Category: Intersex NOT Hermaphrodite
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Researching Intersex For My Protagonist
Intersex. Non-binary biology. DSD (Differences in Sexual Development). This condition used to be known as “hermaphrodite,” a term that today is considered neither technically accurate nor socially acceptable. The more I find out about it the more I understand why. I chose to give my protagonist intersex biology. Why? For one, it puts them on…
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Should Parents Choose Intersex Gender?
According to an excellent Daily Beast article on intersex children and gender choice, “Even as transgender rights progress, intersex children are still left in legal limbo.” Here’s the crux of this piece, which deals with should parents choose the gender of their intersex children: ‘…left out of all this good news are intersex infants and…
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An Intersex vs. Hermaphrodite Naming Tiff
MY IGNORANT ERROR I logged into Twitter recently for the first time in a while, and learned that I had committed an intersex vs. hermaphrodite naming faux pas. A few weeks ago someone in the intersex community had @replied to me. This person, an intersex advocate, reasonably pointed out that I had added her name to my…