Abstract
Soon after the disorders of sex development (DSD) terminology was introduced in the 2006 medical consensus statement on the management of intersex traits, intersexuality became an outdated term within medical discourse. Because of the way the DSD terminology was officially introduced by an international medical consortium, it appears individuals with intersex traits are left to engage with it. Interviews with thirty-seven research participants with intersex traits show that DSD terminology is engaged in different ways by those the terminology is meant to describe, with some arguing against it, others supporting it and a few being indifferent to it. Participants also tended to describe self-understandings that might conflict with the intersex identity that was observed in the 1990s. Patterns across participants’ preferred terminology and their relationships with family members and medical providers are also observed.
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