Intersex – TGmeds

This is a general term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with chromosomal, hormonal, and/or anatomical attributes that do not fit the “typical” definitions for female or male. Many intersex people are surgically “corrected” in infancy, and some grow up to feel like they have had an essential part of themselves taken away without their consent.
A reproductive or sexual anatomy that does not closely resemble typical male or female reproductive or sexual anatomy, which may be related to genitalia, secondary sex characteristics, and/or chromosomal make-up; DSD replaced the outdated terms ‘hermaphrodite’; see also ‘disorders of sex development’; DSD is different from trans.