NOUN
- one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
How To Use intersex In A Sentence
- Two years prior the first and only long-term follow up study of reassigned intersexual children at John Hopkins had been done by Dr. Bill Reiner, a former pediatric urologist turned child psychologist.
- As my comment made abundantly clear, in some contexts, consideration of sexual preference is a factor of "ability to do the job" rather than of "prejudice or bigotry" assuming, arguendo, that we accept the concept of "intersexed" - which I take it is a euphemism for "transgendered" rather than hermaphrodite. Get ready for the government to look at you with X-ray eyes.
- The activist blog uniting the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersexual, asexual community & straight allies in the fight for equality! Archive 2009-04-01
- We also invite intersex perspectives on controversial topics and issues such as sexuality, religion, politics and other issues.
- You also continue to ignore the fact that God himself creates intersexed people on a regular basis. The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause
- Inform and educate in order to combat unwarranted shame, secrecy, ignorance, prejudice, and discrimination associated with intersexual conditions.
- This pattern is consistent with either intersexual or intrasexual selection and warrants further investigation.
- In some species such sexual dimorphism occurs year-round and might be explained by intersexual differences in foraging, dominance or habitat use.
- Third, identifying conditions that lead to maximal male investment in a single mating may contribute to our understanding of the resolution of intersexual conflicts over mating investment.
- I presented a paper in 2005, with Dr. Milton Diamond, to Dr. Zucker and a host of other experts at the International Behavioral Development Symposium, showing that exposure to DES (diethylstilbestrol) in utero was strongly linked to the onset of the intersexed condition called transsexualism. Letters to the Editor