different between intersex vs tomboy

English

Etymology

From German Intersexe; corresponding to inter- +? sex.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??nt?s?ks/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??nt?s?ks/

Noun

intersex (plural intersexes)

1. Any of a variety of inherent conditions (in a dioecious species) whereby an individual has sex characteristics which differ from those of a typical male and female; for example, the state of having physical features relating to both male and female sexes; intersexuality.
   • 1953, Time, 23 Feb 1953:

     A Canadian believes that he has solved the diagnostic problem in human intersex. All human cells, says Dr. Murray L. Barr of the University of Western Ontario, contain something called sex chromatin.

   • 2007, Catherine Harper, Intersex, Berg (?ISBN), page 129:

     The British Association of Paediatric Surgeons Statement (2001) indicated that among the range of intersex conditions that particularly present with genital ambiguity are 'true hermaphroditism' and gonadal dysgenesis.

   • 2008, Emine Saner, The Guardian, 30 Jul 2008, G2, page 12:

     It is thought that around one in 1,000 babies are born with an "intersex" condition, the general term for people with chromosomal abnormalities.

2. (biology, zoology) An individual with any of these conditions.
   • 2009, Mary C Smith & David Sherman, Goat Medicine, page 609:

     An intersex, then, is an animal that shows both male and female characteristics.

Usage notes

• Since about the turn of the millennium (2000), the adjective intersex and noun phrase intersex person have been preferred to hermaphroditic and hermaphrodite as being more appropriate when the referent is human. The noun intersex has also become more common than intersexuality.

Translations

Adjective

intersex (not comparable)

1. (of an individual) Having an intersex condition.

   Antonym: endosex

   • 2006, Alice Domurate Dreger, “Intersex and Human Rights: The Long View”, in Sharon E. Sytsma (editor), Ethics and Intersex, Springer, ?ISBN, page 81:

     If you would not obfuscate the medical history of a person who was born without intersex, then you ought not to do so when dealing with a person born intersex.

   • 2006, Dean Spade, “Compliance Is Gendered: Struggling for Gender Self-Determination in a Hostile Economy”, Paisley Currah et al. (editors), Transgender Rights, University of Minnesota Press, ?ISBN, page 225:

     His confidentiality was broken, and soon the entire staff and residential population were aware that Jim was intersex. […] we faced the fact that most programs were gender segregated and would not be a safe place for Jim to be known as intersex.

   • 2010, Sean Saifa Wall, “I am the ‘I’”, in Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman (editors), Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, Seal Press, ?ISBN, page 109:

     When I had learned that I was intersex, I brought this issue to my mother.

   • 2010, The Age, 3 Jun 2010:

     A survey of 1100 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people by Griffith and Bond University researchers found that the overwhelming majority had been victims of targeted harassment as well as physical and sexual abuse.

Synonyms

• intersexed
• intersexual
• (sometimes offensive): hermaphroditic, hermaphrodite
• (clinical, sometimes offensive): pseudohermaphroditic, pseudohermaphrodite
• (on forms and documents): indeterminate, X

Antonyms

• dyadic
• endosex

Derived terms

• intersexed
• intersexuality

Translations

Verb

intersex (third-person singular simple present intersexes, present participle intersexing, simple past and past participle intersexed)

1. (nonstandard) To make intersex.
   • 2013, Patrick Colm Hogan, Ulysses and the Poetics of Cognition (?ISBN), page 176:

     The point is significant in light of current political issues surrounding real intersexed individuals. [...] It is clearly the case that physical intersexing and psychological androgyny do not conform to sex and gender norms in society. [...]

   Synonym: intersexualize

Translations

See also

• hermaphroditism; pseudohermaphroditism
• androgynous
• bigender; ambigender

English

Alternative forms

• tom boy

Etymology

First attested in Ralph Roister Doister (published 1567, written circa 1552), where it is used to describe a boisterous girl; the OED says the citation is however "generally taken" to mean a boisterous boy, and says that a use in The Old Law (published 1656, thought to have been written circa 1599) "certainly" means a boy: "must young court-tits / play tomboys' tricks with her?" By 1579 it was attested in the meaning "an immodest woman", and by no later than 1592 it had developed its modern meaning of a “girl who acts like a boy”; from tom +? boy.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?m.b??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?m.b??/

Noun

tomboy (plural tomboys)

1. A girl who behaves in a typically boyish manner.

   Synonyms: hoyden, ladette, romp

   Antonym: (with regards to behaviour) girly girl

   Antonym: (with regards to gender) macho man

   Antonym: (with regards to gender and behaviour) femboy

2. (Philippines, colloquial) A lesbian.

Translations

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: tomboy
• ? Tagalog: tomboy

See also

• tomgirl

Further reading

• tomboy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English tomboy.

Noun

tomboy

1. a girl who behaves in a typically boyish manner
2. a lesbian

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tomboy.

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English tomboy.

Noun

tomboy

1. (colloquial) a boyish girl
   • 1973, Liwayway

     Si Trudy, gaya ng palayaw sa kanya, ay isang tomboy. Sa kanilang lugar, walang batang lalaking nakadaig sa kanya sa ano mang uri ng sports.

     Trudy, like her nickname, is a tomboy. In their neighborhood, the boys cannot even beat her in any sports.

   • 1968, Dionisio S. Salazar, Pitong dula

     Sa suot niyang " kamisadentrong panlalaki at "pedal-pusher" na maong ay wala siyang iniwan sa isang "tomboy". (Palinga-linga silang dalawa na tila may hinahanap. Pagtapat sa may puno ng adelpa ay titigil sila.)

     He did not leave the undershirt and "pedal-pusher" jeans to a tomboy (They are looking to the left and right like they are finding something. They will stop when they face the oleander tree.)

2. (colloquial) a lesbian

Synonyms

• (a lesbian): tibo