intersex
Collocations
5ADJ.
against, all, alone, binary, bisexual, empirical, gay, individual
VERB + INTERSEX
ignoring, mutilating, pass, requires, saying
INTERSEX + NOUN
babies, cells, children, condition, human, lgbtiq, males, people
PREP.
about, in, in, on, out, upon, with
ADV.
regularly
Definitions
adj
Of an individual, having any of a variety of inherent conditions (in a species with distinct sexes) in which one's sex characteristics differ from those of a typical male and female; for example, having sex characteristics relating to both
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 person who can get pregnant and also impregnate someone else.
noun
The condition of being intersex; intersexuality.
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.
An individual with any of these conditions.
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 […]
verb
To make intersex.
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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noun — one having both male and female sexual characteristics and o
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6His 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
WiktionaryWhen I had learned that I was intersex, I brought this issue to my mother.
WiktionaryA 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 h
WiktionaryA 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.
WiktionaryA 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.
WiktionaryGoldschmidt 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,
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