intersexual
In Europe the term ‘intersexual’ was first to be used before the 2nd World War. [1]
… sometimes biology malfunctions and children are born with mixed sexual characteristics in what is called an intersexual birth. [2]
One would hope that the unique challenges faced by intersexual individuals could be handled through an interaction of intersexuals, their families, physicians and other health professionals. [3]
Intersexuality, in a variety of forms, occurs in about one of every 2,000 births–about the same proportion as cystic fibrosis. [4]
Intersex Defined: A person who is born between (inter) sexes, having partially or fully developed pairs of female and male sex organs. [2]
Intersexuality in humans refers to intermediate or atypical combinations of physical features that usually distinguish male from female. [1]
Every child is expected to be conceived with XX or XY chromosomes, grow up to be either a man or a woman, to have internal and external sexual organs which are clearly male or female, and to be sexually attracted to members of the “opposite” sex when they mature. [3]
The common pathway of sexual differentiation, where a productive human female has an XX chromosome pair, and a productive male has an XY pair, is relevant to the development of intersexed conditions. [...] In most societies, intersexed people have been expected to conform to either a male or female gender role. [...] Research in the late twentieth century has led to a growing medical consensus that diverse intersex physicalities are normal, but relatively rare, forms of human biology. [1]
Several activist and support groups by and for intersexuals have been formed. [3]
When I was born, the doctors couldn’t tell my parents what I was: They couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. [5]
Now they had to decide whether to take home a baby that was neither male nor female. [...] WHEN EMMA McDONALD WAS BORN ON SEPTEMBER 15, 1998, doctors whisked her away so quickly her family barely had a chance to look at her. [...] Vicki and Charles McDonald were shocked. [4]
Sources:
[1] Intersexuality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[2] Being Intersexual
[3] Intersexual genital mutilation in North America & Europe
[4] A-Question-of-Gender
[5] NOVA Online | Sex: Unknown | My Life as an Intersexual