intersex
pronunciation
How to pronounce intersex in British English:
UK [ˈɪntəseks]
How to pronounce intersex in American English:
US [ˈɪntərseks]
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- Noun:
- one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
Word Origin
- intersex (n.)
- "one having characteristics of both sexes," 1917, from German intersexe (1915); see inter- + sex. Coined by German-born U.S. geneticist Richard Benedict Goldschmidt (1878-1958). Related: Intersexual; intersexuality.
Example
- 1. When I was 25 I found out suddenly that I am an intersex xy woman .
- 2. Cloning and characterization of carp intersex gene .
- 3. They teach people how to create a intersex ha !
- 4. One of the few judicial decisions to deal explicitly with intersex conditions came in 1999 from the constitutional court of colombia .
- 5. They may be intersex people or men who take on feminine identities , sometimes after castration .