It is appropriate to ask for the preferred name and pronouns. Being intersex has to do with sexual characteristics at birth. Intersex people are born, beyond the surgeries to which a person is subjected. It does not have to do with an identity: a person can be intersexual without ever expressing it to anyone; you can even live a lifetime and die without knowing that you were born intersexual. Being a subject that is still under heavy medical scrutiny, being intersexual is mistakenly thought to be synonymous with pathology, disease.
I do not intend to give an exhaustive definition here about being intersexuals, or about what intersexuality means. I could list a series of syndromes and characteristics typically associated with intersexuality from the medical institution, but it is not the best way to approach the subject.
The way in which intersexuality is viewed from the perspective of who does not depend on their conception of the body, sexuality and gender identity of the human being. Like many other things, it is a matter of social expectations. In this case, and as far as our time is concerned, these are expectations based on medical assessments dating back to the 19th century.
But also the medical gaze is evolving. It can be anticipated that social expectation will also change over time, although it will be slow, like any social process. What is more important: it is not about pathologies or physical defects; There is no medical basis to support these beliefs. Being intersexual is not a health problem.
In any case, it is a problem of what society expects from the process of sexual differentiation. And as such, it must be resolved in society and with society, not through unnecessary, irreversible and non-consensual surgical interventions or medical treatments, practised on a person who, due to his tender age, has no ability to defend himself or to intervene your will about it. Intersexuality is a term that is generally used for a variety of body situations, in which a person is born with sexual characteristics genitalia, gonads, hormone levels, chromosomal patterns that does not seem to fit the typical definitions of male or female.
Thus, in people with intersex variations, innate sexual characteristics appear to be male and female at the same time, or not entirely male or female, or neither male nor female. Sometimes, a person does not discover that they have intersexual anatomy, until puberty when the expected body changes for a typical woman or man do not occur. If we define intersexuality basically as a variation in shapes and body composition, we can affirm that intersex itself is not a pathology and is definitely not a malformation, because genital forms depend on testosterone during pregnancy, all fetuses whether XX or XY at some point in gestation have the same genital shapes.
Obviously, nothing has been formed badly, but part of a natural process that depends on testosterone levels, just that. But it does happen that these bodily variations can be associated with conditions that require specific medical attention due, for example, to metabolic imbalances, which have nothing to do with diverse sexual characteristics.
In fact, any of the bodily forms, whether they are typically feminine, masculine, or any of the various variations in sexual characteristics, according to their anatomy, have a certain tendency towards health complications. Therefore, having a typically female, male, or intersex physicality does not immediately lead to disease or health conditions.
Intersexuality is a natural variation in human beings. A gendered assumption in our culture is that someone assigned female at birth will identify as a woman and that all women were assigned female at birth.
Some people assigned male at birth identify as women, some people assigned female identify as men, and some people identify as neither women nor men.
This illustrates the difference between, gender assignment , which doctors place on infants and fetuses based on the appearance of genitalia, and gender identity, which one discerns about oneself. For example, trans women, women whose bodies were assigned male and who identify as women, show us that not all women are born with female-assigned bodies. The fact that trans people exist contests the biological determinist argument that biological sex predicts gender identity.
Transgender people may or may not have surgeries or hormone therapies to change their physical bodies, but in many cases they experience a change in their social gender identities. Some people who do not identify as men or women may identify as non-binary , gender fluid , or genderqueer, for example. The existence of sex variations fundamentally challenges the notion of a binary biological sex.
Intersex describes variation in sex characteristics, such as chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones, or genitals. There are a number of specific biological sex variations. For example, having one Y and more than one X chromosome is called Kleinfelter Syndrome. Does the presence of more than one X mean that the XXY person is female?
Intergender people can have any gender expression or sexual orientation. Intergender is different from Ipso gender which is intersex people agreeing with the sex they were assigned at birth. Gender Wiki Explore. Popular pages. About Us Community Policies Administration.
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