Inter­sex issues are diverse and com­plex. The take-away mes­sage? Peo­ple with­in this very small minor­i­ty have had a dif­fi­cult to be rec­og­nized as healthy, ordi­nary peo­ple who deserve med­ical auton­o­my and the right to not alter their bod­ies to fit social ideas.

Trig­ger warn­ing for dis­cus­sion of the pore­vi­ous­ly used term h*rmaphrodite.