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News items on 'Gender Unclear'
Defining sex
(BBC 11/09/2009)
Peter Bowen-Simpkins, spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists explains there are four types of sex. There is your phenotype, which is what you look like, your psychological sex, which is what you feel like and which usually the same as your phenotype and related to how you have been brought up. There is also your gonadal sex which is whether you have ovaries or testicles and your chromosomal sex which is what combination of x or y chromosomes you have.
Semenya tests as 'inter gender'
(BBC 11/09/2009)
The 18-year-old 800m world champion has had medical tests following doubts about whether she is actually female. South Africa's sports minister, the Reverend Makhenkesi Stofile, said: "Caster is a woman, she remains our heroine. We must protect her." BBC Sport understands tests are likely to show Semenya has an intersex status. That means that although she has been brought up as a girl and lives as a woman, she may prove to have both male and female sex characteristics.
Gender-confused teens drug call
(BBC 10/12/2008)
Young teenagers with serious gender identity disorders should be given drugs which will block puberty, international experts suggest. The US Endocrine Society's draft guidelines say the move would give adolescents crucial time to decide which gender they want to live in. New Scientist reports they are based work at a Netherlands clinic where 70 teens were successfully treated.
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