Monday, October 22, 2012

Intersexes

Intersexes are individuals who born with both female and male genital parts. It seems to be a mixture of a woman and a man. Intersex is define as, in humans and other animals, is the presence of intermediate or atypical combinations of physical features that usually distinguish female from male. This is usually understood to be congenial, involving chromosomal, morphologic, genital and/or gonadal anomalies, such as diversion from typical XX-female or XY-male presentations, genital ambiguity, or sex developmental differences. This means that a boy can look like it from the outside but not from the inside and vise versa with girls as well. It also be the case of a person with both genitals parts, or someone with deform genital part that could look like the opposite genital part. There are a lot of different ways someone could be considered an intersexes, for example Hermaphrodites, which are individuals who born as a mixture of both a female and a male. In the United States there is an approximation of 1 of every 100 children have some sort of genital mal function, which could be lead to be considered an intersex person. The most weird part is that a lot of these people regardless of the fact that they born with this condition, intersex anatomy it’s discover until they reach puberty or later in their lives, in some cases even after death. Sometimes even intersexes do not realized they have this problem and die with out knowing it.

1 comment:

  1. Wow, I did find it strange that some people do not realize they have this condition. It must also be common for parents to be unaware of it then. If this occurs, the problem then becomes that the parents raises a child as female or male and as the child ages he/she switches genders. It is important that everyone in this situation is educated in the intersex condition properly so that we "empower the intersexual to understand his/her own status and to choose (or reject) any medical intervention."

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