Intersex people in history

Intersex, in humans and other animals, describes variations in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones, or genitals that, according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies." Intersex people were historically termed hermaphrodites, "congenital eunuchs," or even congenitally "frigid". Such terms have fallen out of favor, now considered to be misleading, discriminatory, and stigmatizing.

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Intersex people in history

Intersex, in humans and other animals, describes variations in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones, or genitals that, according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies." Intersex people were historically termed hermaphrodites, "congenital eunuchs," or even congenitally "frigid". Such terms have fallen out of favor, now considered to be misleading, discriminatory, and stigmatizing.

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