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| quote: | Originally posted by Vivid Boy
take it from a guy who knows, thats not a womens vagina looks like |
you'd be surprised how common intersex or ambiguous genitals are... most hospitals have a policy of 'correcting' them to fit one of two ways society believes genitals should look. She's definitely not transgender, and I don't think she is intersex, like i said, probably just a lot of beef.
| quote: | It is common to believe that all people fall into one of two categories — female or male. But that is not true. Some people are born with external sex organs that are not easily identifiable as female or male. Other people have sex chromosomes that are different from the usual XX (female) or XY (male). People whose biological sex is not clear in these ways have intersex conditions. About 1 in 2,000 people born in the U.S. is intersex. There are many different ways that intersex conditions appear.
Genitals that are not easily identifiable as female or male are sometimes apparent at birth. But sometimes it is not obvious until puberty. People with intersex conditions may be considered sexually ambiguous in different ways:
They may have sex organs that appear to be somewhat female or male or both. They do not, however, have complete female genitals and complete male genitals.
They may have a large clitoris — more than two-fifths of an inch long.
They may have a small penis — less than an inch long.
Some babies are born with both ovarian and testicular tissue.
Some people have chromosomes that are different. Two common chromosomal intersex conditions are:
Turner Syndrome = XO
Klienfelter’s Syndrome = XXY
There are other differences a person could have that cannot be found without testing chromosomes and hormones, or examining internal sex organs. Sometimes the difference is never noticed, so some people have intersex conditions for their whole lives and never know.
Some intersex people are transgender, but intersex does not necessarily mean transgender, and transgender does not necessarily mean intersex.
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