endosex

English

Etymology

From endo- +‎ sex. Coined as a counterpart to intersex by Heike Bödeker in 2000 (in English, following Bödeker's coinage of German endosexuell in 1999).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛn.doʊ.sɛks/

Adjective

endosex (not comparable)

1. (neologism) Not intersex; born with sex characteristics that are considered typically male or female.

   Synonyms: dyadic, perisex

   Antonym: intersex

   • 2000 June 30, Heike Bödeker, "Symposium on intersexuality", at the European Federation of Sexology Congress in Berlin, Germany:

     Intersex as an ostentation of the endosex group phantasy.

   • 2019, J. E. Sumerau, Lain A.B. Mathers, America through Transgender Eyes, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 139:

     DOING ENDOSEX
     Alongside increased attention to and debate about sexual and gender diversity, more equitable social relations require serious attention to the ways social authorities do or construct the sex categories that provide the basis for doing gender and sexualities. Although many endosex people—regardless of gender or sexuality identity—treat sex as something people possess as a straightforward categorization of genital shape and appearance, these beliefs rely upon a simplification of biological diversity that negatively impacts […] intersex people.

   • 2020, Alexandra C. H. Nowakowski, J. E. Sumerau, Nik M. Lampe, Transformations in Queer, Trans, and Intersex Health and Aging, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 7:

     Scholars refer to those people who “fit neatly” into these male/female exclusive categorizations as endosex. Endosex people are assigned male or female, and often think very little about this assignment—or the possibility that it was incorrect in any biologically empirical way—throughout their lives unless something unexpected forces them to consider it.

   • 2021, Abbie E. Goldberg, Genny Beemyn, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies, SAGE Publications, Incorporated, →ISBN, page 237:

     [S]ocial authorities generally design and disseminate selective versions of science, religion, and media that emphasize some elements of social life (e.g., cis experience, hetero- and monosexuality, upper=class experience, endosex [i.e., non-intersex] categorization and downplay or otherwise erase other aspects of social life (e.g., Blackness or other non-white racial experience, trans experience, […]

   • 2021, Dirk vom Lehn, Natalia Ruiz-Junco, Will Gibson, The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism, Routledge, →ISBN:

     A second pathway may be found in recent work published on the ways endosex (i.e., those assigned male or female by society) people respond to the existence of intersex people (Sumerau and Cragun, 2018).

Derived terms

• endosexism