Gender Paradoxes. Sharon Doyle Driedger.
by Driedger, Sharon Doyle; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 73Human Relations. Publisher: Maclean's, 2003ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Gender identity | Generative organs -- Surgery | Hermaphroditism | Sex (Biology) | Sex determination -- Diagnostic | Sex differentiation disordersDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Intersex is more prevalent than people realize, occurring in roughly one of every 2,000 newborns. That makes it nearly as common as cystic fibrosis. But it has been wrapped in so much secrecy that many don't even know it exists." (MACLEAN'S) This article discusses how people born with intersex conditions, "a range of conditions in which an individual has a mix of male and female biological features," are working to educate people to shed the stigma and shame that has surrounded them in the past.Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Gender Paradoxes, May 26, 2003; pp. 33-35.
"Intersex is more prevalent than people realize, occurring in roughly one of every 2,000 newborns. That makes it nearly as common as cystic fibrosis. But it has been wrapped in so much secrecy that many don't even know it exists." (MACLEAN'S) This article discusses how people born with intersex conditions, "a range of conditions in which an individual has a mix of male and female biological features," are working to educate people to shed the stigma and shame that has surrounded them in the past.
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