Intersexed_People

Intersexed People Introduction To better understand intersexuality a couple of items should be made more clear first. An intersexual is a person who has genitalia that is different from what has been established as being “normal”. The terms intersexual or middlesex are often times either mistaken or synonymous with the term hermaphrodite. Advocates of raising awareness for intersexuality prefer not use this term for they believe that it is misleading and is inaccurate in what it implies an intersexed person to be. A hermaphrodite is mistakenly assumed to be an individual who has both male and female genitalia and is capable of reproducing by themselves. There are no known cases of this and the term hermaphrodite has been modified into true hermaphrodite. Even this modification is believed to be negative and restrictive both for intersexed people and in raising social awareness about the issue of intersexuality. The definition of true hermaphrodite is “individuals who have both ovarian and testicular tissue in their bodies and their external genitals are often a mixture of male and female structures” according to (Crooks and Baur, 1999. p.50). Individuals that would be considered to be true hermaphrodites are rare intersexed, people, surgery, been, one, chase, cah, female, born, medical, hormones, common, child, ais, research, person, intersexuality, genitals, doctors, clitoris, about, women, surgeries, should, male, hypospadias, conditions, both, being, very, society, performed, out, lot, individuals