There are many different kinds of intersexuals. Intersexuality is not a dangerous medical condition, although it is treated as one by physicians. An intersexual's sex organs may or may not be fully functional, but they are dangerous only to society's need to pigeonhole individual's gender identity. Since the 1950's physicians have routinely treated intersexual infants as medical emergencies. They counsel uninformed parents to assign a gender, usually female, to the infant.
Physicians then perform mutilating surgery on infants only hours old.
The only goal of this surgery is to assign a gender and the side affects that result are catastrophic including urinal disorders, partial or total loss of sexual functioning, pain, and recurrent infections. Typically intersexuals are not told of their birth status, their surgeries, or the cause of the resulting medical problems. The gender community, led by adult intersexuals, are advocating an end to surgery on infants. They advocate instead social acceptance and understanding of intersexuality and transgender persons, counseling for parents and intersexual children, and surgery only upon the informed consent of the patient. Transgender is transcending gender assumptions.