Klinefelter syndrome

Yet another example of misreporting an intersex person, contributing to silencing, exclusion and erasure?

2 December 2011

“HISTORICALLY, Ms. Kay is one of the oldest living transgenders in this country having transitioned at the age of 17 after being diagnosed with Klienfelters [sic] Syndrome in 1967.” Ms Kay is most likely intersex. Rather than Klinefelter syndrome, she was probably simply born with chromosomes that are neither XX nor XY, such as XXY, [...]

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Breakthrough! XXY researchers admit not all XXY people are male, that some may be female and some may be intersex

10 October 2011

SOME XXY people have described this breakthrough as The Holy Grail. 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 [...]

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A New York story of an XXY woman

22 June 2011

WE are mindful of a range of beliefs about the XXY karyotype – about being male, being female and being intersex – often warring with each other out there in the wider community, so we were very interested to come across the story of Juno, formerly Alejandro, recently. A number of members of OII across [...]

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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 correction 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 [...]

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Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology: Neurocognitive outcomes of individuals with a sex chromosome trisomy: XXX, XXY or XYY: a systematic review

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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[Op/Ed] 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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JakartaGlobe: 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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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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Representations of Klinefelter Syndrome

12 May 2010

Author: Michael Noble Publication year: 2003, revised 2010 Copyright: © Copyright by Michael Noble 2010 Note: MICHAEL has asked that we point out that this paper was originally written in and around 2003 and that “I have seen some KS websites are now less reactive to the suggestion that XXY is an intersex condition than [...]

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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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