Etymology

endosex

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Today it means: Not intersex; born with sex characteristics that are considered typically male or female. Full definition →

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From endo- + sex. Coined as a counterpart to intersex by Heike Bödeker in 2000 (in English, following Bödeker's coinage of German endosexuell in 1999).

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