infant boys, but most of these boys have no other abnormalities and are not considered to have an intersex condition. Undervirilized boys typically have at least one of these two procedures performed in addition to others described below. Types of undervirization and malformation for which some type of masculinizing surgery has been performed most often in the last 50 years are: the configuration of ambiguous genitalia r ...

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Intersex surgery, Intersex surgery - Purposes of genital reconstructive surgery, Intersex surgery - Types of surgery, Intersex surgery - Masculinizing surgical procedures, Intersex surgery - Feminizing surgical procedures, Intersex surgery - Controversies and unsettled questions

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Regardless of the "representativeness" of the advocacy groups, the doctors began to listen. Within a short time re-evaluation of intersex management was a major topic in the journals and the meetings of the pediatric endocrinologists and urologists. There was no international "registry" of genital reconstructive surgery. Most cases of this type of surgery were being carried out in a relatively small number of centers. Several of the larger institutions embarked on individual and collaborative retrospective outcome studies, attempting to cont ...

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History of intersex surgery, History of intersex surgery - Surgical pioneering and the discovery that gender is constructed, History of intersex surgery - Triumph of infant surgery and nurture over nature, History of intersex surgery - Complications arise both in the theories and in the patients, History of intersex surgery - Nature back on top: surgeons go from hero to villain in 3 years, History of intersex surgery - Outcomes and statistics, History of intersex surgery - Controversy

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