XXX

From having three X chromosomes (and no Y), or as a clipping of XXX syndrome.

/ˈtɹɪpəlˈʔɛks/


hermaphrodite

From Hermaphroditus, the mythical son of Hermes and Aphrodite, who merged bodies with a naiad, thereafter having both male and female qualities.

deledash

organism having both male and female gonads

An earthworm is a hermaphrodite.

(biology) Cosexual: an organism possessing both types of gonads; a flower possessing both stamens and pistils.

Comb jellies are sequential hermaphrodites.

(biology) Dichogamous: an organism which begins its life as one sex and changes its sex over its life cycle.

armoured fighting vehicle
armoured fighting vehicle

(World War I military, historical) An armoured fighting vehicle having features of both male tanks and female tanks.


hermaphroditic

Of or pertaining to hermaphrodism; being a hermaphrodite.


androgyny

en-noun

androgyny (usually uncountable, plural androgynies)

/ænˈdɹɑd͡ʒəni/


hermaphroditism

hermaphroditism (countable and uncountable, plural hermaphroditisms)

(biology) Being able to reproduce as both male and female, either simultaneously (simultaneous hermaphroditism or cosexuality) or sequentially (sequantial hermaphroditism or dichogamy).

hermafroditisme

state of having both male and female sexual organs


androgynous

en-adj

androgynous (comparative more androgynous, superlative most androgynous)

more androgynous (comparative)
most androgynous (superlative)

From Latin androgynus (“man-woman, hermaphrodite”), from Ancient Greek ἀνδρόγῠνος (andrógunos), from ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”) + γῠνή (gunḗ, “woman”) + -ος (-os, “-ous”, adjectival suffix).

af

<i class="Latn mention" lang="en">-ous</i>

Possessing the sex organs of both sexes.

Nicknames like Pat, Sam, and Chris are androgynous, used by both men and women.

And I was taught that to be an actress, one should be fashionable, and to be fashionable is to be androgynous. And I am androgynous not less than David Bowie himself.

1982, Slava Tsukerman, Anne Carlisle, Nina V. Kerova, Liquid Sky, spoken by Margaret (Anne Carlisle):

My name is androgynous, in pronunciation at least – Lauren sounds like the more masculine Loren.

1993, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 199:

Pertaining to a feature or characteristic that is not definitively of either sex.

andróxinu

pertaining to a characteristic that is not definitively of either sex

The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous.

1832 September 1, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Great Minds Androgynous—Philosopher’s Ordinary Language”, in H[enry] N[elson] C[oleridge], editor, Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge. […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], published 1835, →OCLC, page 96:

APAS is an androgynous docking system, so – in principle, at least – any APAS-equipped vehicle should be able to hook up with any other, without having to worry about matching male with female ports.

(of a connector or docking port) Able to connect to another connector or port of the same type, rather than being restricted to connecting to solely male or solely female connectors or ports.


sex reassignment surgery

en-noun

sex reassignment surgery (countable and uncountable, plural sex reassignment surgeries)

sex reassignment surgeries (plural)
SRS (abbreviation)

(transgender, sometimes proscribed) Surgical procedure that alters a person's sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender, particularly for transgender people, or to conform to societal standards for intersex people to present in a dyadic fashion, the latter often done without consent.

sukuelinten korjausleikkaus

surgical procedure that changes a person's sex characteristics so that they conform to a standard


Turner

en-proper noun

Turner (countable and uncountable, plural Turners)

From Middle English Turner, Turnur, Turnure, Turnour, from Middle English turner, turnare, tornere, an occupational surname for a turner or tumbler.

census-designated place
census-designated place

Androscoggin County
Androscoggin County#English

A number of places in the United States:

A town and census-designated place therein, in Androscoggin County, Maine.

A township and village therein, in Arenac County, Michigan.

An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia.


androgyne

From French androgyne, from Latin androgynus.

Billy looked up at the face that went with the clogs. It was the face of a blond angel, of a fifteen-year-old boy. The boy was as beautiful as Eve. Billy was helped to his feet by the lovely boy, by the heavenly androgyne.

1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five:

The yogi is in this way the androgyne of prehistory reachieved.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 33:


pseudohermaphroditism

en-noun

pseudohermaphroditism (countable and uncountable, plural pseudohermaphroditisms)

A condition in which an individual has the internal reproductive organs of one sex but the external genitalia of the other.

pseudohermafroditisme

having different internal and external sexual organs


intersexuality

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The state of having the physical features of both sexes, or of having ambiguous sex, i.e. not unambiguously male or female.

intersexualitate

the state of having physical features of both sexes


pseudohermaphrodite

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An individual that has the external genitalia of one sex, but the internal sex organs of the other.


pseudohermaphrodite

In the case described by Recasens himself of a pseudohermaphrodite woman there was a formation of testicular appearance on the labia majora; but its histological examination demonstrated that this was not a gonad, but a glandular mass of a nature which defied diagnosis.

1932, Gregorio Marañón, translated by Warre Bradley Wells, The Evolution of Sex and Intersexual Conditions, page 106:

The chief psychologic and psychiatric problems encountered in the adrenogenital syndrome are those associated with the sex orientation of untreated and undiagnosed pseudohermaphrodite women (33).

1966, Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, Endocrines and the Central Nervous System, page 431:

However, prostate cancer does not appear to occur in a cohort of pseudohermaphrodite men in whom 5-alpha reductase is absent.

1996, Roger S. Kirby, Timothy J. Christmas, Michael K. Brawer, Prostate Cancer, Mosby, →ISBN, page 27:

They form one group of the pseudohermaphrodite men mentioned above: their prostate glands remain in the pre-pubertal state, and never become cancerous.

2010, Tom Smith, Coping Successfully with Prostate Cancer, 2nd edition, Sheldon Press, →ISBN:

Having external genitalia of one sex, but the internal sex organs of the other.


intersex

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From German Intersexe; corresponding to inter- + sex. Doublet of intersect

His confidentiality was broken, and soon the entire staff and residential population were aware that Jim was intersex. […] we faced the fact that most programs were gender segregated and would not be a safe place for Jim to be known as intersex.

2006, Dean Spade, “Compliance Is Gendered: Struggling for Gender Self-Determination in a Hostile Economy”, in Paisley Currah et al., editors, Transgender Rights, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 225:

When I had learned that I was intersex, I brought this issue to my mother.

2010, Sean Saifa Wall, “I am the ‘I’”, in Kate Bornstein, S. Bear Bergman, editors, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 109:

A survey of 1100 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people by Griffith and Bond University researchers found that the overwhelming majority had been victims of targeted harassment as well as physical and sexual abuse.

Of an individual, having any of a variety of inherent conditions (in a species with distinct sexes) in which one's sex characteristics differ from those of a typical male and female; for example, having sex characteristics relating to both male and female sexes.


intersexed

(now uncommon and often offensive and proscribed) Intersex.


AIS

AIS (countable and uncountable, plural AISs or AISes or AIS's)

AISs (plural)
AISes (plural)
AIS's (plural)

/ˈeɪ ˈaɪ ˈɛs/

Australian Illawarra Shorthorn
w:en:Australian Illawarra Shorthorn

Initialism of Australian Illawarra Shorthorn (cattle breed).


Klinefelter syndrome

Named after Harry Klinefelter, who identified the condition in the 1940s.

A genetic condition in which a person is born with two X chromosomes and one Y chromosome.


Turner syndrome

Named after Henry Turner who first described the condition in 1938.

(medicine, medical genetics) A particular genetic condition, caused by partially or completely missing an X chromosome (monosomy), that leads to sterility and other issues.


ovotestis

(biology) A gonad with characteristics of both ovaries and testicles. Considered an intersex condition in humans and some other animals.


DSD

Defence Signals Directorate
w:Defence Signals Directorate

Initialism of Defence Signals Directorate: an Australian government intelligence agency responsible for signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information security (INFOSEC).


superfemale

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A female with an additional X chromosome in each cell (triple X syndrome).


XYY syndrome

An aneuploidy of the sex chromosomes in which a human male receives an extra Y chromosome, giving a total of 47 chromosomes instead of the usual 46; the condition is associated with learning difficulties and above-average height.


supermale

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GLBTI

Initialism of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender/transsexual and intersex. Alternative form of LGBTI


LGBTI

Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual and intersex.


tumtum

bor

Hebrew טומטום

Therefore, if a man died leaving a son and a tumtum or a hermaphrodyte, the son inherits everything, since the heirship of the tumtum or of the hermaphrodyte is doubtful.

1949 (printing), Maimonides, The Code of Maimonides: The Book of Civil Laws, p. 273

As it happens, the baraita in question speaks of the tumtum twice, introducing an apparent redundancy into the text. To be specific, Abbaye's solution, proposing an unusual interpretation of the first tumtum ("his testicles are evident from the outside"), allows for a different reading of tumtum in each of his two usages.

1996, David Charles Kraemer, Reading the Rabbis: the Talmud as Literature, page 122:

A tumtum and a hermaphrodite should not dress like a woman, but neither should they cut the hair on their head like a man.

2001, Ruth N. Sandberg, Development and Discontinuity in Jewish Law, page 100:

A. DEFINITION OF THE TERM The term tumtum, meaning ambiguous genitalia, is not found in Scripture.

2003, Avraham Steinberg, Fred Rosner, Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics, page 50:

(Judaism) One whose gender can not be determined by a physical examination; a person lacking external genitalia; an androgynous person; sometimes a hermaphrodite.


Hermaphroditus

From Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἑρμαφρόδιτος (Hermaphróditos, from Ἑρμῆς (Hermês) + Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē)).

Ἑρμαφρόδιτος

A male Aphrodite (Aphroditus), represented as a herm with a phallus, the symbol of fertility.


QUILTBAG

Coined by Sadie Lee as an inclusive self-designation for minority sexual and gender identities.

There’s a reason that people supporting marriage and fighting hardest for it are primarily middle class white gays and lesbians, because, for them, marriage may be the ‘final frontier,’ while other members of the QUILTBAG community are fighting with issues like ‘how to stay alive when your parents have kicked you out of the house for being gay’ and ‘how to get hormone treatments when you are an undocumented immigrant making less than minimum wage.’

2010 September 17, S. E. Smith, “Separate but equal is still unequal”, in This Ain’t Livin’, archived from the original on 2010-09-23:

And so not all queer writing is quiltbag, and neither is all quiltbag writing queer.

2011 February 15, Wendy Gay Pearson with Hollinger, Veronica and Gordon, Joan, Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction, Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 47:

I doubt that there's a lack of QUILTBAG gamers who want an inclusive experience, and who are still feeling the sting of other oversights BioWare has made to their personhood.

2011 March 28, Ouyang Dan, “The Games We Play: The Straight Male Gamer's Privilege”, in Bitch Magazine, retrieved 2012-05-22:

Over the past few decades, stories have slowly changed from being the kind where the author first explains how QUILTBAG people might come to exist and be acceptable (see Joanna Russ’s The Female Man, in which a group of women become lesbians because they’re stuck for centuries on a planet without men) to the kinds where we take it for granted that QUILTBAG people need no speculative explanation (see Elizabeth Bear’s Carnival, in which there’s a planet run by lesbians because some radical lesbian separatists—people who already exist in present day Earth culture—decided to start their own colony).

2012 March 6, Julia Rios, “Reaching into the QUILTBAG: the Evolving World of Queer Speculative Fiction”, in Apex Magazine, retrieved 2012-05-22:

Acronym of Queer/Questioning, Undecided, Intersex, Lesbian, Trans (Transgender/Transsexual), Bisexual, Asexual, and/or Gay/Genderqueer.


hermaphroditically

For nature hates that any principle should breed, so to speak, hermaphroditically, but will give to each an help meet for it which shall cross it and be the undoing of it; as in the case of descent with modification, of which the essence would appear to be that every offspring should resemble its parents, and yet, at the same time, that no offspring should resemble its parents.

1878, Samuel Butler, Life and Habit, Ballantyne, Hanson and Co., pages 28–29:

In normal sexual reproduction, whether performed by separate sexes or hermaphroditically, the two functions are generally combined in a pair.

1979, Adriano Zanetti, The World of Insects, Abbeville Press (1979), page 86

This cleft sentence in turn cleaves narrative genre: Baré's story, formerly an account of loyal masculine servitude, now proceeds as a feminine sentimental narrative, yet one in which she figures, hermaphroditically, as both distressed female and the masculine hero who rescues her.

2004, Vanessa Smith, “Costume Changes: Passing at Sea and on the Beach”, in Bernhard Klein, Gesa Mackenthun, editors, Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean, Routledge, →ISBN, page 40:


metafemale

(biology) A female with triple X syndrome.


triple X syndrome

learning disabilities
learning disability

A form of chromosomal variation characterized by the presence of an extra X chromosome in each cell of a human female, sometimes leading to tall stature, learning disabilities, and/or epicanthic folds.


pseudohermaphroditic

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A pseudohermaphroditic infant female rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) showing masculinization of the external genitalia as a result of exposure to testosterone propionate during foetal development.

2012, Alan F. Dixson, Primate Sexuality:

Relating to, or exhibiting, pseudohermaphroditism.


LGBTQIA

Anderson-Wiley (2011b) identifies a counselor-in-training who filed suit against the faculty (and university) after she was required to complete a remediation plan specifically related to LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer, intersex, and allies) populations prior to completing her clinical experiences.

2016, Teri Ann Sartor, Bill McHenry, Jim McHenry, Ethical and Legal Issues in Counseling Children and Adolescents:

Within the past year, Elon added several initiatives and programs for LGBTQ students and employees, including starting a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, and ally (LGBTQIA) mentor program […]

2017, Kathleen M. Goodman, Darnell Cole, Using Data-Informed Decision Making to Improve Student Affairs Practice:

Further evidence of diversity on campus might be found in Boise State support programs such as the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP), the Center for Multicultural and Educational Opportunities, the Disability Resource Center, and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Ally (LGBTQIA) space and events at the Women's Center.

2017, Management Association, Information Resources, Library Science and Administration: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications:

Many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA) youth now grow up in a very different religious context than did LGBTQIA people just a few years ago.

2017 September 4, Cody J. Sanders, A Brief Guide to Ministry with LGBTQIA Youth, Presbyterian Publishing Corp, →ISBN, page 1:

LGBTQIA Rights and Restrictions in Sub-Saharan Africa Except for a few countries, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual or allied (LGBTQIA) rights in Africa are minimal in comparison to many other countries[…]

2019 November 15, AnnJanette Alejano-Steele, Women and Health: Global Lives in Focus, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 126:

This chapter focuses on refugees/asylum seekers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer/questioning, intersex, and asexual/aromantic (hereafter noted as LGBTQIA).

2022 May 27, Tyler Ross Flockhart, Abigail Reiter, Matthew R. Hassett, The Reproduction and Maintenance of Inequalities in Interpersonal Relationships, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 157:

Sexual and gender minority (SGM) families (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, asexual, or allied [LGBTQIA]) may live together with or without children. Usually formed by same-sex couples, they can also consist of single LGBTQIA parents or multiple parenting figures.

2023 March 9, Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk, Mary Catherine Cashion, Kathryn Rhodes Alden, Ellen Olshansky, Shannon E. Perry, Maternity and Women's Health Care E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 18:

(LGBTQ) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, queer/questioning, intersex, and allied/allies/asexual/aromantic/agender.

إل جي بي تي كيو آي إيه

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Allied/Asexual/Aromantic/Agender

एलजीबीटीक्यूआईए

eljībīṭīkyūāīe


intersexually

en-adv

intersexually (comparative more intersexually, superlative most intersexually)

more intersexually (comparative)
most intersexually (superlative)


disorder of sex development

en-noun

disorder of sex development (plural disorders of sex development)

Recently, growing patient and parental concerns about the stigma associated with the term intersex, along with advances in treatment and diagnosis, have led to the adoption of the term disorders of sex development (DSD) in its place.

2008, Harvey J. Makadon (Ed.), The Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health, page 393:

There are also several states of disorders of sex development in males, namely gonadal dysgenesis or defects in androgen biosynthesis which cause insufficient synthesis of androgens and hypoandrogenisation in consequence.

2009, Konrad Janowski, Biopsychosocial Aspects of Health and Disease, volume 1, page 69:

Parents of children with these kinds of conditions — known as intersex conditions, or differences or disorders of sex development (DSDs) — often face difficult decisions about whether to bring up their child as a boy or a girl.

2015, Claire Ainsworth, ‘Sex redefined’, Nature, volume 518, number 7539:

A medical condition whereby the development of chromosomal or anatomical sex is in some way atypical; an intersex condition.


XXY

Having an aneuploidy in the configuration of chromosomes by having an extra Y chromosome.


intersexualized

Made (or being) intersexual; intersexed.


intersexphobia

Although there is overlap in ways that binary gender norms are imposed on trans* and intersex students, athletes, and staff, we feel it is important to understand how transphobia and intersexphobia work as different forms of discrimination.

2016, Heather Sykes, Christopher Smith, “Trans*, Intersex, and Cisgender Issues in Physical Education and Sport”, in Daniel B. Robinson, Lynn Randall, editors, Social Justice in Physical Education: Critical Reflections and Pedagogies for Change, page 275:

However, Turner said the bear community still has a way to go when it comes to greater diversity and acceptance, as he's faced both intersexphobia and biphobia from within its ranks.

2016 September, Matthew Wade, “Something To Growl About”, in Star Observer Magazine, page 13:

In fact, I believe that it is this fear of bodily difference, akin to homophobia, intersexphobia if you will, that drives some doctors to recommend, and parents to agree to, medically unnecessary surgery on intersex children and infants.

2020, Kimberly M. Zieselman, XOXY: A Memoir (Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist), page 205:

(neologism) Fear, dislike, or hatred of intersexual people and/or intersexuality.


AMAB

The sample consists of participants AMAB.

Gender-affirming hormone therapy may involve testosterone for trans people assigned female at birth (AFAB) and estradiol and anti-androgens for trans people AMAB.

2021, Jane Y. Xu, Michelle A. O’Connell, Lauren Notini, Ada S. Cheung, Sav Zwickl, Ken C. Pang, “Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators: A Potential Option For Non-Binary Gender-Affirming Hormonal Care?”, in Front Endocrinol, →DOI:

(LGBTQ) Acronym of assigned male at birth.


AMAB

Coordinate term: AFAB

I don’t mean that trans AFABs have an easier experience than trans AMABs (Assigned Male At Birth). Each requires different resources and support. If Harpeth Hall doesn't have those for AFABs, they certainly don’t have them for AMABs.

2022 September 2, Bucky Fuchs, “I'm a trans grad of Harpeth Hall and glad they reneged on their gender policy”, in The Tennessean:


AFAB

The sample consists of participants AFAB.

(LGBTQ) Acronym of assigned female at birth.


AFAB

Alright, AFAB porn performers: we're all doubling our scene rates for creampie scenes, right?

2022 June 24, Siri Dahl, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-12-15:


AFAB

Coordinate term: AMAB

They experience deadnaming, alienation, and bullying. And this happens to people Assigned Female at Birth (AFAB) at a school specifically for AFABs. / I don’t mean that trans AFABs have an easier experience than trans AMABs (Assigned Male At Birth).


LGBTIQ

Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, intersex and queer/questioning.


LGBTQI

en-adj

LGBTQI (comparative more LGBTQI, superlative most LGBTQI)

more LGBTQI (comparative)
most LGBTQI (superlative)

(LGBTQ) Abbreviation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning (or: queer), intersex.


Klinefelter

Klinefelter syndrome
Klinefelter syndrome#English


LGBTTQQIAAP

Although the initialism is constantly expanding and changing ‒ the longest version being LGBTTQQIAAP (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, ally, pansexual) coined in the spring of[…]

2015 November 1, Tim Broadwater, Design, Gamification, and Usability Affecting Social Change for LGBTQIA People, Tim Broadwater, page 4:

In recent years, additional letters have been integrated into this acronym to include those who identify as transsexual (T), queer (Q), questioning (Q), intersex (I), asexual (A), ally (A), and pansexual (P), to produce LGBTTQQIAAP,[…]

2017 April 15, Kevin L. Nadal, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:

Shifting to singular they from he or she may ruffle your grammatical feathers, and you may get lost in the number of letters found in LGBTTQQIAAP (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, ally, and pansexual).

2021 December 13, Hedreich Nichols, Finding Your Blind Spots: Eight Guiding Principles for Overcoming Implicit Bias in Teaching, Solution Tree Press, →ISBN:

... and the initialisms coined to capture any deviation from perceived norms (e.g., LGBTTQQIAAP [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, ally, pansexual]); no wonder we are confused.

2022 May 5, R. John Aitken, The Infertility Trap: Why life choices impact your fertility and why we must act now, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 127:

(rare) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual/aromantic, ally, and pansexual.


intersexualize

en-verb

intersexualize (third-person singular simple present intersexualizes, present participle intersexualizing, simple past and past participle intersexualized)

intersexualizes (present singular third-person)
intersexualizing (participle present)
intersexualized (participle past)
intersexualized (past)

On the other hand, in Ambystoma maculatum, it was reported by Burns ('39) that the effect induced by the administration of the same hormone is retained only to intersexualize the female gonad.

1957, Journal of the Institute of Polytechnics, Osaka City University: Biology:

I argue that this pan-sexual potential which is materially erased in intersexualizing surgery has a homologue in ...

2016, Lena Eckert, Intersexualization: The Clinic and the Colony, →ISBN:

(rare, nonstandard) Synonym of intersex (“to make intersexual, to make intersex”)


gender confirmation surgery

en-noun

gender confirmation surgery (countable and uncountable, plural gender confirmation surgeries)

gender-affirming surgery
gender-affirming surgery#English


LGBTQQIAAPP

(uncommon) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual/agender, allied, pansexual and polyamorous/polysexual.


androgen insensitivity syndrome

androgen insensitivity syndrome (uncountable)

(pathology) A condition where an individual is unresponsive to male hormones. For persons with male gonads, this is associated with higher grades on the Quigley scale.

complete androgen insensitivity syndrome


metamale

(biology) Synonym of supermale (“male with XYY syndrome”)


birth sex

birth sex (countable and uncountable, plural birth sexes)

The sex that someone was assigned at birth (or before via prenatal sex discernment), which may differ, as in cases of intersexuality, from their current sex assignment.


intersexphobic

en-adj

intersexphobic (comparative more intersexphobic, superlative most intersexphobic)

more intersexphobic (comparative)
most intersexphobic (superlative)

There is an urgent need to unpack the sexism underpinning these transphobic and intersexphobic views of sport; […]

2016, Heather Sykes, Christopher Smith, “Trans*, Intersex, and Cisgender Issues in Physical Education and Sport”, in Daniel B. Robinson, Lynn Randall, editors, Social Justice in Physical Education: Critical Reflections and Pedagogies for Change, Canadian Scholars’ Press, →ISBN, page 285:

Sometimes participants can say or do things that reflect or highlight their heteronormative, gender[-]normative, or intersexphobic beliefs.

2017, Terence Humphreys, “Down The Rabbit Hole: Learning New Perspectives Around Diverse Genders, Sexes, and Sexualities”, in Jeffrey Lynn Sapp, William DeJean, editors, Dear Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Teacher: Letters of Advice to Help You Find Your Way, IAP, →ISBN, page 191:

Use language that is informed, positive, affirming and supportive when referring to people born with intersex variations, challenging any language that is intersexphobic and accurately educating students about the human body.

2021, Annette Brömdal, “Towards a whole-school approach for sexuality education in supporting and upholding the rights and health of students with intersex variations”, in Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, volume 21, number 5:

Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting intersexphobia.


LGBTQQIA

(LGBTQ) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transexual, queer, questioning, intersex, and allied/asexual/aromantic/agender.


interphobia

Behrensen condemns the practice of targeting certain athletes and subjecting them to the indignity and humiliation of a procedure that has no bearing on athletic ability and that further violates privacy in the service of accommodating interphobia.

2017, Thomas Keith, Masculinities in Contemporary American Culture: An Intersectional Approach to the Complexities and Challenges of Male Identity, page 283:

I knew those attitudes were out there, but I'd already learned that I had to reject the racism I'd experienced as a child, and the homophobia later on, so it seemed natural to also reject the interphobia I saw directed at intersex people.

2018, August McLaughlin, Girl Boner: The Good Girl's Guide to Sexual Empowerment, unnumbered page:

Many intersex people and intersex studies scholars note how various oppressive systems—interphobia, heterosexism, phallogocentrism, queerphobia, as well as compulsory dyadism, heterosexuality, and able-bodiedness—work together to justify curative violence.

2021, Rohini Bannerjee, Karim Mukhida, From Band-Aids to Scalpels: Motherhood Experiences in/of Medicine, Demeter Press, →ISBN:


interphobic

interphobic (comparative more interphobic, superlative most interphobic)

more interphobic (comparative)
most interphobic (superlative)

[…] or the use of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to prevent the development of intersex foetuses, considered by some to be an example of interphobic eugenics (Orr, 2016).

2019, Jemma Tosh, The Body and Consent in Psychology, Psychiatry, and Medicine: A Therapeutic Rape Culture, unnumbered page:

As recent attacks on the transgender community have demonstrated, excluding the natural existence of sex and gender diversity supports interphobic and transphobic beliefs and policies.

2020, Hida Viloria, Maria Nieto, The Spectrum of Sex: The Science of Male, Female, and Intersex, page 127:

Conversely, homophobic, transphobic, and interphobic environments lead to violence against students and educational staff.

2021, Clifton Cortez, John Arzinos, & Christian De la Medina Soto, Equality of Opportunity for Sexual and Gender Minorities, unnumbered page

Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting interphobia.


hermafrodite

Compare Dutch hermafrodiet, Portuguese hermafrodita, and Spanish hermafrodita.

To me anyone presenting herself as female, is a female (TS/TV or anything else). Anyone presenting himself as male is a male (idem), anyone presenting him/herself as anything inbetween^([sic]) is considered hermafrodite/androgyn.^([sic]) It's a question of social role and a litlle^([sic]) tact, not genotype and/or fenotype.^([sic]) What would you call a XY-woman, an XX-man or a biological hermafrodite (they *do* exist)? A woman who has undergone hysterectomy or a castrated man ?

1997 May 18, Renate Meijer, “Who are we ?”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-11:

I have only the one body, in which I feel comfortable, but by rights, I should be a hermafrodite.

2000 January 20, Taemon, “Introduction”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-11:

> Did you know that males of C. elegans masturbate?
Do these little perverts know what they are doing or they are just responding to hormonal stimulus when they become sexually mature? Some C. elegans are hermafrodites and capable of self-fertilization. Perhaps the males don't "know" they are not hermafrodites and are simply trying to fertilize themselves.

2000 January 24, Joao Jose Marques, “GM Rice”, in sci.agriculture (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-11:

But, definetly,^([sic]) a man is one force and woman the other one. When they are in the sexual intercouse,^([sic]) right in that moment they form, one more time , the primitive hermafrodite, with the power of creation a new life (a baby) and also the power of regenerating themselves through Sexual Magic.

2000 August 1, Luis Castillo, “Masturbation & Meditation”, in alt.magick.tantra (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-11:

Some twenty years ago I read a SF book about 4 people (2 men, 2 women) who were abducted and dropped on another planet. After several adventures they discover that their kidnappers (hermafrodites, with faces that look like the Sphinx) again offer them a new garden of eden. The book made quite an impression on me and I would like to read it again, however I lost the book and also cannot remember the title. The dutch title was (translated in english) "Cosmic Experiment".

2002 April 1, Rogier Schaaf, “Searching...”, in uk.people.sf-fans (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-11:

(non-native speakers' English) Misspelling of hermaphrodite.


AGAB

The signup form on their website did not have a non-binary option, so I had to select my AGAB instead.

(LGBTQ) Initialism of assigned gender at birth.


guevedoce

From Spanish güevedoce, from Dominican Spanish güevos a los doce (“testicles at twelve”).

(medicine, endocrinology) In the Dominican Republic, a person born with male gonads, but who appears to have female external genitalia, as a result of a 5-alpha-reductase deficiency.


endosexism

There's nothing threatening about saying some common trans ontologies in their infancy were rooted in endosexism

2017 October 6, Siobhan O'Leary, tweet (archived)

In fact, numerous studies have demonstrated how manhood also relies on and reproduces societal patterns of cissexism, endosexism, monosexism, heterosexism, classism, racism, ageism, nationalism, and religious privilege in the United States.

2020, J. E. Sumerau, Violent Manhood, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, pages 6–7:

We discuss this finding with reference to cisgenderism and endosexism, focusing particularly on being critical of ‘gender’ and foregrounding biological sex, and views for and against self-identifying gender.

2020, Elizabeth Peel, Hannah J. H. Newman, Gender's wider stakes: lay attitudes to legal gender reform, in feminists@law (ISSN 2046-9551)

Stigma and discrimination combined with minority stress, and cultural and social norms that give preference to heterosexuality, cisgenderism and endosexism, are some of the root causes that contribute to these health inequalities.

2020 May, Valeria Donisi et al., “Training healthcare professionals in LGBTI cultural competencies: Exploratory findings from the Health4LGBTI pilot project”, in Patient Education and Counseling, volume 103, number 5, pages 978–987:

Intersex people are not extremely rare, although endosexism (up to and including forced genital surgery in infancy) has contributed to conditions that lead us to believe they are.

2022 September 6, Reese Minshew, Treating Trauma in Trans People: An Intersectional, Phase-Based Approach, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

(rare) A system, practice, or bias privileging endosex people over intersex people.


LGBTI+

The Australian men’s national team released a video on Thursday morning with 16 players delivering their message line by line, raising concerns about the “suffering” of migrant workers and the inability in Qatar of LGBTI+ people “to love the person that they choose”.

2022 August 26, Natasha May, Mike Hytner, “Socceroos make collective statement to speak out about Qatar’s human rights record”, in The Guardian:

(LGBTQ) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, intersex etc.


gender-affirming

From gender + affirming, "bringing into conformance with [the person's] gender".

Transgender youth in North Carolina would have to wait until they turn 18 to receive gender-affirming surgeries under a bill approved Wednesday by the GOP-controlled state House.

2023 May 3, “North Carolina House OKs Ban on Transgender Youth Surgeries”, in U.S. News & World Report:

We stress that reconstructive breast surgeries and testicular implants are gender-affirming interventions—rather than interventions provided through a generic form of respect for persons—because gender is a morally significant, social category that shapes how individuals regard themselves and understand each other.

2023 June 7, “Gender-Affirming Care for Cisgender People”, in Hastings Center Report, →DOI:

(medicine, transgender) Inducing a change in the physical gender characteristics, whether surgically, pharmaceutically, or otherwise, typically of a transgender or intersex person.


PAIS

en-noun

PAIS (countable and uncountable, plural PAISs)

w:partial androgen insensitivity syndrome

Initialism of partial androgen insensitivity syndrome.


PMDS

persistent Müllerian duct syndrome
w:persistent Müllerian duct syndrome

Initialism of persistent Müllerian duct syndrome.


altersex

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(of an individual) Having any of a variety of acquired conditions in which one's sex characteristics differ from those of a typical male and female; for example, having sex characteristics relating to both male and female sexes by choice. this word can be used to fictional condition.


gender transition

gender transition (countable and uncountable, plural gender transitions)

This book is intended to be a guide for MtF and FtM Transsexuals in managing the legal aspects of gender transition.

1999, Spencer Bergstedt, “Book Reviews”, in Matthew S. Carlos, Mykael Hawley, editors, Transgender Tapestry, Waltham, Mass.: International Foundation for Gender Education, →ISSN, page 83, column 1:

(transgender) Process or act of changing one's gender role or physical characteristics, by social, medical, or legal methods, to conform to their identified gender, rather than the sex assigned at birth.

gendertransisie

process of affirming one's gender identity


gender-affirming surgery

gender-affirming surgery (countable and uncountable, plural gender-affirming surgeries)

(transgender) A surgical procedure that alters a person's physical sexual characteristics to conform with their gender identity.


gender affirmation surgery

gender affirmation surgery (countable and uncountable, plural gender affirmation surgeries)

Gender-affirmation surgery is a rapidly growing field in plastic surgery, urologic surgery, and gynecologic surgery. […] However, the details of gender-affirmation surgery are less well-known to other surgical subspecialties and other medical subspecialties.

2021, Arya Andre Akhavan, Shabaaz Sandhu, Idorenyin Ndem, Adeyemi A Ogunleye, “A review of gender affirmation surgery: What we know, and what we need to know”, in Surgery, volume 170, number 1, →DOI, →PMID, pages 336–340:


intersexness

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The state of having the physical features of both sexes, or of having ambiguous sex, i.e. not unambiguously male or female.