Talk:Intersex

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Justification of missionality: right-wing/conservative views on various issues (e.g. gender relations, transgenderism, etc.) assume that male and female are clearly distinct. The existence of intersex people undermines that assumption of gender essentialism. There is no one single feature that makes a person female or male (despite the overly simplistic assumption of many that sex can be defined in terms of what chromosomes one has). In biological terms, female and male exist on a continuum, even though the vast majority of individuals exist clearly at one end or the other, and only a small minority occupy intermediate positions. The question of sex/gender is not always decidable; at the extremes of the continuum the correct answer is clear; there are places in the middle where the question is essentially undecidable and arbitrary. Zack Martin HolyMaratreanSigil.png 11:02, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

What you wrote above would be a good addition to work into the article. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 16:08, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

[edit] WTF?

Hermaphroditism and Hermaphrodite redirects here, which is rather troubling because those refers to (occasionally) simultaneous possession of both genitalia and should give a clue/shut up the creationists about which gender appears first. If the template is Biology as opposed to gender, perhaps that should be what to focus on. K61824"6+18=24" 02:28, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

These are different things. I've deleted the redirects.--ZooGuard (talk) 09:26, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
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