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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 February 2025. Atypical congenital variations of sex characteristics This article is about intersex in humans. For intersex in other animals, see Intersex (biology). Not to be confused with Hermaphrodite. Intersex topics Human rights and legal issues Compulsory sterilization Discrimination Human ...
Pregnancy is not possible for transgender women as they lack a female reproductive system. As of 2019, uterus transplantation has not been successfully performed in transgender women. [ 26 ] The Danish transgender painter Lili Elbe died in 1931 from surgical complications following an attempt at such an operation.
Various criteria have been offered for the definition of intersex, including ambiguous genitalia, atypical genitalia, and differential sexual development. Ambiguous genitalia occurs in roughly 0.05% of all births, usually caused by masculinization or feminization during pregnancy, these conditions range from full androgen insensitivity syndrome to ovotesticular syndrome.
Reuben Zellman, U.S. intersex and transgender rabbi and musician. [53] [54] Kimberly Zieselman, U.S. advocate, attorney, and executive director of interACT. [55] Dana Zzyym, U.S. non-binary intersex activist and Associate Director of Intersex Campaign for Equality. Zzyym is suing the U.S. State Department for a gender-neutral passport in Zzyym v.
"[To] the people that are aware of the intersex carve-outs, it’s pretty alarming," says Marissa Adams, a 30-year-old intersex woman and a program coordinator at InterACT, who has suffered ...
In her new memoir, Alicia Roth Weigel shares her story of coming out in the most political way possible.
Lee et al. in a 2006 Consensus statement on management of intersex disorders proposed a system of nomenclature based on "disorders of sex development" for clinical use, suggesting that "terms such as intersex, pseudohermaphroditism, hermaphroditism, sex reversal, and gender based diagnostic labels are particularly controversial," may be ...
Beatie chose to be pregnant, with donated sperm, [4] [5] because his wife Nancy was sterile. The couple filed for divorce in 2012. The Beatie case is the first of its kind on record, where a documented legal male gave birth within a marriage to a woman, and for the first time, a court challenged a marriage where the husband gave birth.