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re: so what does this "intersex" mean? Feb. 11th, 2005 6:53pm
Why is CAH classified as intersex then?
You may want to read that passage again. It makes a very good case as why CAH is an intersex condition.
By the way, intersex is actually a fairly recent term used by doctors with CAH--that is starting about 20-25 years ago and long before there was an intersex advocacy movement. You can do a search as I posted once a long etiology of the word and how/when it came into use. I'm sorry I can't help you find it but maybe Danny can. I do recall it was in relation to a question that Aimee had asked. I wish I did have it because I could use it in another project I am working on and I put alot of hours into doing the research for it but failed to keep a copy.
Previous to calling it intersex, they used " female pseudo-hermaphrodite" . Ironically, girls and women with AIS were called "male pseudo-hermaphrodite". Much of that language goes back to when medicine considered sex as gonadal based. As medicine has learned more about chromosomes, those terms fell into disuse and intersex became common in the medical textbooks.
If you don't like it, you really need to start with your doctors. They are the ones who coined it and they are the ones who use it. Practically every physician who is raved about on this site uses the word for CAH according to their research and websites.
