Person born with any of several variations in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones or genitals that do not fit the typical definitions for male or female bodies

Hermaphroditus sleeping. Steel engraving by J.B.H. Bourgois after P. Bouillon, 1808.

Hermaphroditus sleeping. Etching by C. Grignion after R. Dalton, 1744.

Clay figures, the right one clothed and placing his hand on the left one, who is naked and intersex (hermaphrodite). Watercolour.

Hermaphroditus. Etching by Pierre Duflos.

A person of both genders advertised as a spectacle. Letterpress and halftone, 192-.

Barry's living wonders will exhibit here : no.1 & 2 Burnett's Road, near the Agricultural Hall, during the Cattle Show next week : the greatest living wonder ever seen : the double man : half man & half woman alive!.

A statue of Attis, front and back views, showing male genitals and female breasts. Engraving, 1669.

Wahre Abbildung einer Wunder-Geburt, so im Königreich Castilien zu Gian Anno 1680 den 13. December ... gebohren worden ist : Wie auch die Feuer-Saul, so zu Livorno etlich Wochen lang, alle Abend am Himmel gesehen worden.

A clay figure of an intersex person revealing their genital area (Hermaphroditos anasyromenos). Watercolour.

Facts! Amazing facts! : Never exhibited in England, Mademoiselle Lefort, a first rate phenomen ...

Queer adolescence : understanding the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual youth / Charlie McNabb.

1 painting : watercolour ; image 12 x 6.3 cm

xii, 221 pages : black and white ilustrations ; 24 cm.

Contesting intersex : the dubious diagnosis / Georgiann Davis.

Interdisciplinary and global perspectives on intersex / Megan Walker, editor.

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Intersex Persons

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Queer adolescence : understanding the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual youth / Charlie McNabb.

A clay figure of an intersex person revealing their genital area (Hermaphroditos anasyromenos). Watercolour.

Contesting intersex : the dubious diagnosis / Georgiann Davis.

Interdisciplinary and global perspectives on intersex / Megan Walker, editor.

Wahre Abbildung einer Wunder-Geburt, so im Königreich Castilien zu Gian Anno 1680 den 13. December ... gebohren worden ist : Wie auch die Feuer-Saul, so zu Livorno etlich Wochen lang, alle Abend am Himmel gesehen worden.

Intersex Persons

Images from the collections

Images about Intersex Persons

Works from the collections

Queer adolescence : understanding the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual youth / Charlie McNabb.

A clay figure of an intersex person revealing their genital area (Hermaphroditos anasyromenos). Watercolour.

Contesting intersex : the dubious diagnosis / Georgiann Davis.

Interdisciplinary and global perspectives on intersex / Megan Walker, editor.

Wahre Abbildung einer Wunder-Geburt, so im Königreich Castilien zu Gian Anno 1680 den 13. December ... gebohren worden ist : Wie auch die Feuer-Saul, so zu Livorno etlich Wochen lang, alle Abend am Himmel gesehen worden.

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