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A person can exhibit both traits that were rendered exclusive to "girl". [[Anne Fausto-Sterling]] suggests a classification of 23 sexes and a move away from the socially constructed gender binary classification of male and female. In her paper "The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough", she discusses the existence of intersex people, individuals possessing a combination of male and female sexual characteristics, who are seen as deviations from the norm and who frequently undergo coercive surgery at a very young age in order to maintain the two-gender system. The existence of these individuals challenges the standards of gender binaries and put into question society's role in constructing gender.<ref name="Drowninginlimbo">{{cite book | author = Morgan Holmes | title = Intersex: A Perilous Difference |
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| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=YYTnmY2EelUC&dq | accessdate = 29 April 2014 | date = 2008 | publisher = Associated University Presse | isbn = 978-1-575-91117-5 | pages = 17}}</ref> Fausto-Sterling indicates that modern practitioners encourage the idea that gender is a [[cultural construct]] and concludes that, "we are moving from an era of sexual dimorphism to one of variety beyond the number 2."<ref>{{cite book|last=Fausto-Sterling|first=Anne|authorlink=Anne Fausto-Sterling|title=The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough|journal=The Sciences|date=March–April 1993|pages=20–24}}</ref> |
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- GenderQueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary (Alyson), (Joan Nestle, Clair Howell Co-Editors) 2002 ISBN 1-55583-730-1
- "Pregnant males and pseudopenises: complex sex in the animal kingdom". Ars Technica.
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