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. People who are intersex have reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t fit into an exclusively male or female (binary) sex classification Intersex traits might be apparent when a person’s born, but they might not appear until later (during puberty or even adulthood). What does an intersex person look like at birth The answer is more complicated than you may think — but the question itself may be the wrong one to ask. 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 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 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.
An intersex individual may identify with a gender not associated with their sex assigned at birth, in which case they would be both intersex and transgender (“understanding intersex”).
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