His research interests include the effect of biological factors, medical treatments, gender assignment, and rearing conditions in the development of gender-related behavior, temperament, sexual orientation, and gender identity in various forms of intersexuality.
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Jack Halberstam remarked upon the movie in the book " Female Masculinity ", where he commented that it was " troubling in the way that it resolves the problem of intersexuality or transsexuality by abjecting gender ambiguity ."
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Similarly, Suzanne Kessler, in a 1990 survey of medical specialists in pediatric intersexuality, found out that when a child was born with XY chromosomes but ambiguous genitalia, its sex was often determined according to the size of its penis.
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OII acknowledges intersex as a normal human biological variation, and rejects the terminology of disorder, as in DSD / Disorders of Sex Development, utilized by some other intersex groups, as well as the sexualization of intersex ( as in Intersexuality ).
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He worked with and encouraged his doctoral students to study, among other things, hereditary tumors in animals, fish polygenic sex determination, freshwater and marine fish in Anatolia, animal species systematics, giant chromosome structure, fish intersexuality, DDT effects, and symbiotic nitrogen fixation in bacteria
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Though " hermaphrodite " is burdened by the implications of the anomaly, " intersexuality " is a neologism that tries to " naturalize various sexes, which themselves are naturally occurring . " Because Cal uses " hermaphrodite ", he indicates that the sole normal genders are the classifications of male and female.
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After describing how the doctors inform parents about the intersexuality, she asserts that because the doctors believe that the intersexuals are actually male or female, they tell the parents of the intersexuals that it will take a little bit more time for the doctors to determine whether the infant is a boy or a girl.
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She is a widely respected writer on intersexuality " M to F transsexuality ", & I would consider her postings in fact usable for " some " aspects of the development of the subject, but she is not what one would call a dispassionate expert on the motivations and backgrounds and reputations of others.
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Furthermore, whatever treatment they choose & physicians & decide how to manage intersexuality act out of & deeply held beliefs about male and female sexuality [ and ] gender roles . Sterling argues that the consequence of performing sexual reassignment surgery on intersex infants [ develops ] a language that reinforces the idea that lurking inside the mixed-sex child is a real male or female body . She claims that this is unacceptable because now that society vehemently believes that only males or females should exist, a window to a spectrum of genders closes.
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German-Swiss pathologist Edwin Klebs is sometimes noted for using the word " pseudohermaphroditism " in his taxonomy of intersexuality in 1876, although the word is clearly not his invention as is sometimes reported; the history of the word " pseudohermaphrodite " and the corresponding desire to separate " true " hermaphrodites from " false ", " spurious ", or " pseudo " hermaphrodites, dates back to at least 1709, when Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch used it in a publication describing a subject with testes and a mostly female phenotype . " Pseudohermaphrodite " also appeared in the " Acta Eruditorum " later that same year, in a review of Ruysch's work.
