isn’t she 1/2 male too or is that an urban myth?
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.
The dirty secret is that “she” is really Richard Dean Anderson in drag.
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.
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!!! :)
Made up-—
she looks a lot like her father in build and bone structure.
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
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:
The second fact that supports the rumor is
Degrees of intersexuality vary in intensity from presence of an additional
According to
(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.
it is true, my daughter said they just did a segment on her in her human sexuality class in college.