Vir­ginia (Gin­nie) Isaacs Cov­er holds a Mas­ter of Social Work, focus­ing her career on chil­dren and adults with devel­op­men­tal dis­abil­i­ties. She has exper­tise in X and Y chro­mo­some vari­a­tions, includ­ing Kline­fel­ter syn­drome, the genet­ic con­di­tion por­trayed in Sup­ple­men­tal Needs. She pre­vi­ous­ly pub­lished a wide­ly read guide for these con­di­tions. Her writ­ing inter­ests include con­tem­po­rary Amer­i­can Judaism, inter­mar­riage, dis­abil­i­ty, and sexuality.