Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Existing or occurring between the sexes.
- adjective Having anatomical characteristics that are neither typically male nor typically female.
- noun An intersexual person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Existing between the sexes; exerted by one sex upon the other.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a competition, etc.
Between thesexes . - adjective biology Having both
male andfemale characteristics, or characteristicsintermediate between the sexes. - noun An
intersexed person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective existing or occurring between the sexes
- adjective having sexual characteristics intermediate between those of male and female
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Examples
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In fact, medically, there are children that are born that are called intersexual children.
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Biologically minded authors are likely to consider TVism and TSism as "intersexual" phenomena but those are almost exclusively European scientists.
A.E.Brain 2009
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To exist in a modern world, we must often ignore its indecorous parts: the rivers of waste we produce, the intersexual fish we create.
Pipe Dreams Luke O 2009
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The strength of the novel lies not only in the depiction of a detailed future of hardship and privation, but in the expert characterisation of Shah: a lone figure whose origins leave him open to prejudice within the police department, and whose problematic relationship with an intersexual courtesan reveals his own deep-seated prejudices.
Dark Matter, Clowns at Midnight, Damage Time and Version 43 - reviews Eric Brown 2010
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To exist in a modern world, we must often ignore its indecorous parts: the rivers of waste we produce, the intersexual fish we create.
Pipe Dreams Luke O 2009
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If something good is to come of this circus I hope it is that we all educate ourselves on gender variant people and how those of us who are intersexual or cisgendered need to be able to their own choices -- and to run, if that is what they choose to do.
Should High School Girls Have To Take Gender Tests? - From Awearness 2009
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Well, intersexual disorders or whatever ones caling them is interesting.
I am fevered and do the R word. Plus Intersex: 3 million USA women gagged by society, by us. Elizabeth McClung 2010
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It means that Kristen Stewart must be an intersexual.
Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson Watch Film BECAUSE IT’S LOVE 2010
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This is a guest post by Queers United: The activist blog uniting the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersexual, asexual community & straight allies in the fight for equality!
Archive 2009-05-01 Renee 2009
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The activist blog uniting the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersexual, asexual community & straight allies in the fight for equality!
Archive 2009-04-01 Renee 2009
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