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  2. Intersex - Wikipedia

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    Participants at the third International Intersex Forum, Malta, in December 2013. Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics, including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies".

  3. Intersex human rights - Wikipedia

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    Intersex people are born with sex characteristics, such as chromosomes, gonads, or genitals, that, according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies." [1]

  4. Gonad - Wikipedia

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    A gonad, sex gland, or reproductive gland [1] is a mixed gland and sex organ that produces the gametes and sex hormones of an organism. Female reproductive cells are egg cells, and male reproductive cells are sperm. [2] The male gonad, the testicle, produces sperm in the form of spermatozoa. The female gonad, the ovary, produces egg cells

  5. Sexual differentiation in humans - Wikipedia

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    The embryo and subsequent early fetus appear to be sexually indifferent, looking neither like a male or a female. Over the next several weeks, hormones are produced that cause undifferentiated tissue to transform into either male or female reproductive organs. This process is called sexual differentiation.

  6. Genetic diagnosis of intersex - Wikipedia

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    Intersex people are born with natural variations in physical and sex characteristics including those of the chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones, or genitals that, according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit the typical definitions for male or female bodies".

  7. Sex segregation - Wikipedia

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    Women-only passenger car, Malaysia A note at the male public toilet in Edinburgh Airport about the fact that female cleaners might work there Main article: Capability approach For most children, sex segregation manifests itself early in the socialization process via group socialization theory , where children are expected to behave in certain ...

  8. Sexual differentiation - Wikipedia

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    Sexual differentiation is the process of development of the sex differences between males and females from an undifferentiated zygote. [1] [2] Sex determination is often distinct from sex differentiation; sex determination is the designation for the development stage towards either male or female, while sex differentiation is the pathway towards the development of the phenotype.

  9. Glossary of American slavery - Wikipedia

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    Fancy girl: Enslaved women sold for sexual exploitation, usually young, usually with light skin color, usually at price points significantly above that for field hands or even skilled mechanics. [8] Field holler: African American work songs with roots in the plantation era. Gang system: Form of enslaved-labor management, contrast task system.