Intersex

Intersexed Person — Someone whose sex a doctor has a difficult time  categorizing as either male or female. A person whose combination of chromosomes, gonads, hormones, internal sex organs, gonads, and/or genitals differs from one of the two expected patterns.

LGBTRC Library Resources

Books:
  • As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto (2001)
  • Intersex and Identity: The Contested Self by Sharon E. Preves (2003)
  • Intersex in the Age of Ethics (1999)
  • Lessons from the Intersexed by Suzanne J. Kessler (1998)
  • Myths of Gender: Biological Theories About Women and Men by Anne Fausto-Sterling (1992)
  • Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude by Amy Bloom (2002)
  • Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling (2000)
  • Sugar and Spice and Puppy Dog Tails: Growing Up Intersexed by Katherine Connella (2001)