SOCI 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cortisol, Hypospadias
12 Jun 2016
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Documentary - me, my sex, and i: bbc documentary. There are about 2 dozen different conditions that blur the line between male and female o. Known as dsd"s - disorder of sexual development. Many of the conditions are relatively rare o. Some, especially the milder differences, are surprisingly common: as many as 100,000 people will have a dsd of some sort in cities such as new york and. London: altogether, dsds occur as frequently as twins and red hair. Some dsd"s will also affect your general health. Type of dsd called congenital adrenal hyperplasia (cah: means adrenal glands don"t work properly. Doesn"t make enough cortisol but makes too much testosterone --> this leads to ambiguous genitals (sometimes) Male and female genitals grow from the same tissue o. It is just the testosterone that makes them look different. There is a continuum from male to female. Doctors have no choice but to assign male or female.
