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[–]anonymale[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

She also tries to claim that girls with CAH only act in a masculine fashion because they get mistaken for boys at an early stage... This is just wrong. Virtually all of them are spotted at birth.

I'm pressed for time so will just say that her treatment of the research on foetal androgens and children with CAH seems much more nuanced than the way you present it here. She writes in ch. 11 of DoG:

In short, we just don’t know what’s going on.

With regard to detection of CAH in girls, she writes, contrary to your claim about her writing:

Usually the condition is detected at birth.