Meaning of intersex | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The condition of being intersex; intersexuality.
   uncountable
2. An individual with any of these conditions.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“A much more common condition caused by early exposure of fish larvae to oestrogenic substances is intersex, which in males usually takes the form of ovotestis.”

“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....”

“Conversely, a fertilized egg with one X-chromosome would develop not into a male but into an intersex […]”

“Pseudo-hermaphrodites or other intersexes are not to be confused with transsexualists; transvestites may be transsexualists, but not necessarily.”

“Genital surgery on intersexes has been performed for about a century”

“An intersex, then, is an animal that shows both male and female characteristics.”

“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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