ANTHR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Hermaphrodite, The Third Sex, Intersex
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The margins of our genetic makeup is what makes us different. Boy and girl babies are exactly the same but only until the 6th week. A malfunction in the early stage of organ development is where it may happen. Abnormality: malformed penis, could be corrected with surgery. However, joshua was xo he had an entire chromosome missing. Gonads were making an adequate amount of testosterone. Born normal; a few months old, her mother found lumps in her abdomen. These were testis internally, she was a boy ais (androgen insensitivity syndrome). No one told her what was really happening because no one was telling her that she was biologically male. Case 3: south west quarter of the caribbean a lone island. Village in caribbean where almost every family was affected by intersexuality. Some of the girls were changing into boys, as they approached puberty, they were becoming masculine. 4 out of 7 children were affected (the batista family)