ABSTRACT
Disorders of sex development (DSDs) were defined as “congenital conditions within which the development of chromosomal, gonadal, and anatomic sex is atypical” at a meeting of the International Consensus Conference on Intersex held in Chicago in 2005, which was then published as a Consensus Statement in 2006 [1,2]. Several criticisms followed this consensus, especially focusing on the negative perception of the term “disorder” – in the DSD acronym – and on the inaccuracy of some terminology employed in that consensus document. This has led some authors to stick with the DSD acronym but replacing Disorders with Differences [3].
