Are there any links between intersex conditions and transsexualism or homosexuality?
No more than among the rest of the population. However, the founders of UKIA know first hand what it means to be a child who is ‘different’ in a school where being so can sometimes place one outside the security of the group. Thankfully, most members of the intersex community, in spite of many other problems, grow up in a role where their gender identity is reflected and supported by their nurturing. Others, however, know only too well the extra pain of being brought up in a gender role at odds with their inborn sense of self. This serves to add a further burden to the potential vulnerability of the intersex individual. Caught in this trap, some people have no alternative but to attempt to ‘fit in’ as best they can, for as long as they can and conform to an identity and life-style that is constantly at odds with the truth. This dichotomy should not be confused with the condition of ‘transsexualism’ where an individual is entirely of one sex phenotype, but feels that their outer appeara
