This section hosts articles grouped by intersex variation, per medical terms.
Not all intersex people have a medical diagnosis or prefer medicalized language at all. It can still be helpful to some people to connect according to medical diagnosis—for example, to compare experiences about their bodies and feel less alone.
In February Alice Dreger published an article which explored the construct of gender and the current medical model lack of psych-social support for boys born with hypospadias in Pacific Standard. “Males are sometimes born with a urinary meatus (what kids might call “the pee hole”) somewhere other than the tip of the penis, which can
