Dan Seitz

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People with conditions like Michael’s are today described as “intersex.” It’s an umbrella under which many extremely rare conditions sit, including androgen insensitivity syndrome, in which a person with male chromosomes appears entirely female because their body doesn’t recognize testosterone, and congenital adrenal hyperplasia, in which women are born looking female but have high levels of male hormones, which can cause ambiguous genitalia.
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