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The Biology Of Sex

TED Radio Hour

CHAPTER

Sex, Sexuality, and Intersex

intersex people represent around two per cent of the population, that's the same percentage as genetic redheadsh we're not new werrare. We've existed throughout every culture in history, yet we never talk about it. A friend of mine found out last year in his fifties, the executive director of interact, which is the leading organization for intersex human rights here in the u.S. She found out she was intersex ta age forty one. Her doctors found out when she was fifteen, but they didn't tell her. They lied and said that she had cancer, because that seemed like an easier option than finding out she wasn't fully a woman. It...

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