Intersex Awareness

Every year, the LGBT Resource Center plans and implements programs that are aimed at increasing awareness of historically under-represented identities and experiences within our community.  Intersex Awareness programs for the academic year 2012-2013 are being planned by Sheri Atkinson and elizabeth krause.  Feel free to contact either Sheri (slatkinson@ucdavis.edu) or elizabeth (eakrause@ucdavis.edu) with any questions. 

The LGBT Resource Center library has an assortment of books and films in our library with more information about intersex identities and experiences, as well as a resource binder with more information on how to be an ally to the intersex community.

Forms of intersex can include, but are not limited to: 5-alpha reductase deficiency, Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS), Aphallia, Clitoromegally (large clitoris), Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH), gonadal dysgenesis (partial & complete), hypospadias, Klinefelter Syndrome, micropenis, mosaicism involving “sex” chromosomes, MRKH (Mullerian agenesis; vaginal agenesis; cong...enital absence of vagina), ovo-testes (formerly called “true hermaphroditism”), Partial Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (PAIS), penile raphe, Progestin Induced Virilization, Swyer Syndrome, Turner Syndrome