Reply #25: I believe the issue with the term is that as a clinical term it does have value

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a negative one. The fact that it is a clinical term indicates that it carries a stigma that defines someone's body as being in a pathological state which needs to be "cured". Clinical terms aren't always value free. Pathologizing sexuality has a long history in medicine and psychiatry.

Intersexed was an alternative term used by activists so that they could have identity available to them that could be self-chosen rather than diagnosed.