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=== Intersex inclusion === {{main|Intersex and LGBT}} Those who add [[intersex]] people to LGBT groups or organizations may use the extended initialism '''{{dfn|LGBTI}}''' <ref>William L. Maurice, Marjorie A. Bowman, [https://books.google.com/books?id=HX9HAAAAMAAJ Sexual medicine in primary care] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906150820/https://books.google.com/books?id=HX9HAAAAMAAJ |date=6 September 2015 }}, Mosby Year Book, 1999, {{ISBN|978-0-8151-2797-0}}</ref><ref name="Challenging Lesbian Nor"/> or '''{{dfn|LGBTIQ}}'''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.voanews.com/a/trans-women-march-for-their-rights-in-conservative-indonesia/4894550.html|title=Trans Women March for Their Rights in Conservative Indonesia|last=Siddharta|first=Amanda|date=28 April 2019|website=VOA|language=en|access-date=28 April 2019|archive-date=28 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428120725/https://www.voanews.com/a/trans-women-march-for-their-rights-in-conservative-indonesia/4894550.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The relationship of [[intersex]] to lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans, and queer communities is complex,<ref>{{cite web |last=Dreger |first=Alice |title=Reasons to Add and Reasons NOT to Add "I" (Intersex) to LGBT in Healthcare |date=4 May 2015 |access-date=8 May 2021 |url=https://www.aamc.org/download/431576/data/reasonsdeck.pdf |publisher=[[Association of American Medical Colleges]] |archive-date=9 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160609230211/https://www.aamc.org/download/431576/data/reasonsdeck.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> but intersex people are often added to the LGBT category to create an LGBTI community. Some intersex people prefer the initialism ''LGBTI'', while others would rather that they not be included as part of the term.<ref name="Challenging Lesbian Nor">{{cite book | last=Aragon | first=Angela Pattatuchi | title=Challenging Lesbian Norms: Intersex, Transgender, Intersectional, and Queer Perspectives | publisher=Haworth Press | year=2006 | isbn=978-1-56023-645-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=usruybRjfMUC | access-date=5 July 2008 | archive-date=22 November 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121122110205/http://books.google.com/books?id=usruybRjfMUC | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Fenway Guide">{{cite book |last1=Makadon |first1=Harvey J. |first2=Kenneth H. |last2=Mayer |first3=Jennifer |last3=Potter |first4=Hilary |last4=Goldhammer |title=The Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health |publisher=ACP Press |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-930513-95-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VsRwtwb-He8C |access-date=2 July 2015 |archive-date=6 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906161311/https://books.google.com/books?id=VsRwtwb-He8C |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Emi Koyama]] describes how inclusion of intersex in ''LGBTI'' can fail to address intersex-specific human rights issues, including creating false impressions "that intersex people's rights are protected" by laws protecting LGBT people, and failing to acknowledge that many intersex people are not LGBT.<ref>{{cite web| last = Koyama| first = Emi| title = Adding the "I": Does Intersex Belong in the LGBT Movement?| work = Intersex Initiative| url = http://www.intersexinitiative.org/articles/lgbti.html| access-date = 18 May 2016| archive-date = 17 May 2016| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160517075057/http://www.intersexinitiative.org/articles/lgbti.html| url-status = live}}</ref> [[Organisation Intersex International Australia]] states that some intersex individuals are same-sex attracted, and some are heterosexual, but "LGBTI activism has fought for the rights of people who fall outside of expected binary sex and gender norms".<ref>{{cite web | title = Intersex for allies | url = http://oii.org.au/allies | date = 21 November 2012 | access-date = 18 May 2016 | archive-date = 7 June 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160607042937/http://oii.org.au/allies/ | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>[http://gaynewsnetwork.com.au/news/oii-releases-new-resource-on-intersex-issues-13999.html OII releases new resource on intersex issues] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606202143/http://gaynewsnetwork.com.au/news/oii-releases-new-resource-on-intersex-issues-13999.html |date=6 June 2014 }}, ''Intersex for allies'' and ''Making services intersex inclusive'' by Organisation Intersex International Australia, via Gay News Network, 2 June 2014.</ref> [[Julius Kaggwa]] of SIPD [[Uganda]] has written that, while the gay community "offers us a place of relative safety, it is also oblivious to our specific needs".<ref name="Kaggwa2016">{{Cite news| issn = 0261-3077| last = Kaggwa| first = Julius| title = I'm an intersex Ugandan β life has never felt more dangerous| work = [[The Guardian]]| access-date = 3 October 2016| date = 19 September 2016| url = https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/16/intersex-ugandan-lgbt-gay-rights-life-never-felt-more-dangerous?| archive-date = 6 October 2016| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161006015137/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/16/intersex-ugandan-lgbt-gay-rights-life-never-felt-more-dangerous| url-status = live}}</ref> Numerous studies have shown higher rates of same-sex attraction in intersex people,<ref name="mb1991" /><ref name="hast2010">{{Citation| publisher = The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum| last1 = Dreger| first1 = Alice| last2 = Feder| first2 = Ellen K| last3 = Tamar-Mattis| first3 = Anne| title = Preventing Homosexuality (and Uppity Women) in the Womb?| date = 29 June 2010| access-date = 18 May 2016| url = http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Bioethicsforum/Post.aspx?id=4754| archive-date = 2 April 2016| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160402051942/http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Bioethicsforum/Post.aspx?id=4754| url-status = live}}</ref> with a recent Australian study of people born with atypical sex characteristics finding that 52% of respondents were non-heterosexual,<ref name="oiijones">{{cite web | url = https://oii.org.au/30313/intersex-stories-statistics-australia/ | title = New publication "Intersex: Stories and Statistics from Australia" | work = [[Organisation Intersex International Australia]] | date = 3 February 2016 | access-date = 18 August 2016 | archive-date = 29 August 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160829033933/https://oii.org.au/30313/intersex-stories-statistics-australia/ | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name="jones2016">{{Cite book|publisher=Open Book Publishers |isbn=978-1-78374-208-0 |last1=Jones |first1=Tiffany |last2=Hart |first2=Bonnie |last3=Carpenter |first3=Morgan |last4=Ansara |first4=Gavi |last5=Leonard |first5=William |last6=Lucke |first6=Jayne |title=Intersex: Stories and Statistics from Australia |location=Cambridge, UK |date=2016 |access-date=2 February 2016 |url=http://oii.org.au/wp-content/uploads/key/Intersex-Stories-Statistics-Australia.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914152729/http://oii.org.au/wp-content/uploads/key/Intersex-Stories-Statistics-Australia.pdf |archive-date=14 September 2016 }}</ref> thus research on intersex subjects has been used to explore means of preventing homosexuality.<ref name="mb1991">{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1089/cap.1990.1.279| issn = 1044-5463| volume = 1| issue = 4| pages = 279β283| last = Meyer-Bahlburg| first = Heino F.L.| title = Will Prenatal Hormone Treatment Prevent Homosexuality?| journal = Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology| date = January 1990| quote = human studies of the effects of altering the prenatal hormonal milieu by the administration of exogenous hormones lend support to a prenatal hormone theory that implicates both androgens and estrogens in the development of gender preference ... it is likely that prenatal hormone variations may be only one among several factors influencing the development of sexual orientation}}</ref><ref name="hast2010" /> As an experience of being born with sex characteristics that do not fit social norms,<ref name="unfe-fact">{{cite web | author = <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> | publisher = United Nations [[Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights]] | title = Free & Equal Campaign Fact Sheet: Intersex | date = 2015 | url = https://unfe.org/system/unfe-65-Intersex_Factsheet_ENGLISH.pdf | access-date = 28 March 2016 | archive-date = 4 March 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304071043/https://unfe.org/system/unfe-65-Intersex_Factsheet_ENGLISH.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref> intersex can be distinguished from transgender,<ref name="coeres1952">[http://www.assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xref-XML2HTML-en.asp?fileid=20057&lang=en Children's right to physical integrity] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226081751/http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xref-XML2HTML-en.asp?fileid=20057&lang=en |date=26 December 2013 }}, [[Council of Europe]] Parliamentary Assembly, Report Doc. 13297, 6 September 2013.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://interactyouth.org/post/100048044990/laverne-cox-is-on-this-weeks-faking-it-in-honor |title=Trans? Intersex? Explained! |publisher=[[Advocates for Informed Choice#Inter/Act|Inter/Act]] |access-date=10 July 2013 |archive-date=18 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018091459/http://interactyouth.org/post/100048044990/laverne-cox-is-on-this-weeks-faking-it-in-honor |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://oii.org.au/18194/differences-intersex-trans/ |title=Basic differences between intersex and trans |publisher=[[Organisation Intersex International Australia]] |access-date=10 July 2013 |date=3 June 2011 |archive-date=4 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904081530/http://oii.org.au/18194/differences-intersex-trans/ |url-status=live }}</ref> while some intersex people are both intersex and transgender.<ref>{{Citation| publisher = Intersex Day| last = Cabral Grinspan| first = Mauro| author-link1 = Mauro Cabral| title = The marks on our bodies| date = 25 October 2015| url = http://intersexday.org/en/mauro-cabral-marks-bodies/| access-date = 4 October 2016| archive-date = 5 April 2016| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160405220557/http://intersexday.org/en/mauro-cabral-marks-bodies/| url-status = live}}</ref>
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