Intersexphobia refers to an oppressive social construction which situates some combination of power, wealth, privilege and prestige in person who are not intersexed (having variations in sex development). The intersexed include those who were previously called hermaphrodites and those with atypical sex chromosones. Intersexphobia is, first, a category of heteronormativity and, second, a category of ableism or, more specifically, of ablebodism. It is related to , or identical iwth, homochromosexuality. An example of intersexphobia may include the instance when feminist Germaine Greer referred to Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome women in her book 'The Whole Woman' as 'defective males' and the bigotry directed against the South African runner who was barred from racing against other females due to her alleged intersexuality. The medical community's surgical mutilation on the bodies of the intersexed is a form of institutionalised intersexphobia. Experiments done on intersexed folks by 'researchers' such as John Money and Milton Diamond are examples of intersexphobia.
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