intersexualadj.n.

1825 St. James's Chron. 1–3 Sept. So far indeed as the intersexual law of England..extends, it is wholly against that intensity of passion..which is the proud and the exclusive ornament of English women.

1897 H. Ellis & J. A. Symonds Sexual Inversion 183 This is quite as true of intersexual as of homosexual love.

1930 F. Dell in F. Kirchwey Our Changing Morailty 186 We, in America, with a vast amount of freedom of intersexual association, have thus far only begun to dispense with..the appurtenances of a physical segregation of the sexes.

1973 Waterloo (Iowa) Courier 20 Nov. 14/1 While athletic confrontations between men and women usually spark a great deal of controversy.., bowling quietly offers a battleground for inter-sexual sports competition.

2002 J. Beynon Masculinities & Culture vii. 150 Turning to television, a number of commentators have argued that the whole balance of intersexual relationships has changed towards female power.

1916 R. Goldschmidt in Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2 57 The fact that exactly one-eighth of the males [sc. of a sample of gipsy moths] were intersexual corroborated strongly the Mendelian formula of sex-inheritance used by me, working with two pairs of sex factors.

1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 51 Intersexual males—i.e. animals which have started as males and been forced to finish their development as females.

1940 Chicago Med. School Q. 1 24/2 When confronted with intersexual patients, the physician should bear in mind..[that] we have..no rules to determine the possible combinations of male and female morphological characteristics with each other and with psychic properties in intersexual persons.

1965 Punch 10 Nov. 691/1 The intersexual goats are sterile.

2000 A. Fausto-Sterling Sexing Body iii. 54 Intersexual births occur with remarkably high frequency and may be on the increase.

2013 Cape Argus (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 2 Nov. 13 The legislative change..is designed to allow intersexual people to determine their sex later in life.

c1910 ‘X. Mayne’ Intersexes x. 521 The club..lost its case wholly, so convincing was the evidence that the members were lesbians... Had a similar result occurred as to a club of male intersexuals there would have been arrests right and left, as the suit ended.

1917 R. Goldschmidt in Endocrinology 1 438 With the male of race P [sc. of gipsy moths], all would-be females will be high grade intersexuals, almost transformed into males.

1930 Jrnl. Organotherapy 14 183/2 Various cases diagnosed as pseudo-hermaphroditism..must be in reality true hermaphroditism incompletely studied. To this group belonged without doubt an intersexual who was exhibited at fairs in Spain.

1970 Guardian 7 Jan. 7/3 With..intersexuals, the problem begins at birth, for in rare cases it is uncertain from the genital organs whether a baby is a boy or a girl.

2006 Independent 8 Aug. (Extra section) 10/4 The continuing struggle to be free to think outside of the male/female boxes and to speak up for intersexuals—by challenging the medical and legal hegemony—has been and continues to be the biggest challenge of my life.