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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:19 am
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 11:04 am
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:06 pm
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 3:44 pm
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:22 am
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That helps. So, looking through the medical literature, I find that intersexuality refers to people born with ovarian and testicular tissue. They often have ambiguous external bits and chromosomal abnormalities, too but that isn't the issue here. The issue is this: are they true hermaphrodites or do they have mixed gonadal dysgenesis? True hermaphrodites have ovaries AND testicles. There are 11 documented cases of fertility in people with TH. Meaning, they gave birth.
People with MGD on the other hand, have ovarian streaks of tissue on one or both testicles. ● Patients with pure gonadal dysgenesis are raised as female since there is no sexual ambiguity at birth; however, gender assignment in patients with mixed gonadal dysgenesis is variable and depends on the degree of virilization ● Approximately 20% of patients with gonadal dysgenesis develop a gonadal neoplasm within the first two decades of life, usually gonadoblastoma; almost all cases of gonadoblastoma have been reported in patients with pure or mixed gonadal dysgenesis or male pseudohermaphroditism ● Other neoplasms include seminomatous germ cell tumors such as seminoma and dysgerminoma, nonseminomatous germ cell tumors such as embryonal carcinoma and choriocarcinoma, as well as non-germ cell tumors such as Wilms tumor Since the risk of malignant tumor is so high AND one of the clinical features of MGD is sexual infantilism with or without gonads...meaning they aren't gonna go through puberty anyhow, doctors do recommend removal. So, spinning this as, "it's horrible that the parents are selecting the gender-nads of their poor babies" is just poop.
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:39 am
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:18 pm
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