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Lorna, Jessie, Sal and Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia

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Lorna, Jessie, Sal and Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia

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Lorna, Jessie, Sal and Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia

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Lorna, Jessie, Sal and Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia book

ByCatherine Harper
BookIntersex

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2007
Imprint Routledge
Pages 17
eBook ISBN 9781003103554

ABSTRACT

In genetic female foetuses with classical congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), the adrenal gland’s overproduction of testosterone produces varying degrees of virilization of the developing external genitalia. Genetic female infants experiencing a salt-wasting crisis after birth will be diagnosed as having CAH, and will be most usually assigned female, with surgery/hormone treatment to ‘feminize’ their ambiguous or fully virilized genitals. Jessie, who was named sometime after her birth, had no vaginal opening, an enlarged clitoris and almost-separate labia. An ultrasound indicated the presence of a uterus and ovaries, and a genetic test revealed that Jessie is a genetic female. Sal is about twenty years older than Kellie and Jessie, and describes the clitoral amputation she went through at three months of age as ‘traumatic’. Creighton called for a long-term study of the outcomes of surgical management of conditions such as Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia exactly because that management remains controversial.

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