WGST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Endocrinology, Sex Assignment, Sexual Differentiation
24 Feb 2017
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In the five sexes fausto-sterling argues that the central mission of the medical community serving intersex persons be to preserve life over gender conformity. System of assigning names and the names used in the arts and sciences. The physiological division based upon indicators that include external genitalia, chromosomes, glands and reproductive structures. One who believes that different behaviors of men and women are rooted in innate, natural or biological differences between the sexes. Major sports governing bodies target women whose bodies produce more testosterone. According to kessler in the medical construction of gender , when an infant has ambiguous genitalia, the decision regarding sex assignment is manly base on the chances of having an appropriately sized penis. A sex category encompassing a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn"t seem to fit the limitations of female or male.
