Money discusses what exactly intersexual means in medical terms: “By definition, intersexuality, and similarly its synonym, hermaphroditism, means ambiguity regarding whether an individual is male or female… ambiguity means that a person is consistently neither all male nor all female, but there is some degree of inconsistency or inconsistency between them” (28). Although the text is rather wordy in terms of medical jargon, it will be helpful for the reader to fully understand what intersexual means. It's important to touch on the medical side of things, to establish the basics of what intersexuality really is. This will be very useful in paragraph two: Definition of intersexuality and a brief discussion on the social construction of sex to describe what intersexuality is.