Intersex conditions / disorders of sex development

Published on February 28, 2023   28 min

A selection of talks on Reproduction & Development

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Hello, my name is Rodolfo Rey, I'm a physician and a researcher of the CONICET the National Research Council of Argentina at the Center for Endocrine Research at the Buenos Aires Children's Hospital and we will discuss today intersects conditions or disorders of sex development so this is the talk outline.
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I will start by a brief introduction on the biological and sociological concepts of sex and gender. To then address the biological aspects of fetal sex differentiation and devote most of the talk to intersex conditions or disorders of sex development that some authors like to call differences of sex development.
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Sex refers to the biological aspects of an individuals, for example ovaries are the female gonads while testes, are the male gonads, estrogens are predominantly female hormones, whereas androgens are predominantly male hormones. Whereas gender as a more psycho-social meaning and refers to the self-perception of an individual as a male or a female, non-binary or other possibilities, and also to the perception of others. That is the gender role in society so when we talk about sex and gender,
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we can address it from different aspects. The genetic aspect, that is the chromosomal and genetic sex that will influence the anatomic and physiological aspects. That is the gonadal sex, genital sex, and also the sex of other organs that are not as dimorphic as the gonads or the genitalia, but shows some differences between sexes and then the cycle social aspects, that is the legal gender or sex assignment. The gender of rearing, gender role behavior or expression, gender identity and sexual orientation. I will not refer to the psychosocial aspects, but we'll concentrate on the genetic aspects and anatomic and physiological aspects of sex in this talk so when referring to

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