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"A Novel Sex Chromosome Mosaicism 45,X/45,Y/46,XY/46,YY/47,XYY Causing Ambiguous Genitalia"

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Interesting how they call this child a "boy" if the karyotype and genitalia are so ambiguous. Like, why???

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A three years old apparently male child was referred to Anhui Provincial hospital with a complaint of undifferentiated external genitalia.

It might just be that that's what they're registered as, or how parents referred to them, I guess?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Well, the child is three years old and certainly has no concept of gender/sex. So how and why is someone apparently assigning gender and sex to this child? Why not just keep it neutral? Especially in context of forced gender and sex assignations as well as intersex child mutilations. Shouldn't we be much more careful in this context not to force our biases and weird ideas of gender/sex onto children?!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

China is not known for social progressivism