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- The Genesis of Gender Identity in the Male - Summary of the NYU study subtitled "Prenatal Androgen Effects on Gender Identity and Gender Role" which examined gender identity, gender reassignment, and related issues in 36 patients who are genetically male, but were born without a phallus.
- Ambiguous Genitalia: Stop Gender Assignment - An article by Deborah E. Brown, Director Intersex Support Group International, urging parents to avoid early invasive treatments.
- Making the Cut - Article from Ms. Magazine tracing the history of clitoridectomy from the 1800s when it was used to prevent masturbation to the modern practice of assigning gender to sexually ambiguous children.
- Astraea: Genital Surgery Controversy - Text of a New York Times article examining the legal issue of gender assignment surgery and comparing the practice to female genital mutilation.
- Am I a Woman? - Summary of a 1998 Mademoiselle article about intersex activist Angela Moreno in which she describes the lingering effects of her gender assignment surgery.
- The True Story of John/Joan - Story of an anonymous baby boy who was turned into a girl by doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1967 after the boy's penis was burned by an electro-cautery needle during circumcision.
- Sexual Scientists Question Medical Treatment of Hermaphroditism - Summary of a symposium titled "Genitals, Identity, and Gender," at the 1995 convention of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex.
- Genital Surgery On Intersexed Children - A letter from Cheryl Chase, Executive Director, Intersex Society of North America to a judge in Colombia, South America expressing the opinion that choices involving sexual identity and cosmetic genital surgery should be left to the patient.
- The Gender Centre Inc - Targeting people who identify as transsexual or transgender, cross-dressers and any other person who experienced issues, problems or difficulties relating to the gender assigned to them at birth.
- The Reed Centre for Genital Surgery - Offers gender re-assignment surgery for MTF and FTM transsexuals. Clinic tour, description of procedures with base pricing, and doctors background and qualifications. Near Miami, Florida.
Wikipedia Articles
- Changing legal gender assignment in Canada - The following is a list of procedures for changing one's legal sex assignment in Canada's provinces and territories.
- Gender of connectors and fasteners - In electrical and mechanical trades and manufacturing, each of a pair of mating connectors or fasteners is conventionally assigned the designation male or female. The assignment is by direct analogy with genitalia and sexual intercourse; the part bearing one or more protrusions, or which fits inside the other, being designated male and the part containing the corresponding indentations or fitting outside the other being female.
- Ronnie Aloha - Similar to "Jody," a recurring character in many a military cadence, Ronnie Aloha is a fictional name given to represent the person who steals your significant other while you are away from home on a wildfire assignment, studying abroad, or deployed overseas. Traditionally thought of as a male, the name "Ronnie Aloha" can be used to denote a rival of either gender.