Androgen insensitivity syndrome: Difference between revisions

 

Recording artist Dalea is a Hispanic-American Activist who is public about her CAIS. She has given interviews about her condition<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://vadamagazine.com/entertainment/arts/challenging-perspectives-interview-dalea|title=Challenging Perspectives: Interview Dalea|last=Carter|first=Sophia | name-list-style = vanc |date=31 May 2014|publisher=Vada Magazine|access-date=23 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/q-and-a/a30357/what-its-really-like-to-be-intersex/|title=What It's Really Like to be Intersex|last=Peikoff|first=Kira | name-list-style = vanc |date=22 August 2014|website=Cosmopolitan|access-date=23 January 2017}}</ref> and founded Girl Comet, a non-profit diversity awareness and inspiration initiative.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.daleamusic.com/girl-comet.html|title=All about 'Girl Comet'|website=Dalea Music |language=en|access-date=2017-01-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225151547/http://www.daleamusic.com/girl-comet.html|archive-date=2016-12-25|url-status=dead}}</ref>

 

In the 1991 Japanese horror novel [[Ring (Suzuki novel)|''Ring'']], by [[Koji Suzuki (writer)|Koji Suzuki]] (later adapted into Japanese, Korean, and American films), the central antagonist [[Sadako Yamamura|Sadako]] has this syndrome.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

 

In series 8, episode 5 of ''[[Call the Midwife]]'', a woman discovers that she has AIS. She attends a [[cervical smear]] and brings up that she has never had a period, and is concerned about having children as she is about to be married. She is then diagnosed with "testicular feminisation syndrome", the old term for AIS.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-02-10/call-the-midwife-what-is-testicular-feminisation-syndrome/|title=Call the Midwife: What is Testicular Feminisation Syndrome?|website=Radio Times|language=en|access-date=2019-02-11}}</ref>

 

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