Just sayin: Gender dysphoria is the significant emotional distress or discomfort a person feels from a mismatch between their internal sense of gender (gender identity) and the sex they were assigned at birth, often leading to a strong desire to live as a different gender, which can be managed with therapy, social transition, and sometimes hormones or surgery to align their body and life with their identity. Not all transgender or gender-diverse people experience this distress, but for those who do, treatment focuses on affirming their identity to relieve suffering, say Kaiser Permanente, ColumbiaDoctors, and Child Mind Institute. TRUE SCIENCE: humans aren't typically born without sexual organs entirely, but some individuals are born intersex with variations where genitals may be underdeveloped, ambiguous, or don't align with typical male/female binary, sometimes appearing to lack fully formed external genitalia or internal sex glands, as seen in conditions like Swyer Syndrome where functional gonads are absent, leading to underdeveloped secondary sex characteristics.
Understanding Intersex Variations
Disorders of Sexual Development (DSD): These are congenital conditions where a baby's external genitals, internal reproductive organs, or sex chromosomes don't fit typical definitions of male or female.
Atypical Genitalia: This means genitals might look different, be underdeveloped, or have features of more than one sex at birth, sometimes with no obvious external signs.
Swyer Syndrome (XY Gonadal Digenesis): Individuals with XY chromosomes are born with "streak gonads" (non-functional gonadal tissue) instead of testes or ovaries, appearing female externally but lacking hormone production for puberty.
Turner Syndrome (45X): Individuals with only one X chromosome develop female characteristics but are short, sterile, and have underdeveloped secondary sex traits, often needing hormone therapy.
Key Points
Internal vs. External: A baby might have ambiguous external genitals but developed internal reproductive organs that don't match, or vice versa, or both could be atypical.
Not Necessarily Obvious: Intersex traits can be present at birth, appear at puberty, or even be discovered later through imaging or surgery.
Not a Disorder: Being intersex isn't a disease; it's a natural variation in sex characteristics, though it can present challenges.
In essence, while most people have fully formed sexual organs, some intersex individuals experience conditions where these organs are atypical or undeveloped, fitting into a spectrum rather than a strict male/female mold from birth.
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