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The new approaches to understanding and treating intersexed individuals that have been proposed recently are based on the concept of five sexes, which include all of the following EXCEPT
 
  a. herms..
 b. merms and ferms..
  c. males and females.
 d. andros and estros..

Question 2

According to research on gender dysphoria,
 
  a. a biological predisposition contributes approximately 60 percent to the cause.
 b. environment and genetics contribute equally to the cause. a biological predisposition contributes approximately 60 percent to the cause.
  c. it cannot be determined, as yet, regarding the extent of the genetic and environmental contributions to the cause.
  d. there is a specific set of genes that seem to contribute most to the cause.

Question 3

The incidence of gender dysphoria resulting in a rejection of natal sex is
 
  a. very low, with far less than 1 percent of the general population.
 b. very low, with approximately 1.5 percent of the general population.
 c. moderately low, with approximately 1 to 5 percent of the general population.
  d. moderately high, in approximately half of those with gender dysphoria.

Question 4

Of the following, the individual who would most likely be diagnosed with gender dysphoria is
 
  a. Joe, who gets sexually aroused by wearing women's bras.
 b. Lisa, who is a lesbian and has many traditional masculine traits.
 c. Mark, who feels like a woman trapped in a man's body.
 d. Sid, who can only become sexually aroused while dressed like a woman.

Question 5

Gender dysphoria dysphoria is diagnosed when
 
  a. a person's physical sex is inconsistent with the person's sense of who he or she really is.
 b. an individual receives sexual pleasure from cross-dressing.
 c. an individual is born with ambiguous genitalia.
 d. all of these are correct.

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