Editing Intersex

{{personal story|quote=Being intersex heavily affects my perception of gender. My natural born self is very [[gnc]] (d cups & big beard), and being [[nonbinary]]/[[genderfluid]] has helped me accept myself as I am.|ref=<ref>2021 Gender Census.</ref>}}
[[File:Intersex flag.svg|thumb|In 2013, the Organisation Intersex International Australia created this intersex pride flag. The circle symbolizes wholeness, and the colors are meant to not be derivatives of pink (female) or blue (male).<ref>{{cite web|date=5 July 2013|url=http://oii.org.au/22773/an-intersex-flag/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119034012/https://oii.org.au/22773/an-intersex-flag/|archive-date=19 January 2018|title=An intersex flag|last=Carpenter|first=Morgan|website=Organisation Intersex International Australia}}</ref>]]
'''Intersex''' people are people born with any variation in [[sex]] characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones, or genitals that do not fit the typical definitions of male or female bodies.<ref>[https://unfe.org/system/unfe-65-Intersex_Factsheet_ENGLISH.pdf "Free & Equal Campaign Fact Sheet: Intersex"] (PDF). United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2016. [https://web.archive.org/web/20230627091022/https://www.unfe.org/system/unfe-65-intersex_factsheet_english.pdf Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

An intersex person may have any [[gender identity]]. They may agree with their assigned gender; in this case, they would be described as either [[ipsogender]] or [[cisgender]], although the usage of the term ''cisgender'' is controversial with regard to intersex people.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://hidaviloria.com/caught-in-the-gender-binary-blind-spot-intersex-erasure-in-cisgender-rhetoric/ |title= Caught in the Gender Binary Blind Spot: Intersex Erasure in Cisgender Rhetoric |last= Viloria |first= Hida |authorlink=Hida Viloria |date= 18 August 2014 |website= hidaviloria.com |access-date= 19 May 2021 |quote= "As an intersex person with a natal “body/identity match”, I too fall into this gender binary blind spot. I noticed it the minute I announced, at the aforementioned New Year’s Eve party, “So I guess I would be cisgender then, because I was born intersex and I feel intersex.” Some people seemed bothered by my statement, because it troubles the intended use of the term cisgender, and specifically “cisgender privilege”."|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230213090625/http://hidaviloria.com/caught-in-the-gender-binary-blind-spot-intersex-erasure-in-cisgender-rhetoric/ |archive-date= 17 July 2023 }}</ref> They may think of themselves as [[transgender]], [[genderqueer]], [[nonbinary]], etc. An intersex person who feels that their intersex status has influenced their gender identity may identify as [[intergender]] or [[amalgagender]]. Some intersex people think of their intersex status as belonging to the broader range of [[LGBTIQAP]] identities.

Not everyone who identifies as [[Nonbinary gender|nonbinary]] is necessarily intersex, and instead may be ''dyadic'' (not intersex). Other common terms for "not intersex" are ''perisex''<ref name="Lanquist">{{Cite web |title=Definitions |author=Lanquist, L.A. |work=Trans Narrative |date= |access-date=19 June 2020 |url= https://lalanquist.com/definitions/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321143000/https://lalanquist.com/definitions/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref name="themeaningofbi">{{Cite web |title=What tf is perisex |author= |work=Correcting Bisexuality Definitions One at a Time |date=17 July 2016 |access-date=19 June 2020 |url= https://themeaningofbisexuality.tumblr.com/post/147553978486/what-tf-is-perisex|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918160541/https://themeaningofbisexuality.tumblr.com/post/147553978486/what-tf-is-perisex |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> and ''endosex''.<ref name="ihra_What">{{Cite web |title=What is intersex? |work=Intersex Human Rights Australia |date=2 August 2013 |access-date=19 June 2020 |url= https://ihra.org.au/18106/what-is-intersex/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230304091433/https://ihra.org.au/18106/what-is-intersex/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref name="anun_Biol">{{Cite web |title=Biological and Anatomical Sex: Endosex, Intersex & Altersex |author=Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez |work= |date=12 December 2019 |access-date=19 June 2020 |url= https://anunnakiray.com/2019/12/12/biological-and-anatomical-sex-endosex-intersex-altersex/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213103039/https://anunnakiray.com/2019/12/12/biological-and-anatomical-sex-endosex-intersex-altersex/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

Intersex was one of the 56 genders made available on Facebook in 2014.<ref>Eve Shapiro, ''Gender circuits: Bodies and identities in a technological age.'' Unpaged.</ref>

== Dyadism ==
Dyadism is a common kind of [[sexism]], the belief that humans are strictly ''[[dyadic]],'' having only two sexes. In action, dyadism is discrimination against intersex people. That discrimination can include erasure, harassment, medical malpractice, lack of marriage rights, religious intolerance, human rights violations, and hate crimes against intersex people. Dyadism is also the basis of other forms of sexism, including [[binarism]], the belief that people have only two genders.

Because of dyadism, doctors think of intersex conditions as an irregularity. As a result in many parts of the world, intersex people are still given so-called "normalizing" or "corrective" surgeries, often at a very young age, and without their consent.<ref name="ihra_What">{{Cite web |title=What is intersex? |work=Intersex Human Rights Australia |date=2 August 2013 |access-date=19 June 2020 |url= https://ihra.org.au/18106/what-is-intersex/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230304091433/https://ihra.org.au/18106/what-is-intersex/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

==Notable people==

[[File:Seven Graham.jpg|thumb|[[Seven Graham]].]]
Some notable people who were born intersex and define their gender outside the Western [[gender binary]] include: 

* Canadian writer and filmmaker [[Alec Butler]] (b. 1959) says they/he<ref name="bbc2016">{{Cite web |title=At 12 I grew a beard and had a period |author=Butler, Alec |work=BBC News |date=22 April 2016 |access-date=14 June 2020 |url= https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36092431|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230105150021/https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36092431 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> is [[two-spirit]], intersex, and nonbinary.<ref name="Helkio">{{Cite web |title=Alec Butler's “Rough Paradise” – Living Life Shamelessly |last=Helkio |first=Raymond |work=theBUZZ |date= |access-date=14 June 2020 |url= https://thebuzzmag.ca/2017/01/alec-butlers-rough-paradise-living-life-shamelessly/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230208033010/https://thebuzzmag.ca/2017/01/alec-butlers-rough-paradise-living-life-shamelessly/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
* American visual artist and musician [[Florian-Ayala Fauna]] ([[she/her]]<ref name="Fauna_About">{{Cite web |title=About |author=Florian-Ayala Fauna |work=florian-93.com |date= |access-date=14 November 2020 |url= https://www.florian-93.com/about|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322090336/https://www.florian-93.com/about |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>) is an intersex person identifying as [[transfeminine|trans-femme]]<ref name="Fauna_About" />, [[androgyne]], and partially [[woman]].<ref name="Faunatweet">{{cite tweet|user=bloodfawn93|number=963276096430108672|last=Fauna|first=Florian-Ayala|title=Hey I'm Florian - I'm a visual artist, musician, writer, and occult practitioner of a Thelemic/Crowley based nature. #VisibleWomen (woman part is partially true tho, more androgyne and proud to be intersex :3 ) http://florian-93.com https://uncertain.bandcamp.com|date=February 12, 2018}}</ref>
* Salvadoran-American filmmaker, actor, model [[River Gallo]] says they<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/rivergallo/ River Gallo's Instagram bio] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230603035030/https://www.instagram.com/rivergallo Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>https://www.rivergallo.com/about [https://web.archive.org/web/20230705084129/https://www.rivergallo.com/about Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> are [[genderqueer]]<ref name="mtv._Meet">{{Cite web |title=Meet River Gallo, The GLAAD Award-Winning Trailblazer Fusing Activism And Art |work=MTV News |date=28 March 2019 |access-date=29 March 2020 |url= http://www.mtv.com/news/3118699/river-gallo-interview-ponyboi-glaad-awards-grant-2019/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206090823/https://www.mtv.com/news/3118699/river-gallo-interview-ponyboi-glaad-awards-grant-2019/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> and [[genderfluid]].<ref name="salty">{{Cite web |title=What I Learned Being Out as Intersex on Dating Apps |author=Gallo, River |work=Salty |date=21 February 2019 |access-date=1 May 2020 |url= https://www.saltyworld.net/what-i-learned-by-coming-out-as-intersex-on-hookup-apps/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604120635/https://saltyworld.net/what-i-learned-by-coming-out-as-intersex-on-hookup-apps/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
* British comedian, counsellor, and playwright [[Seven Graham]] (b. 1969) is [[transmasc]]<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/angelsareintersex/ Seven Graham's Instagram bio] as of 25 August 2020 [https://web.archive.org/web/20220222004637/https://www.instagram.com/angelsareintersex/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> and [[nonbinary]].<ref>{{cite tweet|user=AddictionExpert|author=Graham, Seven|number=1172570846293921792|title=@GrenvilleAndrew @marumatchboxuk @marumatchbox I’m a part of @bbcglobalminds and ? some questionnaires let me specify 3rd gender - #intersex #nonbinary. Others just give ‘prefer not to say’ #annoying! Also ?s your deal with @BBC. @BBCNews Some surveys just harvest unrelated data|date=13 September 2019}}</ref>
* [[Hans Lindahl]], Communications Director at interAct, an intersex advocacy group,<ref name="Karabaic">{{Cite web |title=The Cost of Being Intersex ft. Hans Lindahl |author=Karabaic, Lillian |work=Oh My Dollar! |date=10 July 2019 |access-date=1 May 2020 |url= https://www.ohmydollar.com/2019/07/10/the-cost-of-being-intersex-ft-hans-lindahl/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205170430/https://www.ohmydollar.com/2019/07/10/the-cost-of-being-intersex-ft-hans-lindahl/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> is trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer.<ref>{{cite tweet|user=hiHelloHans|number=1143204820318162944|title=Just realized that of LGBTQIA, I am 5/7: -Bi -Trans (umbrella: nonbinary/genderqueer) -Queer -Intersex -Asexual (umbrella: demi) can my prize be being left alone|date=June 24, 2019}}</ref>
* Indian activist [[Gopi Shankar Madurai]] (b. 1991), founder of Srishti Madurai, a student collective for gender and sexual minorities.<ref name="APCOM">{{Cite web |title=Breaking the Intersex Silence in South Asia: An interview with Gopi Shankar |author= |work=APCOM |date= |access-date=10 August 2020 |url= https://www.apcom.org/breaking-the-intersex-silence-in-south-asia-an-interview-with-gopi-shankar/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127071016/https://www.apcom.org/breaking-the-intersex-silence-in-south-asia-an-interview-with-gopi-shankar/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> says [[English neutral pronouns#Ze|ze]]<ref name="Pareek">{{Cite web |title=At 19, Ze Came out of the Closet. Today, Ze Is Helping the LGBTQIA Community Live with Dignity. |last=Pareek |first=Shreya |work=The Better India |date=27 November 2015 |access-date=10 August 2020 |url= https://www.thebetterindia.com/39178/gopi-shankar-lgbtqia-rights-srishti-madurai/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321182954/https://www.thebetterindia.com/39178/gopi-shankar-lgbtqia-rights-srishti-madurai/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> is [[nonbinary]] and [[genderqueer]].<ref name="Nair">{{Cite web |title=Start with education system for change, says intersex activist |trans-title= |last=Nair |first=Shalini |work=The Indian Express |date=6 June 2019 |access-date=10 August 2020 |url= https://indianexpress.com/article/india/start-with-education-system-for-change-says-intersex-activist-5767432/ |language=English|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203172935/https://indianexpress.com/article/india/start-with-education-system-for-change-says-intersex-activist-5767432/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
* New Zealander [[Mani Bruce Mitchell]] (b. 1953), founder of the Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand (ITANZ), describes themself<ref name="ilga-bio">{{Cite web |title=Mani Bruce Mitchell |author= |work=ILGA |date= |access-date=1 May 2020 |url= https://ilga.org/mani-bruce-mitchell|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130110514/https://ilga.org/mani-bruce-mitchell|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> as intersex and nonbinary.<ref name="ilga-meets">{{Cite web |title=ILGA meets… Mani Bruce Mitchell, intersex human rights defender |author=Paletta, Daniele |work=ILGA |date=26 October 2018 |access-date=1 May 2020 |url= https://ilga.org/ilga-meets-mani-bruce-mitchell-intersex-human-rights-defender|quote=my sense of self consolidated, very early on, though we had no words back then I saw myself as non-binary, as queer, as intersex.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230208062841/https://ilga.org/ilga-meets-mani-bruce-mitchell-intersex-human-rights-defender |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
* American activist [[Jim Sinclair]] (b. 1940), one of the founders of Autism Network International (ANI)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web| url = https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5488463| title = Autism Movement Seeks Acceptance, Not Cures| last = Shapiro| first = Joseph| date = 26 June 2006| work = NPR| access-date = 29 February 2016}}</ref>, is intersex and was subjected as a child to [[conversion therapy]] in attempts to make them conform to their [[assigned gender]]. In 1997 Jim wrote that they were "proudly [[neuter]], both physically and socially."<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207013228/http:/web.syr.edu:80/~jisincla/brief_bio.htm|url=http://web.syr.edu/~jisincla/brief_bio.htm|archive-date=7 February 2009|title=Self-introduction to the Intersex Society of North America|last=Sinclair|first=Jim|date=1997}}</ref>
* Hungarian writer, psycholinguist, editor, poet, and translator [[Bogi Takács]] (b. 1983) is an [[agender]] intersex person.<ref name="bogi_Why">{{Cite web |title=Why “women + nonbinary” is not a good idea |author=Takács, Bogi |authorlink=Bogi Takács |work=Bogi Reads the World |date=2 September 2018 |access-date=13 November 2020 |url= http://www.bogireadstheworld.com/why-women-nonbinary-is-not-a-good-idea/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307020938/http://www.bogireadstheworld.com/why-women-nonbinary-is-not-a-good-idea |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
* Latinx American writer [[Hida Viloria]] (b. 1968), author of ''Born Both: An Intersex Life,'' says s/he<ref name="Pham">{{Cite web |title=Intersex Activist and Writer Hida Viloria on Being 'Born Both' |last=Pham |first=Larissa |work=Rolling Stone |date=20 March 2017 |access-date=26 April 2020 |url= https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/intersex-activist-and-writer-hida-viloria-on-being-born-both-123818/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230506191540/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/intersex-activist-and-writer-hida-viloria-on-being-born-both-123818/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> is [[genderfluid]].<ref name="Viloria2017">{{Cite web |title=If You Claim To Be Sex Positive, Then You Need To Be Intersex Positive |last=Viloria |first=Hida |work=HuffPost |date=7 April 2017 |access-date=25 April 2020 |url= https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sex-positive-intersex-positive_b_58e6d8d7e4b0acd784ca56cd |quote=As I write about in my memoir Born Both: An Intersex Life, I'm intersex and gender-fluid (meaning my gender identity and expression changes) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230318211101/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sex-positive-intersex-positive_b_58e6d8d7e4b0acd784ca56cd |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
* American writer [[Gigi Raven Wilbur]] (b. 1955), one of the creators of Celebrate Bisexuality Day, is intersex and underwent nonconsensual surgery and masculinizing [[Hormone therapy|hormone]] treatments as a child.<ref name="Genderful">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltqQ2CIj1FU |title=Genderful E50: Sacred Harlotry with Ladyboy Gigi (they/them) 05.02.2022 |date=May 2022|author=GenderMeowster|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220510214105/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltqQ2CIj1FU|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Wang">{{Cite web |title=Gigi Raven Wilbur: Advice on Bisexuality and Intersexism |author=Alexandra Wang |work=interviews |date=4 August 2018 |access-date=10 April 2020 |url= https://howcanibeofservice.wordpress.com/2018/08/22/gigi-raven-wilbur-advice-on-bisexuality-and-intersexism/|archive-url=False |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> Some of the words they have called themself include "hermaphrodite", "[[third gender]]", "[[ladyboy]]", and "sheman".<ref name="Genderful" /><ref name="Scott-Dixon2006">{{cite book|last=Scott-Dixon|first=Krista|title=Trans/forming Feminisms: Trans/feminist Voices Speak Out|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4bPqAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA65|year=2006|publisher=Canadian Scholars' Press|isbn=9781894549615|pages=65–71|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509192724/https://books.google.com/books?id=4bPqAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA65|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Funk">{{Cite web |title=Interview with Gigi Raven Wilbur |author=Mason Funk |work=OUTWORDS |date=1 June 2017 |archive-date=21 January 2021 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20210121105023/https://theoutwordsarchive.org/subjectdetail/gigi-raven-wilbur |url= https://theoutwordsarchive.org/subjectdetail/gigi-raven-wilbur}}</ref><ref name="2015bio">[http://web.archive.org/web/20150402134257/http://myravenslair.com/gigi.html Website bio], archived 2 April 2015</ref><ref name="newbio">[https://www.ravenslairleather.com/gigibio Current website bio] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230406020721/https://www.ravenslairleather.com/gigibio Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

==Intersex-exclusive identities==

Many intersex people are binary men or women, but some intersex people have a [[nonbinary]] gender. Certain nonbinary genders have been coined with the intent that only intersex people can identify as them:

* [[Amalgagender]]: A gender that is affected by, or mixed into one's intersex identity.<ref name="intermisogyny">{{Cite web |title=Amalgagender |author= |work=intermisogyny |date=11 August 2015 |url= http://intermisogyny.tumblr.com/post/126478036199/amalgagender|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150903012733/http://intermisogyny.tumblr.com:80/post/126478036199/amalgagender|archive-date=3 September 2015}}</ref>
* Duogender: One's gender is a combination of male and female as a result of being intersex.<ref name="Duogender">{{Cite web |title=Duogender Pride Flag |author=Kau |work=Beyond MOGAI Pride Flags |date=31 May 2018 |access-date=4 December 2020 |url= https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/174448665010/duogender-pride-flag|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518061352/https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/174448665010/duogender-pride-flag |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

Additionally, some people feel that [[intergender]] (a gender identity that is between the binary genders of female and male, and may be a mix of both) should only be used by intersex people. See the [[intergender]] page for more details.
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==See also==
* [[Dyadic]]
* [[InterNon]]
* [[Ipsogender]]

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== References ==
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== External resources ==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20211028052315/https://bodieslikeours.org/ Bodies Like Ours: Intersex Information and Peer Support]

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