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Tuesday, July 7, 2009 12:00 AM

We're all intersex

The author of "Between XX and XY" on people born neither male nor female -- and why everyone's a little bit of both
By Thomas Rogers

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  • Monday, July 6, 2009 09:49 PM

    So now the XO condition...

    and other sex-genetic anomalies are just part of a happy rainbow continuum of sexuality?

    Horse shit. Sometimes there's a glitch in our genes: a cleft palate here, a flipper baby there. They are deviations from the norm and we should want to correct/prevent them.

    And no, I'm not talking about homosexuality. But this type of transgender chromosomal mash-up needs to be recognized for the disorder that it is.

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