Intersex

Intersex people are born with any of several variations in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones, or genitals that, according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit the typical definitions for male or female bodies". Such variations may involve genital ambiguity, and combinations of chromosomal genotype and sexual phenotype other than XY-male and XX-female.

Intersex people were previously referred to as hermaphrodites, "congenital eunuchs", or congenitally "frigid". Such terms have fallen out of favor; in particular, the term "hermaphro ...more

Intersex Books

None of the Above: A Powerful LGBTQIA+ YA Story of Intersex Teen Identity and Self-Acceptance

Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience

XOXY, A Memoir: Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist

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Quotes Tagged “Intersex”

“ Oh! To live alone, always alone, in the midst of the crowd that surrounds me, without a word of love ever coming to gladden my soul, without a friendly hand reaching out to me! ”
― Herculine Barbin, Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite

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“ [John] Money spent the rest of his childhood in a predominantly female household in consistent poverty. His childhood instilled in him a dislike of religious dogma and sexual prudery as well as a deep class-consciousness alongside his ambition to transcend his meager beginning, Science would become his religion. ”
― Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea

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