Author Question: When an intersexed infant is born in the United States, a. most people manage to accept that the ... (Read 94 times)

yoroshambo · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

When an intersexed infant is born in the United States,

a. most people manage to accept that the infant does not need to fit into either the female or the male category.
b. physicians are typically androcentric, so they almost always recommend surgery to create the standard male genitals.
c. physicians usually recommend surgery so that the external genitals look more like either the standard male genitals or the standard female genitals.
d. most parents prefer to postpone surgery until the child is old enough to choose either a male or a female identity.

Question 2

People who have androgen-insensitivity syndrome

a. are females, genetically, yet they are raised as males.
b. may seem to be normal females until puberty.
c. have extreme difficulties in the acquisition of gender typing.
d. are usually able to have children.