Hello Martin, thank you for your kind words.

“Intersexual” — I did not use that word, so I wonder what you are asking in your comment?

Nearly the entire essay outlined ways in which we can be intersex. But the thrust of the essay was that our bodies do not determine who we are as people, this falls to our minds (or some would say, our souls). Yet like many things, this begs more questions, still anything to do with our mind must also consider the biology of our brains as this is the matrix for our minds. We are magnificently formed with basic “wiring” and throughout our lives, this wiring is modified by our inner and outer experiences. That is one reason there is such controversy with gender identity and expression: it is both nature and nurture, even though the science points to a foundation for gender in our biology. Put another way, and using me as an example, I have always been a female person, but I had to develop into a woman: most female people become women through their girlhood and adolescence, but this female person has become through her transgender/intersex** nature and gender affirmation.

**(I inhabit the blurry space between transsexual and intersex due to endocrine disruption in gestation — I was exposed to DES (diethylstilbestrol) when I was forming in my mother’s womb.)