Citations:intersex

adjective

 * 2007, DNA and Cell Biology, volume 26, issues 7–12:
 * Arguably, such individuals are not female, but rather intersex. Some characteristics associated with Turner syndrome, like not menstruating, are more "male" than "female." However, individuals with Turner syndrome have no penis, [...]
 * 2010, Patricia Gherovici, Please select your gender: from the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism, page 78:
 * [...] question of whether those patients were actually homosexual or, rather, intersex.
 * 2021, Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam, Arcadia, Seven Stories Press (ISBN 9781644210543)
 * I should have said that I involved Daniel in my research right from the start, despite, or perhaps because of, the fact that he is just as intersex as I am.

comparative and superlative forms

 * 2013, Eva Moser, A Matter of Life - When Gender Doesn't Work (ISBN 9780557013913), page 107:
 * This doesn't make me any more or any less intersex than everybody else out there with any of these other conditions, ...
 * 2016, Viola Amato, Intersex Narratives: Shifts in the Representation of Intersex Lives in North American Literature and Popular Culture, transcript Verlag (ISBN 9783839434192), page 122
 * Her use of the phrase "if I was intersex fully" (emphasis added) suggests that there exists some scale of being intersex that some people are more intersex than others, and that the rate of intersex authenticity is measurable by some norm.
 * 2016, Viola Amato, Intersex Narratives: Shifts in the Representation of Intersex Lives in North American Literature and Popular Culture (ISBN 9783839434192), page 123:
 * Hillman sums up her experience of telling her intersex story in the following way: “What happened that day was that I began to claim may experience as an intersex person, no matter how awkward or imperfect it might be. Soon, I'd come to know that that awkwardness, that feeling that there was some way to be that I couldn't quite attain, was one of the most intersex things about me.”


 * two references to Holmes
 * 2012, Donald E. Hall, Annamarie Jagose, The Routledge Queer Studies Reader (ISBN 9781135719517):
 * For these reasons, one might even conclude that genital surgery makes bodies more intersex than they started out, as Holmes brilliantly puts it. Certainly genital surgery can render strange anatomies that would otherwise have passed without comment.
 * 2016, Lena Eckert, Intersexualization: The Clinic and the Colony (ISBN 9781317274117), page 97:
 * Intersex activist and scholar Morgan Holmes analogically argues that genital surgery makes bodies more intersex than they started out (2002).

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 * 2006, Alice Domurate Dreger, “Intersex and Human Rights: The Long View”, in Sharon E. Sytsma (editor), Ethics and Intersex, Springer, ISBN 978-1-4020-4313-0, page 81:
 * If you would not obfuscate the medical history of a person who was born without intersex, then you ought not to do so when dealing with a person born intersex.


 * 2007, Catherine Harper, Intersex, Berg (ISBN 9781845201838), page 129:
 * The British Association of Paediatric Surgeons Statement (2001) indicated that among the range of intersex conditions that particularly present with genital ambiguity are 'true hermaphroditism' and gonadal dysgenesis.
 * 2008, Emine Saner, The Guardian, 30 Jul 2008, G2, page 12:
 * It is thought that around one in 1,000 babies are born with an "intersex" condition, the general term for people with chromosomal abnormalities.