BACKGROUND There are few reports describing chromosomal abnormalities in transsexuals. In rare cases, transsexualism and sexual chromosomal multiplicity coexist. Six cases of male-to-female transsexuals with 47,XYY chromosomal pattern have been previously reported. We have not encountered any female transsexual cases with 47,XXX karyotype in the literature. METHODS A 21-year-old female patien...

In this article, I reflect on two interviews of transgender/gender nonconforming asylum claimants in the broader West. Trans*it documentary that my partners and created, a non-binary person transgender woman, Ilios Christina, interview each other difficulties being applicant Greece. Greece is an understudied area with huge migration flows at border EU has no official data for Sexual Orientation...

Sex determination is as important for the fitness of plants as it is for animals, but its mechanisms appear to vary much more among plants than among animals, and the expression of gender in plants differs in important respects from that in most animals. In this Minireview, I provide an overview of the broad variety of ways in which plants determine sex. I suggest that several important peculia...

Previous research has demonstrated that for students with intellectual disabilities, improved self-determination skills are positively correlated with productivity and organization during school and quality of life outcomes in adulthood. Despite extensive investigation in these areas, the predictive relationship between self-determination and academic achievement for students with intellectual ...

BACKGROUND Prenatal ultrasonography has remained a universal tool but little is known especially from developing countries on clients' reasons for desiring it. Then aim was to determine the reasons why pregnant women will desire a prenatal ultrasound. METHODS It was a cross-sectional survey of consecutive 222 women at 2 different ultrasonography facilities in Ibadan, South-west Nigeria. RES...

In many farm animal species, the preference of a specific sex is obvious mainly due to commercial implications; so for comprehensive and efficient results in the livestock management plans specially breedingand selection programs, it is necessary to include acost-effective and reliable strategy for early determination of fetal sex. Several invasive and non-invasive approaches have been establis...

This article outlines the progression of topics used to highlight gender in a clinical medical anthropology class. As the class moves through themes such as the use of high-technology medicine and doctor-patient communication, issues of the socially constructed nature of gender are brought to the fore. Included in this article are students' reflections on how they try to make sense of diverse n...

Understanding the gender similarities and differences in how organisms respond following exposure to environmental chemicals is important if we are to determine the relative risk of these agents to wildlife and human populations. In this paper, we have chosen to focus on the sex determination and differentiation of fishes, amphibians, and reptiles, because of their close association with the en...