People have sexual characteristics. A person’s physical sex is made up of anatomically visible external characteristics (e.g. penis or vulva) as well as internal sexual characteristics, hormones and chromosomes. Both on a medical level and in terms of social norms, gender is not unambiguous and the definition of what/who is a woman or a man, for example, changes culturally and historically.
Since September 2020, there have been six options for registering the gender of intersex people in the civil status register in Austria: “female”, “male”, “inter”, “diverse”, “open” or “no specification (field remains empty)”
Intersex / Inter* refers to people with variations in gender characteristics. Intersex people do not correspond to the “classic” ideas of purely female or male bodies.
➪ Über Inter* / VIMÖ