Intergender vs. Intersex

Intergenderadjective

Taking place between people of opposite genders.

Intergenderadjective

Being midway between male and female.

Intergendernoun

A person whose gender identity is midway between male and female.

Intersexnoun

Any of a variety of inherent conditions (in a dioecious species) whereby an individual has sex characteristics which differ from those of a typical male and female; for example, the state of having physical features relating to both male and female sexes; intersexuality.

Intersexnoun

An individual with any of these conditions.

Intersexadjective

(of an individual) Having an intersex condition.

Intersexverb

(nonstandard) To make intersex.

Intersexnoun

one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made

Intersex

Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, . Though the range of atypical sex characteristics may be obvious from birth through the presence of physically ambiguous genitalia, in other instances, atypical characteristics may go unnoticed, presenting as ambiguous internal reproductive organs or atypical chromosomes that may remain unknown to an individual all of their life.Sex assignment at birth usually aligns with a child's anatomical sex and phenotype.