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endosex (EN-doh-seks) - adj., not intersex, that is having sex characteristics that are considered typically male or typically female.
Just as having the word transgender made it useful to coin cisgender and homosexual made it useful to coin hetereosexual, having intersex made it useful to coin endosex. Coined in 1999 in German by Heike Bödeker from Ancient Greek root éndon, inner + -sex, on the pattern of intersex (which interestingly was also originally coined in German), and first used in English by Bödeker in 2000. As with also recent ceterosexual, there are proposed alternative terms, dyadic and perisex, but as far as I can tell endsex is most common among intersex people (at least in the US).
---L.
Just as having the word transgender made it useful to coin cisgender and homosexual made it useful to coin hetereosexual, having intersex made it useful to coin endosex. Coined in 1999 in German by Heike Bödeker from Ancient Greek root éndon, inner + -sex, on the pattern of intersex (which interestingly was also originally coined in German), and first used in English by Bödeker in 2000. As with also recent ceterosexual, there are proposed alternative terms, dyadic and perisex, but as far as I can tell endsex is most common among intersex people (at least in the US).
---L.
