with respect to humans. This led to the Chicago Consensus, recommending a new terminology based on the umbrella term disorders of sex development. However, intersex people have continued to prefer the term "intersex" over "DSD" by large margins. Other than disorders of sex development, another term is congenital conditions of sex development (CCSD). Since 2006, people who were previously incorrectly categorized as hermaphrodites are now labelled as having ovotesticular syndrome.

DSDs are