What causes intersex?
The search for the things that causes intersex has lead medical practitioners to treat intersex differences like a sickness. OII Australia disagrees with this approach and holds that intersex is one of a number of physical differences in the spectrum of all the differences that are humanly possible. Medicine and sometimes science (the two are not always the same as science requires the use of the scientific method, something medicine is reluctant to do with intersex) have decided on a number of diagnostic categories that lead to intersex. OII knows from its membership that not everyone who falls within one of these categories is intersex. OII is also aware of other intersex differences that medicine does not recognize and many that it does that it does not fully understand. Some common diagnoses that may lead to intersex are: • 5-alpha reductase deficiency • Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) • Aphallia • Clitoromegaly • Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) • Gonadal dysgenesis, par
