Explain why sex is not always clear-cut. Discuss intersexed ...

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Explain why sex is not always clear-cut. Discuss intersexed people, transgendered people, and cross-dressers.
 
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Question 2

__________ provide, for a set monthly fee, total care with an emphasis on prevention to avoid costly treatment later.
 
  a. Third-party payer programs
 b. Federally funded programs
 c. Fee-for-service
 d. Health maintenance organizations (HMOs)

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Answer to Question 1

Occasionally, a hormone imbalance before birth produces an intersexed persona

person in whom sexual differentiation is ambiguous or incomplete. Intersexed persons

tend to have some combination of male and female genitalia. Some people may be

genetically of one sex but have a gender identity of the other. That is true for a

transgendered persona person in whom the sex-related structures of the brain that

define gender identity may be opposite from the physical sex organs of the person's

body. Consequently, transgendered persons often feel that they are the opposite sex

from that of their sex organs. Transgendered persons may become aware of this

conflict between gender identity and physical sex as early as the preschool years.

Some transsexuals take hormone treatments or have a sex change operation to alter

their genitalia in order to achieve a body congruent with their sense of sexual identity.

Cross- dressers are men who live as women or females who live as men without

altering their genitalia. Although transvestites are not treated as a third sex, they often

pass for members of that sex because their appearance and mannerisms fall within

the range of what is expected from members of the other sex. Some researchers

believe that both transsexuality and homosexuality have a common prenatal cause

such as a critically timed hormonal release due to stress in the mother or the presence

of certain hormone- mimicking chemicals during critical stages of fetal development.

Answer to Question 2

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