WOMS202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Sex Organ, Prenatal Hormones And Sexual Orientation, Gdal

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Intersex: what are the two arguments that dreger and herndon make in their article, "progress and. Intersex means neither boy or girl, and it refers to differences in sexual anatomy that are present from birth. It is context specific because not every case is the same, different things can determine one being intersex; some examples include: the size of the penis or clitoris, the sex chromosomes that aren"t xx or xy. The optimum gender of rearing model was based on the assumption that children are born pscyhosexually neutral at birth. Treated children in a sexist, asymmetrical way. Values aggressiveness and sexual potency for boys. Values passiveness and reproductive/ sexual-receptive potential for girls. Violated principles of informed consent by failing to tell decision-making parents about poor evidential support for the approach. Forced children to have their bodies adapted to social norms, having to go through surgeries and hormone treatments that results in irrevocable harm.

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