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"Intersex" in a Sentence (22 examples)
I'm intersex.
To claim sex is binary requires ignoring intersex people, which is unscientific and purely ideological.
Intersex people have reproductive organs, genitals, and hormones that do not fit the usual female and male characteristics.
Intersex children are the only children receiving gender reassignment surgery, and the right supports it in their case, unlike the left.
There are more intersex people in the world than there are Jewish people.
Most bans on gender-affirming care explicitly carve out exceptions for the only actual child genital mutilation going on, that against intersex babies.
In its more extreme variants, cis ideology can include denial of the empirical reality of intersex and transgender people.
Rima has an intersex condition.
In a crowd of a thousand people, one will be intersex. If you live in a city, you pass by intersex people regularly.
Mutilating intersex babies is something almost every transphobe supports.
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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.
When I had learned that I was intersex, I brought this issue to my mother.
A survey of 1100 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people by Griffith and Bond University researchers found that the overwhelming majority had been victims of targeted harassment as well as physical and sexual abuse.
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.”
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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