Sexual health of persons with DSD and 46,XY karyotype
V Schönbucher, K Schweizer, L Rustige, K Schützmann, H Richter-Appelt · Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde · 2008 · Heft 09
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Zusammenfassung
Background Disorders resp. Divergencies of Sex Development (DSD) comprise various forms of untypical sex development in which chromosomal, gonadal and/or anatomical sex characteristics do not all correspond to one sex. Up to now the common medical practice has included an immediate gender assignment after birth and sex-correcting medical interventions to avoid the risk of an impaired psychosexual development. However, there is no evidence whether the current medical treatment strategies in fact improve the psychosexual development of the children or whether they rather impair the sexual sensitivity of the genita…