Background: Knowledge, clinical guidelines, and medicolegal frameworks regarding intersex individuals are inexistent in the Arab world. Some medical professionals view intersexuality as a disorder of sexual development that often needs sex-reassignment surgery to correct while others natural variation along sex spectrum. No study date addresses vast gap literature. Methods: We contacted eleven ...

N THIS paper a detailed account of our study of intersexuality in DroI sophila virilis will be given. The progress of this work has been reported elsewhere (LEBEDEFF 1934a and b, 1938a and b). These intersexes are the result of mutative changes within the normal diploid system, and they differ from intersexes in other species genetically, morphologically and embryologically. Intersexes in Lyman...

IN 1922, while investigating the fauna of the New Hebrides under the Percy Sladen Trust, I found that many of the domestic pigs (Suspapuensis Less, and Garn.) kept by the natives were intersexual. These monstrosities had previously been noticed by anthropologists (Codrington, 1891). I dissected one of them and found that it differed from the great majority of the intersex pigs and goats occasio...

[T]he brains of both homosexual and heterosexual maleto-female transsexuals probably differ from the brains of typical heterosexual men, but in different ways. In homosexual male-to-female transsexuals, the difference does involve sex-dimorphic structures, and the nature of the difference is a shift in the female-typical direction. If there is any neuroanatomic intersexuality, it is in the homo...

Intersexual infants and infants with other genital abnormalities often receive genital surgery for sex assignment or for normalizing purposes.1 The wisdom and beneficence of these practices have been questioned by intersexual individuals, support groups, some doctors, and the media.2 Because the practices have been developed without long-term studies to evaluate them, pediatric urologists and p...

Katrina Karkazis is a medical anthropologist at the Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University. Her first book, Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience (Duke University Press, 2008), looks at the question of how to treat infants whose bodies do not fit neatly into our scientific categories of “male” or “female,” from the perspective of doctors, parents, and adults w...

Sexual ambiguity commonly known as intersexuality, is a condition of imperfect sexual differentiation between male and female. The present study was aimed at analyzing the chromosomal abnormalities of intersex subjects in Coimbatore city, India Of the 30 intersex cases studied, 10 of them were genetically male (46,XY) but phenotypically females, 8 of them were genetically female (46,XX) with ma...