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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>]]
-'''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>
+'''Intersex''' people are people born with any variation in [[sex]] characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones, or genitals that do not fit the typical definitions of male or female bodies.<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; in this case, they would be described as either [[ipsogender]] or [[cisgender]], although the usage of the term ''cisgender'' is controversial with regard to intersex people. They may think of themselves as [[transgender]], [[genderqueer]], [[non-binary]], etc. An intersex person who feels that their intersex status has influenced their gender identity may identify as [[intergender]]. Some intersex people think of their intersex status as belonging to the broader range of [[LGBTIQAP]] identities.
-A person with a [[Nonbinary gender|non-binary gender]] is not necessarily intersex, and instead may be ''dyadic'' (not intersex).
+Not everyone who identifies as [[Nonbinary gender|non-binary]] is necessarily intersex, and instead may be ''dyadic'' (not intersex).
 Intersex was one of the 56 genders made available on Facebook in 2014.<ref>Eve Shapiro, ''Gender circuits: Bodies and identities in a technological age.'' Unpaged.</ref>