ABSTRACT
The attention that has recently been focused on intersexed patients in the literature has helped alert medical practitioners to this rare but delicate problem. The surgical, endocrinological, genetic, and other physical aspects have been dealt with skillfully and thoughtfully in other places. The term “intersexed patient,” as we know, includes a heterogeneous group of people with ambiguities of the external or internal genitalia and gonads, or conflict between the apparance of the external genitalia and secondary sex characteristics. When the genitalia appear normal, no doubt is placed in the parents’ minds, and the upbringing of the child will then follow the course to which it was destined, just as occurs with every child in every family.
