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About Sexuality: Near the Edge of Sexual Ambiguity

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From Cory Silverberg, your Guide to Sexuality
One doesn't often find poetry in a science press release, but there it was, in my inbox last week. A study examining the SRY genes (thought of as the "master switch" for turning on male sex development in humans) that was about as dense as you can imagine, explained beautifully and even poetically, by a couple of publicists at Case Western Reserve University. It helps that the study is something of a groundbreaker. ~ Cory

Near the Edge of Sexual Ambiguity
A new study offers further documentation of how precarious the categories of male and female - on which we base so much of our society - really are.
Search Related Topics:  chromosomal sex  sex research  sexual ambiguity

Making Sex X: Germany Creates New Birth Certificate Option
Beginning November 1st, some parents in Germany will have the option of leaving the sex of their newborn undetermined on their birth certificates. It's a response that got a fair bit of media attention. Most of it confused.
Search Related Topics:  sex  gender  intersex

What Is Intersex?
Germany's new legislation is not introducing a "third gender" as most of the media reported it. Instead it's a specific response to the stalemate between what science tells us about sex and what society would like us to continue to believe about it. The people who get stuck in the middle of these clashing forces are often identified as intersex.
Search Related Topics:  sex definitions  sexual identity  sex research

What's the Difference Between Sex and Gender?
Some people say that sex is what's between your legs and gender is what's between your ears. This is an okay start, only it takes our focus away from the important thing in between both of those, our bodies.
Search Related Topics:  sex definitions  gender  transgender

 



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