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How common is intersex? To answer this question in an uncontroversial way, you’d have to first get everyone to agree Intersex conditions on what counts as intersex —and also to agree on what should count as strictly male or What does ISNA strictly . That’s hard to do. How small recommend for does a have to be before it counts as Learn More children with intersex? Do you count “ ” intersex? anomalies as intersex if there’s no apparent ·DSD Guidelines 1 ·Tips for Parents Does ISNA think external sexual ambiguity? ( ·Teaching Kit children with explores this question in greater depth in her ·DSD Symposium 2006 intersex should be book and the Medical ·FAQ raised without a Invention of Sex.) , or in a third · gender? Here’s what we do know: If you ask experts at medical centers how often a child is born so What's wrong with noticeably atypical in terms of genitalia that a the way intersex has specialist in sex differentiation is called in, the traditionally been number comes out to about 1 in 1500 to 1 in treated? 2000 births. But a lot more people than that are born with subtler forms of sex anatomy What do doctors do variations, some of which won’t show up until now when they later in life. encounter a patient with intersex? Below we provide a summary of statistics drawn from an article by Brown University Questions about 2 Intersex Society of researcher Anne Fausto-Sterling. The basis North America for that article was an extensive review of the medical literature from 1955 to 1998 aimed at How come many producing numeric estimates for the frequency people have never of sex variations. Note that the frequency of heard of intersex? some of these conditions, such as congenital adrenal hyperplasia, differs for different Is a person who is populations. These statistics are intersex a approximations. ?

Does having a Y one in chromosome make Not XX and not XY 1,666 someone a ? births one in Is intersex the same Klinefelter (XXY) 1,000 as "ambiguous births genitalia"? one in insensitivity syndrome 13,000 Show me how intersex anatomy births one in develops Partial androgen insensitivity 130,000 syndrome What is the current births policy of the one in Classical congenital adrenal American Academy of 13,000 hyperplasia on births http://www.isna.org/faq/frequency[7/31/2018 10:11:50 AM] How common is intersex? | Intersex Society of North America Visited on 07/31/2018

surgery? one in 66 Late onset adrenal hyperplasia What's the difference individuals between being one in or Vaginal agenesis 6,000 and births having an intersex one in condition? Ovotestes 83,000 births Why Doesn't ISNA one in Want to Eradicate Idiopathic (no discernable medical 110,000 Gender? cause) births How can you assign a Iatrogenic (caused by medical no gender (boy or ) treatment, for instance progestin estimate without surgery? administered to pregnant mother) no What evidence is 5 alpha reductase deficiency there that you can estimate no grow up Mixed gonadal dysgenesis psychologically estimate healthy with intersex one in genitals (without Complete gonadal dysgenesis 150,000 "normalizing" births surgeries)? one in (urethral opening in 2,000 Does ISNA advocate perineum or along penile shaft) doing nothing when a births Hypospadias (urethral opening child is born with one in 770 intersex? between corona and tip of glans births penis) What's ISNA's Total number of people whose position on surgery? one in 100 bodies differ from standard male or births Are there medical female one or risks associated with Total number of people receiving intersex conditions? two in surgery to “normalize” genital 1,000 appearance How can I get my old births medical records? 1 Dreger, Alice Domurat. 1998. Ambiguous What do intersex and the same-sex Sex—or Ambivalent Medicine? Ethical debate Issues in the Treatment of Intersexuality. have to do with each Hastings Center Report, 28, 3: 24-35. other? 2 Blackless, Melanie, Anthony Charuvastra, Who was David Amanda Derryck, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Karl Reimer (also, sadly, Lauzanne, and Ellen Lee. 2000. How sexually known as dimorphic are we? Review and synthesis. "John/Joan")? American Journal of Human Biology 12:151- 166. What's the history behind the intersex We were recently asked to update these movement? frequency figures, and a lively discussion arose between two staff members.

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