• hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    It is used in a medical/scientific context, but most intersex people consider it bad, as it only used to refer to people until fairly recently (19th century I think?). When talking about species that can reproduce by themselves (like slugs or some plants), I’ve heard the word cosexual is preferred.