does not physiologically belong.

At puberty, when the ovaries or the testes begin to produce large amounts of female or male hormones, the secondary sex charac- teristics begin to develop. In the female the breasts enlarge, the fat deposits on the hips and elsewhere take on a typically feminine appearance, and the menses begin. In the male, the beard begins to grow, the voice deepens, hair grows in the pubic area in the charac- teristic male pattern and the individual's testes begin to manufac- ture sperm and he becomes capable of adult sex activity.

Modern medical science has found that the world of the inter- sex is not limited to the psychological and anatomical fields only but goes right down to the level of the chromosomes. It has been determined that most females have a special body present in their cells called "sex chromatin" which is not present in adult males. It is further known that the normal chromosome number is 46 and that the normal male has an X and a Y chromosome while the female has 2X 8. However, recent research has turned up a whole new var- iety of chromosomal intersexes in which the number of chromosomes may be something greater than 46 and in which the sex combinations may be XXY, YYX or even XXXY. When these sex aberations are added to the fact that hormones may so affect the development of the child under certain circumstances that "he" actually develops a fem- inine body (or the reverse), it is obvious that "male and female" are becoming statistical terms only and not the fixed terms they were once thought to be. The law and the legal profession will one day be faced with having to decide the sex of the person or at least the sex he wishes to present to society on the basis of the person's own personal preference simply for lack of clear cut distinctions, th When sex and gender with it can be influenced and determined by the. interaction of anatomy, chromosomes, hormones and the psychosocial t forces of upbringing, all kinds of combinations are possible and the rules cannot be imposed just on the basis of what the majority are like. That will be the day, as the man said, for FPs.

Now what of the administration of hormones to the adult person? When large amounts of the hormones of the opposite sex are adminias tered, or when they are manufactured in the body due to some pathoa logical condition, masculinization of the female or feminization of the male results. These are the outwardly visible signs, such as the growth of breasts in the male and of a beard in the female. But inwardly,non visible results take place too. Both sexes pro-

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