OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 49270

intersex

/ˈɪn.tə.sɛks/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
intersexual
Of an individual, having any of a variety of inherent conditions (in a species with distinct sexes) in which one's sex characteristics differ from those of a typical male and female; for example, having sex characteristics relating to both male and female sexes.
His confidentiality was broken, and soon the entire staff and residential population were aware that Jim was intersex. […] we faced the fact that most programs were gender segregat…
When I had learned that I was intersex, I brought this issue to my mother.
Word forms
No hay formas
📚 noun • entry_id 49271

intersex

/ˈɪn.tə.sɛks/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
intersexual
An individual with any of these conditions.
Conversely, a fertilized egg with one X-chromosome would develop not into a male but into an intersex […]
Goldschmidt and others who have thought of the homosexual individual as an intersex have relied upon incidence figures which were pure guesses and which, as the data in the present…
Phrases
No hay frases
Word forms