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isn’t she 1/2 male too or is that an urban myth?


19 posted on 03/23/2008 10:50:08 AM PDT by llevrok ("Going over the cliff, flags flying, is still going over the cliff." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: llevrok
Most likely urban myth. In any case it would be no one's business but her own.

Many such cases involve female infants with "additions" ~ sometimes the child's adrenal glands continue to produce excess testosterone leading to lifelong difficulties.

Just be happy you don't have this problem.

28 posted on 03/23/2008 10:54:21 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: llevrok

The dirty secret is that “she” is really Richard Dean Anderson in drag.


38 posted on 03/23/2008 10:58:42 AM PDT by Content Provider
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To: llevrok
Long ago in college she was used as an example of an androgen immune human.

That is, during fetal development we all are default female but a cascade of androgens during pregnancy turns those with the male chromosome into a male.

Some fetuses are androgen resistant, and are genetically male, but still retain the morphology of a female.
Typically, these are culled by miscarriage, but not always.
These are medically known as “intersexed.”

If she is barren, that would be a big clue.
Since I have never personally examined her DNA, I cannot say with final authority, just that it is taught as such and that she has been named as an example in Med Schools.

44 posted on 03/23/2008 11:02:03 AM PDT by bill1952 (I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
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To: llevrok
isn’t she 1/2 male too or is that an urban myth?

I've heard this for some time as well..so I just looked it up on SNOPES and am even more surprised that it's still an unsubstantiated rumor, which has never been categorically denied. Interesting. Would make sense..she didn't carry her children, I believe. Also, it would make sense because it would mean SHE was gender neutral in her younger years and her Dad was gender neutral in his older years!!! :)

SNOPES ON JAMIE LEE CURTIS

58 posted on 03/23/2008 11:08:38 AM PDT by Hildy (Obama: "Yes, I sat in his church, but I didn't inhale.")
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To: llevrok

Made up-—
she looks a lot like her father in build and bone structure.


72 posted on 03/23/2008 11:14:10 AM PDT by najida (My nephew Ethan is here! Another baby to spoil and then hand back :))
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To: llevrok
isn’t she 1/2 male too or is that an urban myth?

http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/jamie.asp

Claim:   Actress Jamie Lee Curtis was born with both male and female sex organs.

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Origins:   What to make of the child of two successful and famous actors who grows up to achieve an equal measure of fame in the same field? What if this gal has a boyish-sounding name and adopts children rather than bears her own?

A rumor, apparently. And not a very nice one.

According to an oft-repeated whisper, Jamie Lee Curtis is an intersexual (the preferred medical term for persons of ambiguous gender, replacing 'hermaphrodite').

So? Is she, or isn't she?

We may never know. No one but Ms. Curtis, her parents, and her doctors has the definitive answer to this one, and none of them is talking. Curtis has repeatedly declined deigning to provide a response to this rumor, and her physicians — even if they had something to say and wanted to say it — are bound by doctor-patient confidentiality strictures.

This rumor is often lent credibility by people who have heard it repeated as fact by their university professors (especially those with specialties relating to intersexuality). Neither the hearer nor the teller ever seems to be able to provide a credible explanation of how he knows this piece of information to be true, the chain of transmission always tracing back to the notoriously unreliable "Someone else told me about it." As happens over and over, even the most trusted of sources can sometimes take a widespread rumor at face value, then parrot it as fact.

Okay, so we simply don't know. Why, then, is this rumor so widespread?

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Two facts lend an aura of credence to the rumor that Jamie Lee was born with both male and female bodyparts. The first is her two-way name: According to the rumor, a boyish appellation was bestowed upon her by parents who hadn't yet decided whether to have a boy or a girl "made" of their baby and wanted to be prepared to go either way, but that wasn't the case of it. Janet Leigh explained how she came to choose the name:

At that time, we didn't know ahead of time if it would be a girl or a boy, so when I was pregnant with Kelly, my best friend Jackie Gershwin said, "Why don't you call the baby Kelly, so if it's a girl, it works, and if it's a boy, it works?" And she thought the same thing with Jamie. The babies were named before they were born because Jackie said, "This way, we won't have to worry about it!"
If the names were truly chosen before the children arrived, that puts paid to the notion that 'Jamie Lee' was so christened in response to a medical condition that would only have been discovered after her delivery. (Jamie Lee Curtis was born long before the development of medical technology that could identify dual-gendered fetuses.)

The second fact that supports the rumor is Ms. Curtis' own children: They're adopted. Though couples opt for adoptive children over natural progeny for any number of reasons, it is true the operation necessary to correct dual gendering in a female infant would leave her unable to bear children.

Degrees of intersexuality vary in intensity from presence of an additional Y chromosome to being born with a mixed set of genitals. Treatment of cases of blatant intersexuality is generally (but not always) surgical in nature, with reconstruction performed on the infant patient to add or remove body parts so as to end up with a child completely male or female in physical appearance. Hormones are also given towards this end, but there is a limit to what can be corrected medically. Though an appearance of sexual normalcy can be constructed, fully functional reproductive organs cannot.

According to Dr. Anne Fausto-Sterling, a recognized expert in this field of study, 1-1/2 to 2 percent of all births do not fall strictly within the tight definition of all-male or all-female, even if the child looks "normal." In reaching her numbers, Dr. Fausto-Sterling is counting all incidents of intersexuality, from mild to extreme. The incidence of children with mixed genitalia is pegged at 1 in 2,000 to 1 in 3,000, or 0.033 to 0.05 percent of all births.

(Many technical names have been assigned to describe sexual ambiguity, including testicular feminization, transgendered, and androgen insensitivity syndrome. Rather than get bogged down here in descriptions of them, we direct readers to follow the link in the "Additional Information" section of this page for further discussion of the subject.)

Intersexuality is a reality; some children are ambiguously gendered at birth. However, one particular point needs to be made, and made quite vehemently: The existence of such medical conditions is not reason in itself to suppose that Jamie Lee Curtis has any of them. Using the one to bolster belief in the second is akin to claiming the existence of the Atlantic Ocean somehow proves a particular ship sank in it.

It is a telling commentary on the skewed importance we give any matter relating to sexuality that this rumor exists at all. Numerous children come into the world less than perfectly formed, yet no stigma is attached to those who require surgery to repair a malfunctioning heart, a disorder of the digestive system, or almost any other condition unrelated to gender. Yet when the question of sexuality is raised, it's all whispers behind hands and meaningful looks.

As only someone who has seen True Lies can say, if that's not all woman, then maybe we need to rethink what is. And while we're at it, let's see if we can't rethink what's a fit topic for gossip and what isn't.
203 posted on 03/23/2008 5:07:30 PM PDT by Screaming_Gerbil (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
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To: llevrok

it is true, my daughter said they just did a segment on her in her human sexuality class in college.


220 posted on 03/24/2008 2:11:44 PM PDT by vin-one (REMEMBER the WTC !!!!!!!!)
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