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How common is intersex? a response to Anne Fausto-Sterling.

Journal of sex research - 1 Aug 2002

Sax Leonard

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Anne Fausto-Sterling s suggestion that the prevalence of intersex might be as high as 1.7% has attracted wide attention in both the scholarly press and the popular media. Many reviewers are not aware that this figure includes conditions which most clinicians do not recognize as intersex, such as Klinefelter syndrome, Turner syndrome, and late-onset adrenal hyperplasia. If the term intersex is to retain any...

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PMID: 12476264
DOI: 10.1080/00224490209552139

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