The current situation of intersex persons in Malta : shifting away from the medical paradigm towards social justice

Abstract

An intersex person is born with physiological variation/s in the reproductive and sexual characteristics that typically fit within the archetypal normative male-female classification of human anatomy. These include people with atypical external or internal reproductive organs and/or having different sex chromosomes or hormones, which may be either apparent at birth or else manifest themselves later in life, usually around time of puberty.