The word "intersex" has made headlines this week as Belgian model Hanne Gaby Odiele announced Monday that she was born with the condition. Odiele, 29, is one of the first high-profile people to speak ...

Up to 1.7% of the population is born into an intersex body — meaning, they are born with sex characteristics that don't fit neatly into typical definitions of male or female bodies. Despite this, ...

Depending on the type of intersex variation someone has, it could alter their chromosome makeup, genital appearance, hormonal balance, and more. Share on Pinterest Maskot/Getty Images We’re born with ...

The first time I learned about biological sex was a ninth grade science class, and my early takeaway was that it comes down to genetics. Either you have XX chromosomes and you're biologically female, ...

Everyone lied to Pidgeon Pagonis for many years. Now it's time they told their truth. They're intersex. Pagonis' memoir "Nobody Needs to Know" (Topple Books/Little A, 208 pp., out Tuesday) – a ...

Thursday is the annual Intersex Awareness Day. Intersex Awareness Day commemorates the world’s first-ever intersex protest that took place in Boston on Oct. 26, 1996. The Washington Blade this week ...

The Houston Intersex Society’s co-founder Mo Cortez holds up a program of "Rusty X," a 2025 memoir play of Cortez's life, at THIS’ headquarters on Jan. 18, 2026. Aside from a hole in his heart that ...

Utah Code 68-3-S12.5 (effective May 1, 2024) defines male and female based on their biological reproductive systems. Male is described as “the characteristic of an individual whose biological ...

In the U.S., thousands of infants with intersex traits undergo medically unnecessary genital surgeries each year, often ...

President Trump's executive order that the federal government recognizes only two sexes, male and female, led the State Department to suspend its policy allowing transgender, intersex and nonbinary ...