If you were to estimate the size of the intersex community based solely on the attention they receive, you may never guess that they make up nearly 2 percent of the population.
You’re about as likely to run into an intersex person on the street as you are a natural redhead. Still, the serious and sometimes life-threatening issues faced by intersex people are rarely discussed in our culture — and cultural erasure is just the beginning.“Intersex” is an umbrella term for differences in sex traits or reproductive anatomy, like genitalia, hormones, internal anatomy, or chromosomes, that may be present at birth or manifest later in life.