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were the same three who deviated in Table 

 23.3; they appeared again as deviants in 

 Table 23.4. 



It is rare in hermaphroditism for either 

 the uterus or the prostate to reach func- 

 tional maturity without medical interven- 

 tion. There were 3 patients among the 25 

 in Table 23.5 for whom this statement did 

 not hold; despite the fact that the 3 had 

 grown up with a normal uterus, they had 

 been reared as boys and had a thoroughly 

 masculine gender role. In view of these find- 

 ings there seems no reason to suspect any 

 correlation between gender role and the in- 

 ternal accessory organs. 



5. External Genital Appearance 



The a]iiiearance at birth of the external 

 genitals usually dictates the sex to which 

 a baby is assigned and in which it is reared. 



As a child grows older the appearance of 

 the external genitals is a bodily feature of 

 importance to the child's private assured- 

 ness of being a boy or a girl. 



When a hermaphroditic baby is born the 

 medical attendants are likely to be less 

 casual in declaring its sex from external ap- 

 pearance alone. Nevertheless in reviewing 

 the histories of a large number of babies 

 born with anomalous external genitalia it 

 was our impression that in the majority of 

 cases the external genital appearance was a 

 primary consideration in the initial assign- 

 ment of sex. It is perhaps remarkable that 

 some children, in fact, are reared in a sex 

 contradicting their predominant external 

 genital appearance. Moreover, it is even pos- 

 sible for such hermaphrodites to establish a 

 gender role entirely in agreement with as- 

 signed sex and rearing, despite the para- 



TABLE 23.5 

 Internal accessory organs and rearing contradictory: 25 cases 



Cryptorchid hermaphrodites with incomplete Mlillerian 

 differentiation (varietv 5): total, 8 



Simulant females with feminizing testes (varietv 6): to- 

 tal, 9 



8 cT > 9 

 (vestigial) 



9cf > 9 



6 9 



1 cf 



1 9 



9 9 



5 9 

 3 ^ 



9 9 



Additional Data 



