Intersex people are born with genitals, chromosomes, or internal reproductive organs that don't fit typical male or female patterns and may not match their sex assigned at birth. Most intersex people have a male or female gender identity and are heterosexual. People who are intersex have reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t fit into an exclusively male or female (binary) sex classification
On Intersex Awareness Day, we celebrate trans and intersex solidarity
Intersex traits might be apparent when a person’s born, but they might not appear until later (during puberty or even adulthood).
You might think that people can be born only as either males or females
In fact, lots of people are born with a blend of male and female traits We call this being “intersex,” and it happens more often than you may think. Intersex is an older term for differences of sex development (dsd) Dsd refers to physical attributes that are not clearly male or female.
Intersex is an umbrella term for people born with biological sex characteristics, such as genitals, reproductive organs, hormones, or chromosomes, that don't fit typical male or female definitions. Intersex is a general term used for a variety of situations in which a person is born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t fit the boxes of “female” or “male.” Intersex is a general term used to refer to individuals born with, or who develop naturally in puberty, biological sex characteristics which are not typically male or female. Intersex refers to the experiences of people who are born with a body that does not fit within the normative social construct of male and female
Intersex is not about sexual orientation or gender identity