{ "model": { "rank": 4011, "code": "thing-q1097630", "model_id": "vr.tr.intersex", "name": "intersex", "purpose": "Let an agent explain intersex respectfully, relay terminology, variations, prevalence, human rights and medical debates from human rights, medical and intersex advocacy sources with positions attributed, describe the terminology and flag the fictional alias, and distinguish intersex from gender identity, sexual orientation, transgender and the fictional genre, without stereotyping.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.QLT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q1097630/", "tier": 2, "score": 79, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "human hermaphroditism", "futanari", "intersex condition" ], "aliasCount": 3, "merged": 3, "knownIn": 79, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q1097630", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1097630", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-14T01:45:58Z", "providers": [ "Claude" ], "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify", "pass": 2, "wave": 4, "engine": "claude" }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q1097630", "registryId": "vr.tr.intersex", "name": "intersex", "version": "0.2.0-wave.4", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.QLT" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1097630/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.intersex", "name": "intersex", "purpose": "Let an agent explain intersex respectfully, relay terminology, variations, prevalence, human rights and medical debates from human rights, medical and intersex advocacy sources with positions attributed, describe the terminology and flag the fictional alias, and distinguish intersex from gender identity, sexual orientation, transgender and the fictional genre, without stereotyping.", "definition": "A term for people born with sex characteristics such as chromosomes, gonads, hormones or genitals that do not fit typical binary notions of male or female, an umbrella covering many variations of sex characteristics, also called differences of sex development in clinical settings; the older term hermaphroditism is now generally avoided for people, and futanari, listed in registry aliases, is a genre of Japanese fiction and not a description of real intersex people, so it appears misfiled. Intersex traits are natural variations, not necessarily medical problems, and human rights bodies have raised concerns about non-consensual surgery on intersex children, while positions of advocates, clinicians and others are attributed. The model uses respectful language and avoids conflating intersex with gender identity or sexual orientation.", "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable; a range of natural sex characteristic variations.", "affordances": [ "explain terminology respectfully", "relay variations and prevalence", "present rights and medical debates with attribution", "flag the fictional alias" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Sex characteristic variation", "Umbrella term", "Natural variation", "Rights concerns over surgery" ], "appearance": "Not a single appearance; a diverse range of bodily variations, often not outwardly visible.", "visual_identification": [ "Variations of sex characteristics outside typical binary categories", "Human hermaphroditism, futanari, intersex condition", "Gender identity is one s own sense of gender; sexual orientation is attraction; transgender concerns gender identity; futanari is fiction" ], "physical_properties": [ { "quantity": "prevalence estimates", "typical_range": "vary widely by definition", "unit": "note", "note": "attributed" }, { "quantity": "clinical term", "typical_range": "differences of sex development", "unit": "note", "note": "" }, { "quantity": "registry parents", "typical_range": "LGBTQ+ identity, non-binary sex", "unit": "note", "note": "debated framing" } ], "families_and_kinds": [ "chromosomal variations", "gonadal variations", "hormonal variations such as androgen insensitivity", "anatomical variations" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is related to", "target": "differences of sex development", "why": "clinical term" }, { "relation": "is contrasted with", "target": "gender identity", "why": "" }, { "relation": "is contrasted with", "target": "transgender", "why": "" }, { "relation": "is contrasted with", "target": "futanari", "why": "fictional genre, misfiled" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "UN and Council of Europe statements on intersex rights", "Medical guidelines on differences of sex development", "Bans on non-consensual intersex surgery in some jurisdictions" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Conflating intersex with gender or orientation", "Using outdated or fictional terms for people", "Partisan framing of surgery debates" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "understand", "name": "Understand", "description": "What intersex means.", "rationale": "Attribution.", "layers": [ { "id": "definition", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-finding", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does intersex mean, and how does it differ from gender identity, sexual orientation, transgender and the fictional genre?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Is a parent or person seeking clinical or peer support, in which case specialist clinicians and intersex support organisations can help?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "terminology", "name": "Terminology", "description": "Terminology.", "findings": [ { "id": "terminology-finding", "name": "Terminology", "description": "Terminology.", "questions": [ { "text": "Why is hermaphroditism avoided for people, and why is futanari not about real intersex people?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the specific term?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "biology", "name": "Biology", "description": "Variations.", "rationale": "Science.", "layers": [ { "id": "variations", "name": "Variations", "description": "Types of variation.", "findings": [ { "id": "variations-finding", "name": "Variations", "description": "Variations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What kinds of chromosomal, gonadal and hormonal variations exist?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "prevalence", "name": "Prevalence", "description": "Prevalence.", "findings": [ { "id": "prevalence-finding", "name": "Prevalence", "description": "Prevalence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Why do prevalence estimates vary with definition, with figures attributed?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "text": "Which sources are cited?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights", "description": "Human rights.", "rationale": "Attribution.", "layers": [ { "id": "surgery", "name": "Surgery", "description": "Non-consensual surgery.", "findings": [ { "id": "surgery-finding", "name": "Surgery", "description": "Surgery.", "questions": [ { "text": "What do intersex advocates, clinicians and human rights bodies say about surgery on intersex children, with positions attributed?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the presentation neutral, respectful and attributed?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "law", "name": "Law", "description": "Legal recognition.", "findings": [ { "id": "law-finding", "name": "Law", "description": "Law.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do some countries protect intersex people or restrict surgery, checked against current sources?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the information current?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "context", "name": "Context", "description": "Community.", "rationale": "Attribution.", "layers": [ { "id": "community", "name": "Community", "description": "Advocacy.", "findings": [ { "id": "community-finding", "name": "Community", "description": "Community.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do intersex organisations describe their aims and preferred language?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the presentation respectful?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "awareness", "name": "Awareness", "description": "Awareness.", "findings": [ { "id": "awareness-finding", "name": "Awareness", "description": "Awareness.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is Intersex Awareness Day?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits Intersex Awareness Day?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "The registry alias futanari should be moved to fiction genre entries", "How should intersex and DSD framings be reconciled respectfully?", "How should prevalence estimates be attributed?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a intersex, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain intersex respectfully, relay terminology, variations, prevalence, human rights and medical debates from human rights, medical and intersex advocacy sources with positions attributed, describe the terminology and flag the fictional alias, and distinguish intersex from gender identity, sexual orientation, transgender and the fictional genre, without stereotyping.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: human hermaphroditism, futanari, intersex condition.", "3 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 79 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a intersex, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "human hermaphroditism", "futanari", "intersex condition" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 79 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 3 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one intersex from another, and a intersex from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a intersex, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a intersex, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a intersex is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a intersex, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a intersex, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a intersex is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a intersex sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a intersex, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a intersex, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a intersex is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a intersex from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a intersex, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a intersex, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a intersex is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a intersex passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a intersex between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a intersex, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a intersex, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a intersex is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a intersex, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a intersex is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a intersex, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a intersex, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a intersex is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What intersex is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of intersex are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is intersex operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of intersex and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of intersex?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as intersex?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a intersex came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a intersex and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a intersex, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a intersex, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a intersex is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a intersex is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a intersex, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a intersex, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a intersex is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }