Mixed-method research for child outcomes in intersex conditions.

Intersex encompasses a range of inborn errors of metabolism and dysmorphisms, having in common anomalous genitalia. The neonatal diagnosis may be unclear but genital atypia is not. Reconstructive surgery has been the standard of care for more than four decades. Although the conditions are ageless, selfdescriptions of long-term effects are rare, as are the anomalies themselves. For the purposes of this discussion, neonatal genital appearance is meant to reflect inadequate androgen effects in genetic males or inappropriate androgen effects in genetic females. This discussion briefly describes what is known about children’s experiences of and with intersex and intersex treatments, and how such experiences are knowable.