How to pronounce“intersex”in English
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"Intersex refers to people who are born with any range of sex characteristics that may not fit doctor's notions of binary male
or female bodies. Variations may appear in a person's chromosomes, genitals, or internal organs like testes or ovaries.
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Definitions of “intersex”
Of an individual, having any of a variety of inherent conditions (in a species with distinct sexes) in which one's sex characteristics differ from those of a typical male and female; for example, having sex characteristics relating to both male and female sexes.
“His confidentiality was broken, and soon the entire staff and residential population were aware that Jim was intersex. […] we faced the fact that most programs were gender segregated and would not be a safe place for Jim to be known as intersex.”
The condition of being intersex; intersexuality.
“A Canadian believes that he has solved the diagnostic problem in human intersex. All human cells, says Dr. Murray L. Barr of the University of Western Ontario, contain something called sex chromatin.”
An individual with any of these conditions.
“Goldschmidt and others who have thought of the homosexual individual as an intersex have relied upon incidence figures which were pure guesses and which, as the data in the present chapter will show, bear little relation to the fact....”
To make intersex.
“The point is significant in light of current political issues surrounding real intersexed individuals. [...] It is clearly the case that physical intersexing and psychological androgyny do not conform to sex and gender norms in society. [...]”
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