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Question 1

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Describe one example that Fausto-Sterling provides to question the idea that there are just two sexes.

Your Answer:

Males have an X and a Y chromosome, tests, a penis and all of the appropriate internal plumbing for delivering urine and semen to the outside world. They also have well known secondary sexual characteristics, including a muscular build and facial hair. Women have two X chromosomes, and ova to the outside the world, a system to support pregnancy and fetal development, as well as a variety of recognizable secondary sexual characteristic. 

Question 2

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Describe one example of how the idea that there are only two sexes has caused harm to intersex people.

Your Answer:

In the past century physicians have been the ones who defined children as inerrsexual and provide the remedies. 

Question 3

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Anne Fausto-Sterling is calling for something other than a system of just two sexes.  What is she arguing for?

Your Answer:

She argued that the 2 sexes system embedded in our society is not adequate to encompass the full spectrum of human sexuality.