Klinefelter syndrome

Breakthrough: XXY researchers acknowledge not all XXY people are male

10 October 2011

RESEARCHERS at a cluster of respected Melbourne medical institutes, hospitals and universities have admitted in a letter to the editor of the International Journal of Andrology, The Official Journal of the European Academy of Andrology, that not all people with the XXY karyotype are male and that some may be female and some may be [...]

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Adele shares on the eve of correction surgery

29 January 2011

OII Australia wishes Adele Markham well in her recuperation from urogenital surgery and that she will enjoy a long and happy life as herself. The Mail Online reports… ‘The doctor explained I had something called Klinefelter’s syndrome, which meant that I wasn’t really male, or female, but ‘Intersex” – a mix of both. ‘I was [...]

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Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology: “Neurocognitive outcomes of individuals with a sex chromosome trisomy”

12 October 2010

Method: We conducted a systematic review of the past five decades of published data on cognitive and behavioural outcomes of individuals with an extra sex chromosome. The data were obtained primarily through published articles, although authors were contacted for clarification where appropriate. The online Web of Knowledge database was used to identify English-language articles, using [...]

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[Opinion] Jo Proctor: Neo-Eugenics and Its War Against Human Biological Diversity

17 August 2010

Author: Jo Proctor, board member, OII Australia NEO-EUGENICS or ‘new eugenics’ is the term given to modern medicine’s rapidly evolving biotechnological ability to identify and terminate a raft of congenital variations at increasingly early stages of fetal development.

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LENScience Senior Biology Seminar Series: “Human Aneuploidy and Related Biotechnologies”

12 August 2010

IN 2008, 64,343 children were born in New Zealand, 51% male and 49% female. All arose as a result of a successful conception, pregnancy and birth. However, pregnancy isn’t always straightforward and many conceptions do not result in live births or result in live births which bring with them challenges for both parents and child, [...]

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European Journal of Endocrinology: “Quality of life is reduced in patients with Klinefelter syndrome on androgen replacement therapy”

12 August 2010

Abstract Context: Klinefelter syndrome (KS) is a genetic disorder, characterized by an XXY karyotype, hypergonadotrophic hypogonadism and infertility, which affects ~1 in 700 men. KS has also been associated with neuropsychological alterations. Objective: To investigate whether quality of life (QoL) is reduced in patients with KS on androgen treatment. Design: Observational study. Methods: Questionnaires (RAND-36) [...]

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Jakarta Globe: “Boy Listed As Girl Is Really a Boy, Doctors, Census Takers Say”

4 June 2010

MAEMUNAH underwent tests at Karyadi Hospital to find out whether he has Klinefelter’s syndrome, which causes male genitalia to develop late. Klinefelter’s syndrome, according to Indra G Mansur, a University of Indonesia andrologist, is a chromosomal disorder affecting males that causes them to look like females. Dr. Ardy Santosa, a urologist at Karyadi Hospital, confirmed [...]

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Jakarta Globe: “Gender Confusion a Lifelong Struggle for Those With Klinefelter Syndrome”

31 May 2010

THERE are additional psychological impacts. The syndrome is not usually detected until the sufferer reaches puberty, at which time changes in the body occur. Some parents, therefore, believing their child is female, raise them as such, which “often causes great frustration because they feel like a man but are forced to live as a woman,” [...]

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OII Australia Dialog with Andrology Australia about XXY People Not Men

5 May 2010

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Gina … wrote: PARTICIPANTS NEEDED FOR STUDY INTO THE PERSONAL IMPACTS OF KLINEFELTER SYNDROME Dear Amy I have received information about a study into Klinefelters you are conducting. I was curious to know why you are only interested in studying XXY men. Organisation Intersex International has many [...]

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JakartaGlobe: “Gender Confusion Lands Suspect in Women’s Prison”

5 May 2010

ALTHOUGH Alterina Hofan says he is a man, authorities think otherwise and have detained him at Pondok Bambu Women’s Penitentiary for allegedly falsifying his personal data. Alter, as the 32-year-old is also known, said he was born a boy but because his male genitalia did not develop properly when he was a baby, his mother [...]

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The Independent: “The third sex: The truth about gender ambiguity”

21 March 2010

ADELE Addams wasn’t given such a choice. Born in the late 1970s, she has Klinefelter’s Syndrome, so is XXY; chromosomally neither male nor female, in other words. Her parents were encouraged to assign her as male, and surgery was performed immediately. In her mind, this was “the wrong decision”. After a difficult childhood and adolescence [...]

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‘Rogue Genes’ in Men Reported in the UK Daily Mail

29 July 2009

The UK Daily Mail writes on XXY. The word intersex is not mentioned in this article about XXY men. As usual, we wish to point out that although most XXY people are not intersex and are male, some XXY people are indeed intersex, some are female, some are neither male nor female and some are [...]

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