What is Intersex?

This entire topic is weird. Not the subject line topic, but the gender topic. It’s weird. It makes my brain hurt, but I’m also disturbingly fascinated. I’ve been in many conversations where the intersex subject comes up, and I’m sick of seeing it. It’s an ugly attempt at a “gotcha,” an ignorant person hoping the person they’re arguing with is more ignorant than they are. “If there are more than two sexes, then what about intersex people,” is usually the line. Before we talk about it, let’s go over a few things: