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SIGNATURE ASSIGNMENT GILL 1

ANTH 1020 Human Origins

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Kealey Gill

Salt Lake Community College

June 2016

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Humans often reject or condemn what they don’t understand. Society has developed a set

of false perceptions about sex, gender, race, and ethnicity that have no basis in reality and can be

scientifically disproven. The two articles, Genes and Hormones: What Make Up an Individual’s

Sex and Climate-Related Morphological Variation and Physiological Adaptations in Homo

sapiens, discuss various ways that sex, gender, race, and ethnicity perceptions conflict with

scientific reality.

Sex and Gender

In the article entitled Genes and Hormones: What Make Up an Individual’s Sex, Crocetti

mentioned several “disorders” stemming from gender: intersexuality or DSD, AIS, and

Klinefelters. Intersexuality, commonly referred to as disorders of sex development (DSD), is

diagnosed when an individual‘s gendered development deviates from the statistical norm. These

individuals have consistent gender identities but may suffer from the stigma of the medical

treatment they receive during childhood. Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) is a syndrome

in which the XY chromosomes do not produce a recognizable male. As the body develops,

Wolffian structures and “male” gonads form internally, while externally “female” genitals and

secondary sex characteristics develop. The most common symptom is sterility. Approximately 1

in 2000 people have been diagnosed with AIS. In Klinefelter’s syndrome, individuals have three

chromosomes, XXY, with the primary symptom being infertility. It is estimated to occur in 1 out

of 700 people. These disorders are often treated with hormone replacement therapy and in some

cases the surgical manipulation of children’s genitals to conform to social expectations.

Surgical manipulation of a child’s genitals seems to be an extreme reaction to a cosmetic

diagnosis. I would consider it to be invasive, especially at such an age when an individual’s body

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SIGNATURE ASSIGNMENT GILL 1 ANTH 1020 Human Origins Signature Assignment Kealey Gill Salt Lake Community College June 2016 SIGNATURE ASSIGNMENT 2 Humans often reject or condemn what they don’t understand. Society has developed a set of false perceptions about sex, gender, race, and ethnicity that have no basis in reality and can be scientifically disproven. The two articles, Genes and Hormones: What Make Up an Individual’s Sex and Climate-Related Morphological Variation and Physiological Adaptations in Homo sapiens, discuss various ways that sex, gender, race, and ethnicity perceptions conflict with scientific reality. Sex and Gender In the article entitled Genes and Hormones: What Make Up an Individual’s Sex, Crocetti mentioned several “disorders” stemming from gender: intersexuality or DSD, AIS, and Klinefelters. Intersexuality, commonly referred to as disorders of sex development (DSD), is diagnosed when an individual‘s gendered development deviates from the statistical norm. These individuals have consistent gender identities but may suffer from the stigma of the medical treatment they receive during childhood. Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) is a syndrome in which the XY chromosomes do not produce a recognizable male. As the body develops, Wolffian structures and “male” gonads form internally, while externally “female” genitals and secondary sex characteristics develop. The most common symptom is sterility. Approximately 1 in 2000 people h ...
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