Editing Cisgender (section)

=== From intersex organizations ===
{{See also|Intersex|Endosex}}

[[Intersex]] people are born with atypical physical sex characteristics that can complicate initial sex assignment and lead to involuntary or coercive medical treatment.<ref name="Dreger">{{cite book |last = Domurat Dreger |first = Alice|authorlink=Alice Dreger |title = Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex |year = 2001 |publisher = Harvard University Press |location = US |isbn = 978-0-674-00189-3 }}</ref><ref name="jointun">{{cite book|url=https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241507325|title=Eliminating forced, coercive and otherwise involuntary sterilization, An interagency statement|publisher=[[World Health Organization]]|date=May 2014|isbn=978 92 4 150732 5}}</ref> The term cisgender "can get confusing" in relation to people with intersex conditions, although some intersex people use the term according to the [[Interact Advocates for Intersex Youth]] Inter/Act project.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://interactyouth.org/post/97343969730/inter-act-has-been-working-with-mtvs-faking-it-on|date=2014|url-status=usurped|title=What is Intersex: An Intersex FAQ by Inter/Act|website=Inter/Act|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140916025255/http://interactyouth.org/post/97343969730/inter-act-has-been-working-with-mtvs-faking-it-on|archivedate=September 16, 2014}}</ref> [[Hida Viloria]] of [[Intersex Campaign for Equality]] notes that, as a person born with an intersex body who has a non-binary sense of gender identity that "matches" their body, they are both cisgender and gender non-conforming, presumably opposites according to ''cisgender''{{'s}} definition, and that this evidences the term's basis on a binary sex model that does not account for intersex people's existence. Viloria also critiques the fact that the term ''sex assigned at birth'' is used in one of ''cisgender''{{'s}} definitions without noting that babies are assigned male or female regardless of intersex status in most of the world, stating that doing so obfuscates the birth of intersex babies and frames gender identity within a binary male/female sex model that fails to account for both the existence of natally congruent gender non-conforming gender identities, and gender-based discrimination against intersex people based on natal sex characteristics rather than on gender identity or expression, such as "normalizing" [[Intersex medical interventions|infant genital surgeries]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Caught in the Gender Binary Blind Spot: Intersex Erasure in Cisgender Rhetoric|url=https://hidaviloria.com/caught-in-the-gender-binary-blind-spot-intersex-erasure-in-cisgender-rhetoric/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112023646/https://hidaviloria.com/caught-in-the-gender-binary-blind-spot-intersex-erasure-in-cisgender-rhetoric/ |archivedate=November 12, 2020|first=Hida|last=Viloria|authorlink=Hida Viloria|date=August 18, 2014}}</ref>