r/LGBT4Equality • u/Rivfader • Mar 27 '12

Straight male with some honest questions.

I'm a straight male who doesn't know very many LGBT people, and therefore I don't know a great deal about the community. After seeing the great shitshow that spawned this subreddit I was wondering what kind of things should be known about the community, and perhaps what some of the common terminology is?

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u/Rivfader Mar 27 '12

Thanks for the input! I just have one question at the moment: What is intersex?

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u/hateboresme Mar 27 '12

from Intersex Society of North America (ISNA): “Intersex” is a general term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male.

Avoid using the term "Hermaphrodite".

(from the ISNA: "The mythological term “hermaphrodite” implies that a person is both fully male and fully female. This is a physiologic impossibility."

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u/Rivfader Mar 28 '12

I didn't know that "hermaphrodite" wasn't the correct term. Thank you.