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198: The Science of PCOS (with Leena Norms)

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What Is Intersex?

There's so many different routes to being classed as intersex. You can have androgen insensitivity syndrome, which would mean you'd have sort of XY chromosomes and the S.R.Y gene producing androgens but your body just doesn't react in that way. I feel like I was prescribed things that actually should have just been prescribed to society. Maybe it's how we perceive women to be like hairless and fertile and slippery and shiny. This is, this is kind of my point. But where did the moustache come from? Oh, he was calling me pistio because I had a moustache. Which is devastating at the time... That is so funny now

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