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Intersex variations of sex development: Implications for families

by Sharon Preves, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology, Hamline University

Welcoming a newborn child into an expectant family and surrounding community is fraught with emotion. Imagine how emotions in the delivery room might change if a newborn were pronounced "intersexed,"-a condition with external genitalia that are not clearly female or male, as occurs in 1 or 2 in 2,000 births.

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