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XY Girls – What is their gender identity?

Started by Natasha, September 06, 2009, 08:49:42 AM

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Natasha

XY Girls – What is their gender identity?

http://lgbtlatestscience.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/xy-girls-what-is-their-gender-identity/
9/5/09

Lately I've been publishing research on individuals who are XY but appear female or vice versa. This is called sex reversal. Depending on the cause, individuals may appear to be the opposite gender or somewhere in between. There are lots of terms used for people with ambiguous genitalia including hermaphrodites and intersex. The terms seem to change with the times and the understanding of the biological mechanisms.

This abstract is a little bit older. However, it contains something that most of these papers do not. What is the gender identity of these individuals? If a person has XY chromosomes, but female genitals, will they identify as female or male?

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Dani

Depends on the individual.

Some XY individuals are completely androgen insensitive. They appear completely female on the outsdie, but have no ovaries. They cannot have children, but most identify as female without any surgery.

Others display a mixed presentation, not completely male or female. The debate is nature or nurture. In the past, the prevaling feeling was nurture was more important, and many of these intersexed children were surgically altered to appear female with some success and some not so successful results.

Today many people are asking "Why not wait until the child develops a sexual orientation, then make the body match the mind?" As long as there are no immediate urinary issues, I think this is a valid question.

We cannot predict who will become gay or transexual even with physical genitallia that matches chromosomal sex, let alone any of the less common conditions.

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