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"I think we have very inadequate definitions of what sex is," says Katie. "But based on what we do have I can't say that I'm either male or female in terms of my sex, although my gender identity is very female." Dr Devore would also like to see the definitions of sex widened. "The tyranny of being forced to circle M or F (male or female) on every form I fill out, I'd like to see that change, I'd like to have a lot more options. "Typically what I do is I circle the whole thing so it is 'MORF', M or F - that is my favourite way of responding to that question. androgen insensitivity syndrome I look female on the outside, I have a normal female body but instead of having XX chromosomes like a typical female I have XY chromosomes like a typical male."

er mother and father, who are both doctors, had been trained at medical school not to tell women if they had this condition "because it would be so devastating to them that they would commit suicide". But Katie's parents broke the mould and did tell her some of the details of the condition to prepare her. Katie was 18 when they told her the full details, which changed her world. "I was really scared. I was not prepared to think about myself as totally and irreversibly different to every other woman. I wondered if I would ever be loved, if I was so different I couldn't be loved," she says. Her testes were removed and she takes pills to give her more appropriate hormones. 800m World Champion Caster Semenya was forced to undergo gender testing to prove she was a woman "It can be very confusing and isolating for families and what worries me the most is an early feeling of shame starts to develop, as this has to do with genitalia, and we don't talk about that. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14459843...