We are often struck by how strenuously medicine and science sometimes work to avoid using the word intersex, and how their practitioners may do and say anything to skirt around acknowledging that intersex exists.
TS-Si report, Chromosomal Variations Affect Nearly All Human Embryos.
This article reported at TS-Si is an example: Chromosomal Variations Affect Nearly All Human Embryos. The sidebar is of particular note, listing a number of karyotypes that can lead to intersex while strenuously avoiding the word intersex altogether.
Sidebar, Chromosomal Variations Affect Nearly All Human Embryos at TS-Si.
Citations:
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Chromosome instability is common in human cleavage-stage embryos, at Nature.com.
- Fertilization in vitro: Chromosomal abnormalities in human embryos, at Nature.com.
