somebody whose beliefs and actions display interphobia; actions or beliefs that are hostile or discriminatory towards intersex people/people with intersex variations.

the acts and attitudes of ignoring, removing or falsifying intersex people and people with intersex variations and their identity. In its most extreme form, it could be the belief that intersex identity is non-existent, and that people with intersex variations are biological dysfunctions that need “correcting” and “normalising” (e.g. through “corrective surgery“). Intersex erasure has […]

the wide variety of characteristics, predominantly physical, but also behavioural, which provide indicators of one’s biological sex. Endosex individuals have sex characteristics typical of either males or females, whereas intersex individuals (that is, people with intersex variations) may have any number of sex characteristics which may not be identifiable as “typical” for males and females, […]

medical terminology for the wide variety of intersex variations, although the terminology is fast becoming questioned and debated as inappropriate, particularly as it may suggest something that needs ‘correcting’ (such as through corrective surgery).

an alternate term for interphobia, that is, the range of negative attitudes, intolerance and resentment towards intersex people and people with intersex variations.

Interphobia describes the range of negative attitudes, intolerance, and resentment towards intersex people, and intersex variations: this may lead to and include intersex erasure and the practice known as “corrective surgery” performed on infants to “normalise” intersex bodies. Somebody who possesses such beliefs and attitudes can be described as interphobic (or intersexphobic). Alternate: intersexphobia

simply put, consent is the act of giving permission, voluntarily, to the proposals or desires of another human being. A primary example of consent is the permission given between two or more individuals to engage in physically intimate behaviour with each other. Without consent, such acts are rape. Both legally, and morally, consent can be […]

a term typically used by medical practitioners to describe the genitals of intersex infants whose genitalia do not appear as ‘typically’ either male or female. Such an example would be genitalia that are not “completely developed”, or display characteristics of both male and female anatomies. Considered a “disorder of sex development” in medical terminology. People […]

an acronym for sex coercively assigned at birth.