Word: intersexed
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Beyond its dubious value as any kind of test of intersex athletic prowess, the entire spectacle is a fascinating display of one man's ability to exploit the times. Whether Bobby Riggs is one of history's greatest hustlers conning the world or just a fortunate zany defies a quick answer. He is probably a bit of both. For a guy who would not know Gloria Steinem if she tap-danced across his chest in spike heels, he has gone a long way with sexism. But a true hustler does not depend on luck, and Riggs was awfully...
...Barely There Face. In our own culture, Winick sees intersex everywhere. Clothes and hair are the least of it. Sales of jewelry and fragrances for men have risen massively in the past three years. Since World War II, there has been a 66% increase in the number of women tennis players, a 1,000% rise in women golfers. Every third gun-owner is a woman, and so is every fifth skydiver...
...such a cat has to be a female because its black and orange patches must result from two different X chromosomes. What seemed to be male calico cats have turned out, on study of their cells, to have two X chromosomes as well as a Y. They are an intersex form, and they are sterile...
...soon be tinkering with his chromosomes and the genes they contain. Mongolism has recently been shown to be associated with a supernumerary chromosome: victims have 47 instead of the normal 46. Some cases of intersex abnormalities have one or even two extra female (X) chromosomes. Within the chromosomes, a defective gene may fail in its function because a single fraction of its nucleic acid molecule is aberrant and inutile. The time may come, suggested the Rockefeller Institute's Geneticist Edward L. Tatum, when medical men will be able to replace a defective gene with a specially tailored nucleic acid...
...This intersex abnormality is no reason for abandoning hormone treatment, the doctors agree. But two things are important: 1) if possible, the hormones should not be given early in pregnancy, or, if indicated, given only in moderate doses; and 2) the baby's real sex must be promptly established to avoid the danger that a girl will be raised as a boy, resulting in severe emotional damage when the facts are recognized...