Semenya would also have an ultrasound to see if she has all the normal female reproductive organs.

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He is legally male but kept his female reproductive organs and bore children because his wife was infertile.

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But fessing up to what happened over the last 30 years is a necessary precursor to repudiation of the conservative tyranny over female sex organs that has been shamelessly promulgated.

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Mr Gordon said Mr Beatie, 39, was legally married as a man and never was required to disclose that he retained female reproductive organs when applying for the birth certificate in Hawaii as a man.

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In traditional plant breeding, some inbred maize plants destined to be crossed with others have their male, pollen-producing tassels cut off to prevent self-fertilisation (maize is a horticultural hermaphrodite, carrying both male and female sex organs).

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Goodfellow and his ICRF colleagues figured that if they could understand what decided whether a person grew male or female sexual organs--the most fundamental of developmental decisions--they might better understand the erroneous decisions made by cells at the start of cancer.

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The procedures are being carried out by consultant urological surgeon Mr Ghulam Nabi who specialises in keyhole surgery for diseases of the male and female urinary tract and the male reproductive organs.

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's healthy genital tissue and radically restructure his reproductive organs in order to make his body appear to be female.

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