• Female pseudohermaphroditism refers to an individual with ovaries but with secondary sexual characteristics or external genitalia resembling those of a male. (britannica.com)
  • Male pseudohermaphroditism refers to individuals whose gonads are testes but whose secondary sexual characteristics or external genitalia resemble those of a female. (britannica.com)
  • A transgender person is someone whose gender identity is inconsistent or not culturally associated with the sex they were assigned at birth and also with the gender role that is associated with that sex. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2003 Parliament enacted the Alteration of Sex Description and Sex Status Act, which allows a transgender person who has undergone medical or surgical gender reassignment to apply to the Department of Home Affairs to have the sex description altered on their birth record. (wikipedia.org)
  • Transgender - An individual whose gender identity doesn't match their sex assigned at birth. (csrwire.com)
  • In an opinion piece in The Washington Post , University of Virginia Law School professors Anne Coughlin and Naomi Cahn claimed that cross-sex medication "has been shown to reduce the risk of depression and suicide for transgender youth," and that "banning it creates an excruciating conflict for parents, as the steps they take to preserve their children's lives may lead the state to investigate and punish them. (heritage.org)
  • Meanwhile, in a more positive development, a Lebanese judge ruled that a transgender man could have his sex changed in the official records. (al-bab.com)
  • We assessed residential proximity to HIV testing venues for Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) and Transgender Women (TGW) attending Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) at a large urban MSM clinic in Bangkok, Thailand in the period 2005-2015. (cdc.gov)
  • We will examine the patterns of care (telemedicine use and care disruption/recovery) over time following California's shelter-in-place order and the subphases in the ongoing COVID period, and by patient characteristics (age, sex, race/ethnicity, language, cancer type, comorbidity, socioeconomic status). (sutterhealth.org)
  • Adults should be able to earn a living and pursue a vocation knowing that they will not be fired, demoted, or mistreated because of whom they go home to or because how they dress does not conform to sex -based stereotypes. (cbc-network.org)
  • Gender identity renders sex-based protections null and void, replacing them with what are essentially nothing more than protections for sex-role stereotypes. (cbc-network.org)
  • To this end, it makes use of the Belgian legal order as an illustration of a Western national legal system that is responsive to human rights claims of sexual minorities, but remains anchored in heteronormative stereotypes. (ebook.nl)
  • The Constitution of South Africa forbids discrimination on the basis of sex, gender and sexual orientation (amongst other grounds). (wikipedia.org)
  • People should be able to access healthcare and secure a roof over their heads without being subjected to sex discrimination. (cbc-network.org)
  • Title VII, also referred to as The Civil Rights Act of 1964 , was passed to prohibit employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. (cbc-network.org)
  • At the moment, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) told CNN that they were working on developing their own guidelines in order to "shape sport specific policies and regulations in relation to fairness, safety and inclusivity and non-discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sex characteristics. (refinery29.com)
  • That means balancing the right to oppose same-sex marriage, a view held by some religious people, against the right of LGBTQ people to be free from discrimination. (npr.org)
  • People could not face discrimination in employment, for example, on the basis of those characteristics, just as they can't because of their race, sex, religion or age. (npr.org)
  • For example, in the critically important field of employment discrimination, the mandate of the law is that irrelevant characteristics such as age, race, sex, and marital status should not make a difference in hiring and firing decisions. (findlaw.com)
  • When the act says that individuals are to be protected from discrimination based on race, sex, and marital status, it grants protection to natural persons on the basis of these peculiarly and exclusively human characteristics. (findlaw.com)
  • In addition the code on administrative offenses prescribes a substantial fine or detention for up to 15 days for violating protective orders, battery, intended infliction of pain, and psychological or physical suffering committed against a close family member. (state.gov)
  • It is an act based on the relations between the sexes, that causes physical and psychological damages and/or suffering for the woman 5 . (bvsalud.org)
  • Gender reassignment is a protected characteristic, alongside the other protected characteristics such as age, race, sex, sexual orientation and disability in the Equality Act 2010. (lexology.com)
  • Third, we investigate whether the effect of the question format varies by key characteristics of the respondent, such as age, race, and relationship status with sexual partner. (cdc.gov)
  • Gender is a category created to demonstrate that the vast majority of differences between the sexes are socially and culturally constructed from differentiated social roles, and that in the patriarchal order, poles of domination and submission are created. (bvsalud.org)
  • The following text and Table provide a brief comparison of mpox characteristics to those of other infectious causes of genital skin lesions. (health.mil)
  • Adjusted sampling weights were computed in order to inflate the sample so as to closely reflect the 23 million youths in the U.S. population at that time in terms of age, sex, and certain other demographic characteristics. (cdc.gov)
  • And biological males, if they identify as women, should be able to pursue employment opportunities historically limited by sex to females. (cbc-network.org)
  • The term gender is defined as the social construction of sex, differentiating itself from the variable "sex" because this refers to the biological dimension of anatomical and physiological characterization of human beings, recognized as essential and innate in determining the distinctions between men and women. (bvsalud.org)
  • Sex describes characteristics and biological differences, which are exclusively related to anatomy and physiology. (bvsalud.org)
  • Violence at schools based on sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or sex characteristics occurs everywhere in Europe and is acutely underreported. (coe.int)
  • Violence based on sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or sex characteristics (SOGIEC-based violence) is rooted in cultural norms and expectations about gender and gender roles. (coe.int)
  • New Biden Executive Order Details Plan For Feds To Collect Sexual Orientation, Gender identity, and Sex Characteristics Data: An Old Acronym Now Takes Center Stage: SOGI. (jdsupra.com)
  • In July, the Biden administration released another executive order creating a new federal subcommittee on sexual orientation and gender identity-or SOGI-data under the working group's authority "to advance the responsible and effective collection and use of data on sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics. (nextgov.com)
  • For the first time, this Juristat measures the 'fall-out' of sexual assault cases in the Canadian criminal justice system in order to provide vital context for how sexual assaults are handled in the justice system. (gc.ca)
  • Attrition and conviction outcomes are also analyzed by characteristics of the sexual assault incident (e.g., location, weapon use, delay in reporting to police), the accused, the victim (e.g., age, sex, physical injury), and the relationship between them in order to provide more detail on how certain factors may be related to a higher likelihood of dropping out of the justice system. (gc.ca)
  • The implications of this general argument are explored in detail in three general areas of proposed decriminalization: consensual adult sexual relations (in particular, homosexuality in Chapter 2 and commercial sex in Chapter 3), drug use in Chapter 4, and decisions on the right to die in Chapter 5. (druglibrary.net)
  • The Right to Personal Autonomy Regarding Sex, Gender and Sexual Orientation investigates whether a legal framework based on (the recognition of a right to) personal autonomy regarding sex (characteristics), gender (identity/expression) and sexual orientation could still enhance the legal status of LGBTIQ+ persons. (ebook.nl)
  • Given that nations are invariably imagined in symbols of sex and gender - represented by ideals of masculinity and femininity, with the conventional family as the building block of the nation, it is no wonder sexual minorities are one of those outsider groups blamed for a nation's ills. (hrw.org)
  • By turning the genes on or off as necessary, the androgen receptor helps direct the development of male sexual characteristics. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Because their bodies are unable to respond to androgens, they may have mostly female sex characteristics or signs of both male and female sexual development. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Lowering legal barriers to make it easier for minors to undergo cross-sex medical interventions without parental consent does not reduce suicide rates-in fact, it likely leads to higher rates of suicide among young people in states that adopt these changes. (heritage.org)
  • U.S. policymakers are seeking to make it easier for minors to access puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones based on the claim that doing so reduces suicide risk. (heritage.org)
  • A superior research design shows that easing access to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones by minors without parental consent increases suicide rates. (heritage.org)
  • Other advocates, members of the media, and even White House staff invoke scientific authority to assert that cross-sex medical interventions reduce the risk of suicide. (heritage.org)
  • REF This Backgrounder reviews existing research on the relationship between cross-sex interventions and suicide, and then presents a new empirical analysis that examines whether easing access by adolescents to these interventions is likely to result in fewer adolescent suicides. (heritage.org)
  • Under "modified" CR, premium variations are allowed to compensate for certain risk characteristics such as age, sex, and family size, but not for others such as health status or lifestyle choices. (heartland.org)
  • The variations change the number or order of DNA building blocks (base pairs) that make up the AR gene. (medlineplus.gov)
  • It also describes the characteristics of victims and of those accused of trafficking in persons and presents information on criminal court cases related to trafficking in persons. (gc.ca)
  • The reason we do this is because males have testosterone, a hormone linked to hostility, and a man must only show what characteristics are defined as being masculine. (ostatic.com)
  • Androgens and androgen receptors also have other important functions in both males and females, such as regulating hair growth and sex drive. (medlineplus.gov)
  • States should also tighten the criteria for receiving cross-sex treatments, including raising the minimum eligibility age. (heritage.org)
  • Understanding how violence occurs from gender relations is essential in order for the phenomenon to be addressed. (bvsalud.org)
  • AASs are drugs derived from the modification of the testosterone molecule in order to augment or limit certain characteristics of testosterone. (medscape.com)
  • The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) ruled on Wednesday that women athletes who have high testosterone levels will have to take hormone-suppressing drugs in order to be eligible to participate in major competitions, including the Olympics. (refinery29.com)
  • Sex, Drugs, Death, and the Law is available for purchase from Amazon.com please use this link to order. (druglibrary.net)
  • President Joe Biden signed 17 executive orders (EO) on his first day in the White House. (cbc-network.org)
  • For all his talk about our needing to follow the science, Biden fails his own standard by conflating gender and sex. (cbc-network.org)
  • Ross said that President Joe Biden has prioritized efforts to bridge the data divide since his first day in office, when his administration released an executive order on advancing racial equity and support for underserved communities that included the establishment of an Equitable Data Working Group. (nextgov.com)
  • David Cumming, of Intelligent Earth, says, "It examines a number of facial characteristics to determine what sex someone is, so the more classically feminine a woman looks, then the quicker it will decide what sex they are. (unknowncountry.com)
  • Since Argentina embraced same-sex marriage a decade ago, the recognition of marriage equality has gained momentum, with 29 countries now on board. (hrw.org)
  • It is a socially constructed way to categorize the way people perform their sex through fashion, mannerisms, and activities. (cbc-network.org)
  • In order to support the community, it's important to be educated about the people within it. (csrwire.com)
  • In the western culture we tend to associate people with being masculine or feminine and if we cross over the boundaries set up for our sex then we are going against the norm. (ostatic.com)
  • More and more people accept premarital sex, according to recent data . (thegirlcanwrite.net)
  • This one-size-fits-all rate results in charging young and healthy people higher premiums than their expected medical expenses would otherwise justify in order to subsidize rates for middle-aged, older, and less-healthy people. (heartland.org)
  • ABSTRACT Determining what people know and believe about periodontal health and disease is important in order to establish prevention practices. (who.int)
  • Testosterone, the primary male sex hormone, is manufactured in the testes under the influence of luteinizing hormone (LH) in amounts of 2.5-11 mg/day. (medscape.com)
  • The purpose of this Bulletin is to identify areas for focusing future prevention efforts in order to further improve worker safety in Alaska. (cdc.gov)
  • The law on crime prevention establishes a separate definition of domestic violence and provides for implementation of protective orders, which are from three to 30 days in duration. (state.gov)
  • Spatiotemporal characteristics of VCT clients can help assess service accessibility and guide targeted prevention planning. (cdc.gov)
  • More general data collection efforts, which have interviewed both men and women, have indicated important differences in fertility behaviors and attitudes across the sexes. (cdc.gov)
  • Sex is the material reality of male or female. (cbc-network.org)
  • When so much of the social structure is based around a clear-cut distinction between male and female, anything that obscures the distinction is viewed as a problem and sometimes even as a threat to the established order. (al-bab.com)
  • Female sex, university education and higher economic status were significantly associated with a higher mean score on periodontal health knowledge. (who.int)
  • Many countries now legally recognize sex reassignments by permitting a change of legal gender on an individual's birth certificate. (wikipedia.org)
  • Prohibited Steps Order (PSO) - a PSO can restrict a parent's right and responsibility to take decisions on a range of matters relating to a child. (dmhstallard.com)
  • We associate any other feelings as being a feminine characteristic. (ostatic.com)
  • Contact us if you need reasonable accommodation because of a disability in order to apply for a position. (mathworks.com)
  • The quota permitted an unequal split by sex (up to 70% women) because in the United Kingdom, food preparation at home is more commonly performed by women than men. (cdc.gov)
  • Women are stereotyped into this box as being helpless, frail beings that need assistance in life in order to live. (ostatic.com)
  • Women are viewed as being the lesser sex.From birth men are surrounded by masculine images. (ostatic.com)
  • This is an issue because historically pension scheme benefits commonly built up on a different basis depending on the member's sex. (lexology.com)
  • Once the birth record is altered they can be issued with a new birth certificate and identity document, and are considered "for all purposes" to be of the new sex. (wikipedia.org)
  • Patients' social habits should be evaluated in order to properly educate them on the seriousness of any of risk factors in which they participate. (rdhmag.com)
  • A characteristic of this tendency is to project negative, undesirable and threatening aspects of the social order onto an aberrant other. (hrw.org)
  • The contradictions produced by the social construction of the sexes, especially through culture and ideology, oblige us to identify by sex, marked by power or lack of it 7 . (bvsalud.org)
  • Through exogamy men "continuously circulated their most important assets, their wives and daughters" in order to strengthen alliances or attain superiority over another social group. (lu.se)
  • Characteristics of a patient such as age, sex, ethnic background, and occupation should be evaluated and considered in the assessment. (rdhmag.com)
  • Data about the physician and their practice characteristics are collected during a survey induction interview. (cdc.gov)
  • Policymakers need to do a better job of identifying disparities in available datasets in order to develop more equitable policies and practices, the U.S. chief data scientist said during a webinar on addressing the data divide that was held by the Center for Data Innovation on Tuesday. (nextgov.com)
  • A first step to promoting equity in government action is to gather the data necessary to inform that effort," the order said. (nextgov.com)
  • This Juristat article uses data from the Integrated Criminal Court Survey to examine the characteristics of cases and charges completed in adult criminal and youth courts in Canada. (gc.ca)
  • The court will need to consider a potential risk to the child and issue an order which reflect this. (dmhstallard.com)
  • We released a clinician page that is dedicated for healthcare providers to review the evidence that we have looked at and described in order to learn a bit about the risk associated with underlying medical conditions. (cdc.gov)
  • It may be that you are applying for an order that a child lives with you and spends time with the other parent (perhaps supervised or supported by someone else if there are safeguarding concerns), that a child lives with both parents, or in extreme cases, that a child has no direct and/or indirect contact with the other parent - although this is rare. (dmhstallard.com)
  • In Argentina, as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Francis supported same-sex unions in a private meeting at a time when the extension of marriage seemed inevitable. (hrw.org)
  • Sometimes, foreigners imagine Georgia as a country with strict rules toward sex and intimacy between a couple before marriage. (thegirlcanwrite.net)
  • The efforts of the European education authorities to address the problem must be stepped up in order to create safe environment for children and prevent negative impact on students' health and achievements. (coe.int)
  • Pure community rating (CR) laws require health insurance companies to charge the same premium to everyone, regardless of age, sex, health history, lifestyle choices, and regional demographics. (heartland.org)
  • The government continued to issue protective orders mandating the separation of victims and abusers and provided temporary accommodations for the duration of the orders. (state.gov)
  • The law requires authorities to provide victims and abusers with temporary accommodation until the protective orders expire. (state.gov)
  • According to a number of women's rights NGOs, protective orders and crisis rooms remained ineffective and provided limited protection of victims' rights. (state.gov)
  • In some cases, the order could contain protective measures to ensure the child is safeguarded. (dmhstallard.com)
  • Police issued 1,903 protective orders from January-March. (state.gov)
  • There is no requirement for someone to have undergone medical procedures in order to benefit from the protection. (lexology.com)
  • pseudohermaphroditism , a condition in which the individual has a single chromosomal and gonadal sex but combines features of both sexes in the external genitalia , causing doubt as to the true sex. (britannica.com)
  • In general, the goal of altering an AAS is to increase its anabolic characteristics and to decrease its androgenic features, thus multiplying the compound's desirable, anabolic, nitrogen-sparing effects and minimizing its generally undesirable, androgenic, virilizing effects. (medscape.com)
  • Testosterone is the principle hormone in humans that produces male secondary sex characteristics ( androgenic ) and is an important hormone in maintaining adequate nitrogen balance, thus aiding in tissue healing and the maintenance of muscle mass (anabolic). (medscape.com)
  • Pope Francis's support for same-sex civil unions, extracted from a 2019 interview and recently broadcast, has reverberated around the world. (hrw.org)
  • Findings are compared with physical assault outcomes where appropriate in order to provide an analytical reference point. (gc.ca)
  • REF A number of states have also considered or enacted legislation making it easier for minors to access cross-sex interventions without their parents' knowledge or consent. (heritage.org)