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View Post: Engendering confusion
Spokesman.com
Nov 3, 2009 ...
View Blog: The reasons can include “androgen insensitivity syndrome,” in which people born with XY chromosomes – which is generally considered the combination for maleness – do not respond to testosterone. In cases of “complete insensitivity”

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View Post: What is Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome?
2 Jun 2009 by rekha  
Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome is a condition in which human body has insensitivity to androgen. In this condition, actually child born with male sex chromosomes but the external genitals develop along female line. ...
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View Post: why caster semenya is not a hermaphrodite
11 Sep 2009 by Sam Lister  
if the latter point is accurate, then ms semenya is not a hermaphrodite, but more likely the unfortunate sufferer of an intersex condition such as androgen insensitivity syndrome (ais). hermaphrodites have both male and female sexual ...
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View Post: Structural Coupling of of Hermaphrodism and the Androgynous ...
18 Oct 2009 by clarissal  
Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS). Gonadal Dysgenesis. Hypospadias. Turner Syndrome. Klinefelter Syndrome Genetically inherited malfunction of one or more of six enzymes involved in making steroid hormones. ...
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View Post: SHOOT: Does Semenya have androgen insensitivity syndrome?
21 Aug 2009 by nickvanderleek@gmail.com (Nick van der Leek)  
Another possibility is that she has a rare birth defect such as androgen insensitivity syndrome, in which women possess a male Y chromosome, but their bodies don't respond to male sex hormones, causing them to develop female genitalia. ...
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View Post: The Futile Yet Persistent Search to Define and Determine Gender ...
5 Nov 2009
(The continuum of AIS is explained more fully at the Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group; here is AISSG's U.S. chapter. Our Bodies Ourselves also recommends the Accord Alliance, which offers a useful glossary and identifies ...
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View Post: Gender: A Binary Category, or a Continuum? The Case of Caster Semenya
21 Oct 2009 by admin  
In the case of Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, the ability of cells to “hear” the masculinizing hormones known as androgens is lacking. That means the genitals and the rest of the external body look female-typical, except that these ...
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