Conditions and Scope
There are a variety of opinions on what conditions are and are not intersex. For instance, the defunct Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) definition states that the following conditions "sometimes involve intersex anatomy" (note this does not mean they are always intersex conditions):
- 5-alpha reductase deficiency
- androgen insensitivity syndrome
- aphallia
- clitoromegaly
- congenital adrenal hyperplasia
- gonadal dysgenesis (partial & complete)
- hypospadias
- Klinefelter syndrome
- micropenis
- mosaicism involving sex chromosomes
- ovo-testes (formerly called "true hermaphroditism")
- partial androgen insensitivity syndrome
- progestin-induced virilisation
- Swyer syndrome
- Turner syndrome
See also
- 17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency
- cryptorchidism
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