are intersexual people gay people as well? what is the difference?
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Intersex people, like anyone, can have any gender and any sexual orientation. Some intersex people are also LGBTQA+, and others are not. Intersex people are born with differences in their chromosomes, genitals, or reproductive anatomy, compared to the usual two ways that bodies develop. Most children with intersex anatomy, regardless of how their bodies look, are raised in either male or female gender roles. And many intersex people do grow up with a gender identity that aligns with how they were raised: male or female. This means that intersex people can be cisgender, straight.
Intersex people are born with sex characteristics such as genitals, gonads, and chromosome patterns that “do not fit the typical definitions for male or female bodies”. They are substantially more likely to identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) than the non-intersex population, Although many intersex people are heterosexual and cisgender, this overlap and “shared experiences of harm arising from dominant societal sex and gender norms” has led to intersex people often being included under the LGBT umbrella, with the acronym sometimes expanded to LGBTI.