Gender & Sexual Diversity Education Resources: Intersex (between forms)

"To answer this question in an uncontroversial way, you’d have to first get everyone to agree on what counts as intersex —and also to agree on what should count as strictly male or strictly female. That’s hard to do. How small does a penis have to be before it counts as intersex? Do you count “sex chromosome” anomalies as intersex if there’s no apparent external sexual ambiguity?" Includes: List of types of Intersex conditions.

"Intersex is a group of conditions where there is a discrepancy between the external genitals and the internal genitals (the testes and ovaries). The older term for this condition is hermaphroditism. Although the older terms are still included in this article for reference, they have been replaced by most experts, patients and families. Increasingly, this group of conditions is being called disorders of sex development (DSDs)."

"...1 in 1500 to 1 in 2000 births. [0.5 of 1000] But a lot more people than that are born with subtler forms of sex anatomy variations, some of which won’t show up until later in life."

"In approximately one out of every 100 births [10 of 1000] , seemingly tiny errors occur during the various stages of fetal sex differentiation, causing a baby's body to develop abnormally. "