Today, Good Morning America profiled Eden Atwood, a singer and actress with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. In general, it’s a sensitive portrait (aside from the screen caption “She’s a girl…or a boy?”) in which she discusses some of the pain that resulted from how her clinicians and parents responded to her condition. A priceless moment is when the interviewer is talking to physician Charmian Quigley. As she is describing the typical anatomy of a woman with complete AIS, the camera cuts back to the interviewer and you could see her confusion, “Huh? How does that work?”AIS is one of the conditions raised when people talk about some of the problems with sex testing at the Olympics (or more generally) because there is no one physical trait that makes us male or female. This was a promo for Medical Mysteries, also on ABC, that airs tonight. You can watch a clip of Medical Mysteries here.
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