Word: intersex
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...Gender disputes in athletics can be very complicated, however. In his paper "Intersex and the Olympic Games," Rob Ritchie, a urological surgeon at Oxford University, notes that in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta - the last Games in which all female athletes were subjected to gender testing - eight female athletes were found to be genetically male. Seven of them had androgen-insensitivity syndrome (AIS), a condition in which a genetic male is resistant to androgens, the male sex hormones that include testosterone. In such cases, the testes never descend from the abdomen and the genitalia may resemble female genitalia...
...Ritchie, a urological surgeon at Oxford University and the author of "Intersex and the Olympic Games," a recent article in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, says that determining someone's sex is not so simple, and that external genitalia can be misleading. A post-mortem on Stephens' body in 1980 revealed that she had "ambiguous genitalia." The post-mortem didn't go into specifics, but those genitalia could have been a small penis that was mistaken for an enlarged clitoris, or a small scrotum that resembled labia. (Read "Feeling Betrayed by Marion Jones...
...adds, is ambiguous because the number of cells carrying a male-determining chromosome was not high enough to masculinize the twin. "They're both ambiguous, if you will, but only one is from a genital perspective." Vilain adds that people should retire the term hermaphrodite should use "intersex" instead...
...Just when you thought it was safe... In 1972, the Clean Water Act, which called for "swimmable, fishable waters," prompted a Potomac purging. But last fall, the appearance of intersex fish - which have male and female organs - renewed concerns about swimming, fishing and drinking the water...
...identity, gender expression and sexual orientation. First comes the “full monty,” so to speak— physical genitalia. One’s “biological sex” is determined by the existance of male, female, or ambiguous (in the case of intersex individuals) genitalia. But the equipment granted at birth does not determine one’s personality. “Transgender” is a term reserved for those who identify strongly with the lives, feelings, and (socially perceived) behaviors typical of an individual with a different biological sex. This falls...