Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When doctors tackle a patient with mixed-up sex, e.g., pseudohermaphroditism (TIME, Dec. 15), they are often faced with a cruel dilemma. The child is likely to be a boy whose masculinity was not evident at birth, so he has been reared as a girl. It is one thing, and fairly simple, to operate and make him what nature originally intended, but the social readjustment from girlhood to boyhood is forbiddingly difficult. The less common cases of girls mistaken for boys are just as tough...
...Canadian believes that he has solved the diagnostic problem in human intersex. All human cells, says Dr. Murray L. Barr of the University of Western Ontario, contain something called sex chromatin. It is easy to spot in females' cells, because there it is made from two husky X chromosomes. It is not seen in male cells, because they draw on only one X chromosome and a measly little Y chromosome...
...tiny specimen of outer skin, taken painlessly, is enough to show the true chromosomal sex of any individual. Dr. Barr told Toronto's Academy of Medicine. If doctors suspect a sex mixup in a baby, this test should be made at once, he urged, so that operations to straighten things out can be performed early. Even more important, the child can be reared from the start as a member of its rightful sex...
...attempts to control or stifle free scientific research, "not merely because . . . the promising unity of world science has been disrupted, but because a political party has imposed its own dogmatic view of what must be correct . . . " In the next paragraph he denounces "official Catholic pronouncements on birth control and sex relations," not only because they mean frustration and misery and ill-health and ignorance ... for thousands of millions of souls ... They are also wrong because they are asserted absolutely and dogmatically, instead of being conclusions arrived at by free inquiry...
...began leaking out, papers all over the U.S. played the story of the trial big. TYCOON ON PAT'S V LIST bannered the Boston Record. The Atlanta Constitution headlined its story: SOBBING CALL GIRL WEEPS OVER NAMES OF LOVE BUYERS. Punned the New York Mirror: SILENT SINERAMA IN SEX DIMENSIONS. Actually, the list of names she mentioned in court was a scattershot blast, as newsmen got it. They were unable to tell which were "clients" and which were mere "acquaintances" of Pat's. Such names as Screen Stars Mickey Rooney and George Raft, Disk Jockey Jack Eigen...