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3/11/01 9:40 PM

Other experts, like Sheri Berenbaum, a psychologist and professor of physiology at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, agree that the unfolding gender story is a complicated one.

Berenbaum has spent the last 15 years studying girls with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). This genetic disease causes the adrenal glands to produce excess androgens--the steroids that cause masculinization--a process that begins in the womb and can result in ambiguous genitals.

In a long-term study of 60 girls with CAH and their sisters who do not have CAH, Berenbaum found that CAH girls are more aggressive and more interested in male-typical activities, toys, and careers. They prefer working with engines to playing with makeup, for instance. Yet, the girls with CAH, who ranged in age from 3 to 18, were clearly female. They identified with girls and women and do not want to be boys.

One explanation for her findings, says Berenbaum, is that the children's brains have been exposed to enough androgen to result in male-typical behaviors but not enough to generate a male gender identity. But there are other theoretical possibilities, she says. One is that their parents, teachers and friends, who treated the children as girls, had significant input in shaping their gender identity, while androgen exposure influenced their gender role.

Concludes Berenbaum, "I think the story on gender identity has yet to be told."

In essence, even though it's obvious CAH girls are girls, they still want to hold on to the hurtful, idiotic concept that they are circus side show freaks. Facts and evidence be damned, let's call the "intersexed"

 

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