What's the difference between gender and intersex?

Gender


Definition:

  • (n.) Kind; sort.
  • (n.) Sex, male or female.
  • (n.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.
  • (n.) To beget; to engender.
  • (v. i.) To copulate; to breed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Large gender differences were found in the correlations between the RAS, CR, run frequency, and run duration with the personality, mood, and locus of control scores.
  • (2) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
  • (3) The purposes of this study were to assess the career development needs of entering medical students as measured by the Medical Career Development Inventory and to examine gender differences in responses to the inventory.
  • (4) This "gender identity movement" has brought together such unlikely collaborators as surgeons, endocrinologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, gynecologists, and research specialists into a mutually rewarding arena.
  • (5) Cloacal exstrophy, centered on the maldevelopment of the primitive streak mesoderm and cloacal membrane, results in bladder and intestinal exstrophy, omphalocele, gender confusion, and hindgut deformity.
  • (6) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
  • (7) The results of conventional sciatic nerve stretching tests are usually evaluated regardless of patient age, gender or movements of the hip joint and spine.
  • (8) Principal conclusions are: 1) rapid change to predominantly heterosexual HIV transmission can occur in North America, with serious societal impact; 2) gender-specific clinical features can lead to earlier diagnosis of HIV infection in women; 3) HIV infection in women does not pursue an inherently more rapid course than that observed in men.
  • (9) Office of National Statistics figures published in November last year showed that men earn 9.4% more than women, the lowest gender gap since records began in 1997.
  • (10) A group called Campaign for Houston , which led the opposition, described the ordinance as “an attack on the traditional family” designed for “gender-confused men who … can call themselves ‘women’ on a whim”.
  • (11) Although complement levels varied independent of disease activity, strain-dependent and intra-strain gender-dependent differences, were detected.
  • (12) The mentor's administrative or academic rank, rather than gender, was the chief determinant of sponsoring effectiveness.
  • (13) The effects of menstrual cycle phases and gender on alprazolam pharmacokinetics were evaluated in normal volunteers.
  • (14) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
  • (15) To determine the contribution of gender and race to the course of infarction, 816 patients with confirmed myocardial infarction who were enrolled in the Multicenter Investigation of the Limitation of Infarct Size (MILIS) were analyzed.
  • (16) The covariates included in the analysis were age, gender, socioeconomic status, and primary language.
  • (17) The relationships of age, gender, height, and weight to axial length of the globe were considered.
  • (18) There were no gender or age differences in the level of family history of alcoholism.
  • (19) This study investigated gender differences in acute response to alcohol.
  • (20) Read more “We know Tafe can be transformative for people who are doing it hard, bringing new skills to Indigenous communities, helping close the gender pay gap, empowering mature-age workers with the chance to retrain – not standing by while people from Holden and Ford are cast on the scrapheap,” Shorten will say.

Intersex


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A reciprocal translocation, identified as t(6p+; 14q-), is described in a 38,XX intersex pig.
  • (2) Moreover, the presence of a loss-of-function runt mutation masculinizes triploid intersexes.
  • (3) Before 1975, the management of intersex was associated with a later age at diagnosis and initial operation, and a higher incidence of multistaged procedures performed by multiple surgeons from different specialties.
  • (4) There was no acknowledgement in the agreement of the “deep pain these decisions will cause, nor any concern for the pastoral care of [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and intersex] Christians,” she said.
  • (5) Multiple genetic, molecular, and transformation experiments show that female-specific activation of genes or gene products occurs in the order Sex lethal greater than transformer greater than transformer-2 greater than doublesex greater than or equal to intersex greater than female differentiation.
  • (6) Hence, RNA synthesis in vitro was unspecific and did not reflect the in vivo RNA synthesis.--On the other hand, E.coli RNA polymerase completely mimics in vitro the dosage compensation phenomenon making twice as much RNA on one X-chromosome of males (1X2A) as on each of X-chromosomes of diploid (2X2A) and triploid (3X3A) females and super-females (3X2A), and the intermediate amount of RNA on each of X-chromosomes of intersexes (2X3A).
  • (7) Triploid intersexes homozygous for a mutant (msl-2) known to impede the hyperactivation of the X chromosome in diploid males differentiate into adults, sexually indistinguishable from their heterozygous sibs.
  • (8) Data on gross morphology, histology of the genitalia, and genetic sex using blood, skin and gonads were employed for the classification of the type of intersex in each case.
  • (9) To do this, we monitored the sexual behaviors of flies with mutations in the transformer (tra), doublesex (dsx) and intersex (ix) genes.
  • (10) This unexpected result is rationalized in terms of differential lethality of individuals at the two extremities of the distribution of X-activity levels in intersexes raised at a particular temperature.
  • (11) Genetic and molecular tests with this ectopically expressed gene are consistent with the following order of gene action: X chromosome to autosome ratio----Sex lethal----transformer----transformer-2----doublesex----intersex--- - terminal differentiation.
  • (12) An enzyme-linked immunoassay (ELISA) for AMH was used to investigate three intersex infants.
  • (13) An increased risk of harbouring CIS has been reported in men with a history of cryptorchidism, in contralateral testes of men previously treated for unilateral germ cell tumour, in intersex patients, in men with assumed extragonadal germ cell tumour and possibly in infertile men.
  • (14) In this article the intersex disorders are discussed, with particular emphasis on the chromosomal and endocrine investigations.
  • (15) "We now hope that this step forward translates into real improvements in the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people in Uganda, who have been trapped in a vicious circle of discrimination, threats, abuse and injustice for too long."
  • (16) Recognition of the intersex goat, which may have a masculine, feminine, or intermediate phenotype, is necessary in herds where naturally polled animals are bred.
  • (17) Recently, however, some Muniri, Dunkwi and northern Simbari hamlets recognize these individuals as male in infancy and rear them as boys, calling them 'kwalatmala' to distinguish them from normal males, accepting them as an intersex destined to occupy male adult roles.
  • (18) In a liberal democracy – one that values equality before the law – public institutions should not be able to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex status.
  • (19) Other cases of equine intersexes are reviewed and theories for the discrepancies between genetic, gonadal and phenotypic sex are discussed.
  • (20) Intersex states are rare but if unsuspected may cause diagnostic confusion.