Editing Heteronormativity (section)

===Intersex people===
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[[intersexuality|Intersex]] people have biological characteristics that are ambiguously either male or female. If such a condition is detected, intersex people in most present-day societies are almost always assigned a normative sex shortly after birth.<ref>Fausto-Sterling, Anne. 2000. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. New York: Basic Books.{{pn|date=February 2021}}</ref> Surgery (usually involving modification to the genitalia) is often performed in an attempt to produce an unambiguously male or female body, with the parents'—rather than the individual's—consent.<ref>[[Judith Butler|Butler, Judith]]. 2004. ''[[Undoing Gender]]''. New York: Routledge.</ref> The child is then usually raised and enculturated as a [[cisgender]] [[heterosexual]] member of the [[sex assignment|assigned sex]], which may or may not match their emergent [[gender identity]] throughout life or some remaining [[sex characteristics]] (for example, chromosomes, genes or internal sex organs).<ref>Wilchins, Riki. 2002. 'A certain kind of freedom: power and the truth of bodies – four essays on gender.' In GenderQueer: Voices from beyond the sexual binary. Los Angeles: Alyson Books 23–66.</ref>