The common pathway of sexual differentiation, where a human female has an xx chromosome pair, and a male has an xy pair, is relevant to the development of intersex conditions. Learn about a range of intersex conditions. Typically, people born with female body parts have two x chromosomes, and those born with male body parts have one x and one y
Intersex people can have xx or xy chromosomes, or other mixes of x and y chromosomes in various cells Physical gender is not always just a matter of xx or xy, girl or boy Let’s look at some examples
Most intersex people are healthy and surgery isn’t necessary. Xx and xy chromosomes are only part of the story Discover how sex chromosomes vary naturally and why biological sex isn't always binary Learn about dsds and intersex variations.
Intersex variations figure 8.26 a diverse range of human biological sex variation On the left are factors that influence sex differentiation Next to that is 46xx, meaning a person with 46 chromosomes of which two are xx These individuals would develop as female