Meaning of endosex | Babel Free

Definitions

Not intersex; born with sex characteristics that are considered typically male or female.

neologism, not-comparable

Examples

“Intersex as an ostentation of the endosex group phantasy.”

“DOING ENDOSEX Alongside increased attention to and debate⟳ about sexual and gender diversity, more equitable social relations require⟳ serious attention to the ways social authorities do or construct the sex categories that provide⟳ the basis for doing gender and sexualities. Although many endosex people—regardless of gender or sexuality identity—treat⟳ sex as something people possess⟳ as a straightforward categorization of genital shape⟳ and appearance, these beliefs rely⟳ upon a simplification of biological diversity that negatively impacts […] intersex people.”

“Scholars refer⟳ to those people who “fit neatly” into these male/female exclusive categorizations as endosex. Endosex people are assigned male or female, and often think⟳ very little about this assignment—or the possibility that it was incorrect in any biologically empirical way—throughout their lives unless something unexpected forces them to consider⟳ it.”

“[S]ocial authorities generally design⟳ and disseminate selective versions of science, religion, and media that emphasize some elements of social life (e.g., cis experience⟳, hetero- and monosexuality, upper=class experience⟳, endosex [i.e., non-intersex] categorization and downplay or otherwise erase other aspects of social life (e.g., Blackness or other non-white racial experience⟳, trans experience⟳, […]”

“A second pathway may be found in recent work⟳ published on the ways endosex (i.e., those assigned male or female by society) people respond⟳ to the existence of intersex people (Sumerau and Cragun, 2018).”

“Kubick also did not specifically include⟳ intersex people in the class of those seeking X gender markers, writing in her opinion that because the only Orr v. Trump plaintiffs seeking X gender markers were endosex nonbinary people, it was “not clear that non-binary class representatives could fully represent⟳ the interests of intersex class members.””

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