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Beyond the Sex Binary

Fausto-Sterling, A. (1993). The five sexes: why male and female are not enough. The Sciences, 33(2), 20–.
Examines the complexities of intersexual people and the way society responds. Intersex and the three major subgroups of hermaphrodites; Case histories; Legal system and sexual registration; Embryological origins; Use of hormonal and surgical procedures to control the sex of the human body.
Fausto-Sterling, A. (2000). The Five Sexes, Revisited. The Sciences, 40(4), 18–23.
As if from nowhere, intersexuals are materializing everywhere, and the boundaries separating the masculine and feminine seem harder than ever to define. This change has added another dimension to the debate on how to treat newborns of genital ambiguity.
MacKenzie, D., Huntington, A., & Gilmour, J. (2009). The experiences of people with an intersex condition: a journey from silence to voice. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 18(12), 1775–1783.
The aim of this research was to explore the experiences of people with intersex conditions. The main objective was to contribute to knowledge of the condition by giving voice to a group of people who are invisible in society. Background. Medical management of intersex conditions has historically focused on erasing visual bodily difference through gender assignation and medical/surgical intervention ...
What is Intersex?
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What is intersex? (Intersex Society of America)
Intersex is a general term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male. For example, a person might be born appearing to be female on the outside, ...

Between XX and XY: intersexuality and the myth of two sexes by Gerald N. Callahan
Location: ebook
Publication Date: 2009
Providing a fascinating look at the science of sex and what makes people male or female, this book explains dozens of intersex conditions--such as hermaphroditism, Klinefelter syndrome, and androgen insensitivity syndrome--and includes personal interviews with people living with these conditions telling their surprising and often heart-wrenching stories. Even doctors and scientists are not entirely sure if external genitalia, internal sex organs, chromosomes, DNA, environment, or some combination define a person's sex, but this examination shows that sex is not an either-or proposition...
Chapter 47 - Judith Butler: From: Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex.” (1999). In The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance by Lizbeth Goodman; Jane de Gay (Editor)
Location: ebook
Publication Date: 2002
The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance presents the most influential and widely-known, critical work on gender and performing arts, together with exciting and provocative new writings. It provides systematically arranged articles to guide the reader from topic to topic, and specially linked articles by scholars and teachers to explain key issues and put the extracts in context.

What I’ve learned from having balls. | Emily Quinn | TEDxProvidence

Emily Quinn has balls, literally. At age 10 she found out she was intersex (that her biology isn’t strictly male or female) and she was told not to tell anyone about it. In this brave, vulnerable talk Emily shares what it’s like to carry the burden of shame while navigating a world where nobody understood her body. Her experience teaches us that bodies are a lot more diverse and complicated than we make them out to be, and leaves us with one question: what's so bad about being different?