intersexualize

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English

Etymology

intersexual +‎ -ize

Verb

intersexualize (third-person singular simple present intersexualizes, present participle intersexualizing, simple past and past participle intersexualized)

  1. (rare, nonstandard) Synonym of intersex (to make intersexual, to make intersex)
    • 1957, Journal of the Institute of Polytechnics, Osaka City University: Biology:
      On the other hand, in Ambystoma maculatum, it was reported by Burns ('39) that the effect induced by the administration of the same hormone is retained only to intersexualize the female gonad.
    • 2016, Lena Eckert, Intersexualization: The Clinic and the Colony, →ISBN:
      I argue that this pan-sexual potential which is materially erased in intersexualizing surgery has a homologue in ...