Like all individuals, intersex people have various gender identities. Most identify as either a woman or man, while some may identify as a gender that does not fall in the binary. Some intersex individuals may be raised as a woman or man but then identify with another or no gender identity later in life.

 

Intersex in relation to Transgender: The term transgender describes the condition in which one's gender identity does not match one's assigned sex. Some individuals may identify as both intersex and transgender, but the two terms are not synonymous.

 

Transgender is an umbrella term for persons (unlike intersex) whose gender identity, expression and behavior do not match the typically associated sex that they were classified as. Gender identity refers to the internal notion of the gender a person identifies as, for example, being a man, woman or non-binary. Gender expression refers to the nature in which a person communicates their gender, for example a male may present femininely.

 

 

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Characteristics

Intersex describes variations in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, or genitals "that do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies" Such variations may involve genital ambiguity, and combinations of chromosomal genotype and sexual phenotype other than XY-male and XX-female.

What is Intersex?