Studies provide evidence for the masculinization of the brain have however not been conducted to date.

However, postwar masculinization of women's clothing became associated with lesbians.

Too much androgen, for example, would cause masculinization and could result in infertility.

There are several studies suggesting that bisexuals have a high degree of masculinization.

This may be due to masculinization of the brain via prenatal hormones.

A sufficient amount of any androgen can cause external masculinization.

Occurrences of masculinization and estrogen suppression were observed as a result.

There is an external masculinization of the genitalia in the female fetuses.

Presumably the masculinization of the brain shapes some neural circuit that makes women desirable.

Education now, on my world, is oriented toward the masculinization of women and the feminization of men.

I tried increasing self stimulation, hoping that would trigger masculinization, but all it did was cause pain.

Gender reassignment is usually preceded by a period of feminization or masculinization.

The main function of this is to prevent the masculinization of female fetuses.

The neurobiology of the masculinization of the brain is fairly well understood.

The masculinization of change creates interesting gender roles within the Mande world.

Defeminization and masculinization are the processes that a fetus goes through to become a male.

The early fixation hypothesis includes research into prenatal development and the environmental factors that control masculinization of the brain.

In other words, viewed from opposite direction, the person goes through defeminization but fails to complete masculinization.

Masculinization of social institutions is of course not necessarily displayed as overt sexism or discrimination.

It has been speculated that "brain masculinization" is occurring since no significant changes have been identified in other parts of the body.

In this context masculinization is synonymous with virilization.

Masculinization of women and hypermasculinization of men has been a central theme in sexual orientation research.

On the other hand, having Y chromosome polysomy has other effects than masculinization.

Furthermore, the reversed effects of feminization and masculinization can lead to a reversed sexual preference.

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia is a disorder that affects one in 15,000 births world wide, with varying degrees of masculinisation.

Vandana Shiva, 1995, Monocultures, Monopolies and the Masculinisation of Knowledge.

Dichorionic twins potentially have different hormonal environments because they receive maternal blood from separate placenta, and this could result in different levels of brain masculinisation.

Experiments on animals have shown that Depo causes feminisation of male fetuses and masculinisation of female fetuses in the same litter.

The authors also claim that the media and criminal justice system play an important role in controlling women through the masculinisation and demonization of a few women.

Masculinisation, Militarisation, and the End Conscription Campaign: War Resistance in Apartheid South Africa.

Successive male fetuses are then attacked by H-Y antibodies which somehow decrease the ability of H-Y antigens to perform their usual function in brain masculinisation.

The accumulation of texts, however, is rather pointless since the observations are always the same: an increase in the 'masculinisation' of the rural population and no improvement in the status of spouses assisting with agricultural operations.

They are preceded in the testis by a population of 'fetal'-type Leydig cells from the 8th to the 20th week of gestation, which produce enough testosterone for masculinisation of a male fetus.

As a woman and a doctor, however, I should like to protest most strongly in this House against the tendency to treat women as objects, to subject women to aggressive masculinisation and to use the phrase 'reproductive health' to refer to motherhood.

The researchers believe that exposure of pregnant women to bisphenol A may be one of the causes of congenital masculinisation defects of the hypospadia and cryptorchidism types the frequency of which has doubled overall in the past 40 years.

The different grade of genital ambiguity is commonly measured by the Prader classification ranging, in ascending order of masculinisation, from 1: Female external genitalia with clitoromegaly through 5: Pseudo-Phallus looking like normal male external genitalia.

It can also be associated with progestin-induced virilisation.

However, the adverse effects of prenatal virilisation are all too well known and prevention is of enormous benefit to the individual concerned.

Gonadectomy for cancer risk and virilisation.

The clinical manifestations are highly variable, ranging from partial virilisation and ambiguous genitalia at birth, to patients with a completely male or female gonads.

Female athletes, including adolescents, experienced virilisation symptoms and possibly as many as 1,000 sportsmen and women suffered serious and lasting physical and psychological damage"."

These potent androgens can cause ambiguous genitalia in newborn females, virilisation in older females and precocious puberty in males.

In 1927 a colleague at Charing Cross Hospital, the neurologist Gordon Holmes, received a fifteen-year-old female patient experiencing virilisation.

DHEAS may also be slightly elevated in patients with polycystic ovaries, supporting an adrenal component to the virilisation seen in this condition.

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See virilization for a more detailed description of the normal process and newborn status.

More often, the virilization is partial and the genitalia are ambiguous.

Presence of this gene starts off the process of virilization.

Most of the changes of virilization are produced by androgens.

Stages 2 and 3 represent progressively more severe degrees of virilization.

Families typically wish to minimize the degree of virilization of a girl.

In children, side effects may include virilization symptoms.

Boys with non-salt-wasting disease present later with signs of virilization.

Some of the possible causes of virilization in women are:

So did hip-to-waist ratio and two measures of virilization.

The main function of this is to prevent the virilization of female fetuses.

Virilization of genetic females is partial, often mild, and rarely raises assignment questions.

When virilization is complete and unambiguous, reassignment may be declined or deferred.

Because the virilization originates metabolically, masculinizing effects continue after birth.

No additional testosterone is given during childhood, to avoid unwanted virilization and bone maturation.

Other common symptoms include hirsutism, abdominal pain, virilization, and an adnexal mass.

Collectively, these symptoms are described as virilization.

Male infants are severely virilization and are usually assigned and raised as girls.

In this context, masculinization is synonymous with virilization.

He also devised the eponymous Prader scale, used to describe genital virilization.

It has been successfully used as a breast cancer drug, but because of the high risk of virilization, safer options are prescribed.

Since steroids generally cause virilization effects in women in even small doses, this drug should not be taken by women.

Some of those with partial virilization develop gynecomastia at puberty even though masculinization is reduced.

Virilization can occur in childhood in either boys or girls due to excessive amounts of androgens.