Monro, SuryaCarpenter, MorganCrocetti, DanielaDavis, GeorgiannGarland, FaeGriffiths, David AndrewHegarty, PeterTravis, MitchellCabral Grinspan, MauroAggleton, Peter2023-09-131369-1058http://hdl.handle.net/1885/299497Intersex has been a topic of much discussion in courses on sex and gender in the academy. Much of this discourse has centred on the nature of intersex and how far it challenges the categories of sex and gender. As Emi Koyama and Lisa Weasel pointed out in 2002, this form of academic appropriation risks diverting attention from important social justice issues towards trivial or reductive theorising about social construction. Academic enquiries into the oppression of people with intersex variations may only sometimes be helpful in bringing hegemonic forces of body normativity, prejudice and sex/gender norms into question.Funding to support the development of this issue of Culture, Health & Sexuality came from a grant provided by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement (Number 703352). We acknowledge and thank the funders.application/pdfen-AU© 2021 The authors202110.1080/13691058.2021.18995292022-07-31