refers to a wide range of innate variations in sex characteristics. Intersex persons are born with sex characteristics, including sexual anatomy, reproductive organs, hormone patterns, and chromosomes, that do not fit typical definitions of male or female bodies.
These variations may be apparent at birth, later in childhood, during puberty, or not be externally visible at all. Intersex people exist in all societies, and intersex variations are part of the diversity of human sex characteristics.
