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[[File:Intersex flag.svg|thumb|In 2013, the [http://oii.org.au/22773/an-intersex-flag/ Organisation Intersex International Australia] created this intersex pride flag. The circle symbolizes wholeness, and the colors are meant to not be derivatives of pink (female) or blue (male).<ref>http://oii.org.au/22773/an-intersex-flag/</ref>]]
[[File:Intersex flag.svg|thumb|In 2013, the [http://oii.org.au/22773/an-intersex-flag/ Organisation Intersex International Australia] created this intersex pride flag. The circle symbolizes wholeness, and the colors are meant to not be derivatives of pink (female) or blue (male).<ref>http://oii.org.au/22773/an-intersex-flag/</ref>]]
'''Intersex''' people have some aspect of their physical [[sex]] that is inconsistent with conventional ideas of male and female sex. This difference is in their primary or secondary sexual characteristics, hormones, or chromosomes.
'''Intersex''' people have some aspect of their physical [[sex]] that is inconsistent with conventional ideas of male and female sex. This difference is in their primary or secondary sexual characteristics, hormones, or chromosomes.<ref>[https://unfe.org/system/unfe-65-Intersex_Factsheet_ENGLISH.pdf "Free & Equal Campaign Fact Sheet: Intersex"] (PDF). United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2016.</ref>


An intersex person may have any [[gender identity]]. They may agree with their assigned gender ([[cisgender]]), or they may think of themselves as [[transgender]], or it may be more complicated. They may or may not think of themselves as being part of the [[LGBTIQAP]] spectrum.
An intersex person may have any [[gender identity]]. They may agree with their assigned gender ([[cisgender]]), or they may think of themselves as [[transgender]], or it may be more complicated. They may or may not think of themselves as being part of the [[LGBTIQAP]] spectrum.
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