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intersexual
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in·ter·sex·u·al (ntr-sksh-l)
adj.
Having both male and female characteristics, including in varying degrees reproductive organs and secondary sexual characteristics, as a result of an abnormality of the sex chromosomes or a hormonal imbalance during embryogenesis.
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She describes the "trouble" with intersexuality to be social and not biological, and advocates turning from medicalization to acceptance of intersexuals as complete, viable and beautiful humans.
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Of course, transsexuals and intersexuals resolve the ontological conundrum of being both sexes by changing gender rather than living life as two simultaneous identities.
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[8] With these nascent notions of a social dimension to maleness and femaleness, both doctors and scientists writing about intersexuals and transsexuals and scholars and activists writing about women directly challenged earlier essentialist notions of sex, in which, as Meyerowitz describes it, sex signified not only female and male, but also traits, attitudes, and behaviors associated with women and men [.
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