- 1間性、間性人（台灣也常說「雙性人」；舊稱「陰陽人」不尊重，別用）
An intersex person is born with sex traits — chromosomes, hormones, inner or outer body parts — that do not sit in the usual male or female boxes. It is about the body you are born with, not about who you love, and not the same as living as a man or a woman when that differs from the sex written at birth. Doctors used to hide this and rush to operate on babies; many intersex people now ask to be told the truth and to choose, when they are old enough, what if anything is done. Intersex can name a person (noun) or describe them (adjective). Though actually, everyday talk still mixes this up with being transgender, which is a different thing. Older English used for people; that word hurts, and we do not use it that way. This is a real human variation, not a puzzle or a joke. There is no one intersex body; it is a spread of differences, some noticed at birth, some much later.
組成Borrowed from German Intersexe. In English it reads as inter- (between) + sex.
同家族的字
- sexthe second half of the word
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
intersexadj/ˈɪn.tə.sɛks/
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Of an individual, having any of a variety of inherent conditions (in a species with distinct sexes) in which one's sex characteristics differ from those of a typical male and female; for example, having sex characteristics relating to both male and female sexes.
- His confidentiality was broken, and soon the entire staff and residential population were aware that Jim was intersex. […] we faced the fact that most programs were gender segregated and would not be a safe place for Jim to be known as intersex.
- When I had learned that I was intersex, I brought this issue to my mother.
intersexnoun/ˈɪn.tə.sɛks/
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The condition of being intersex; intersexuality.
- A Canadian believes that he has solved the diagnostic problem in human intersex. All human cells, says Dr. Murray L. Barr of the University of Western Ontario, contain something called sex chromatin.
- A much more common condition caused by early exposure of fish larvae to oestrogenic substances is intersex, which in males usually takes the form of ovotestis.
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biologynatural-scienceszoologyAn individual with any of these conditions.
- Goldschmidt and others who have thought of the homosexual individual as an intersex have relied upon incidence figures which were pure guesses and which, as the data in the present chapter will show, bear little relation to the fact....
- Conversely, a fertilized egg with one X-chromosome would develop not into a male but into an intersex […]
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fantasyA person who can get pregnant and also impregnate someone else.
intersexverb/ˈɪn.tə.sɛks/
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To make intersex.
- The point is significant in light of current political issues surrounding real intersexed individuals. [...] It is clearly the case that physical intersexing and psychological androgyny do not conform to sex and gender norms in society. [...]
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