I am an intersex woman

I am biologically female and male. I have chimerism. I had to get part of my ovotestes taken out ( one ovarian tissue and two testicular tissues taken out because they became cancerous. Also my semeniferous tubules and fallopian tubes on one side were taken out. I may no longer have internal testicles but I still have dna cells mixed with xx and xy chromosomes. I absorbed my would have been twin brother in the womb early. Doctors call it differences of sex development which I prefer to disorders of sex development. Or you can call intersex variations. We used to be called hermaphrodites, but that is considered to be rude to say and medically inaccurate and stigmatizing. I don’t mind that word it is what people know. I identify as a woman though and live as a woman because I am female bodied and I take no offense to someone assuming I’m just female. I am addressed as miss or ma’am and it doesn’t bother me. I feel awkward with this new trend of asking people’s pronouns and how they identify at first meeting. I picked one sex to live by which was my predominant sex to make things easy but of course I tell my doctors for physical health and my mental health team what I am. People do not know much about intersex people and sometimes are surprised because they never heard of us. I am the only one in my family that I know of who is intersex. My family continues to treat me like a girl regardless of what my mixed biological sex said. If anyone asks I use she/her pronouns and go by feminine terms of address like miss, ma’ am, madam or ms. Or simply my name Ashley or nickname Ash for short. The world perceives me as female and to be fair that is what I look and sound like. People have ears and eyes. I am a passing intersex woman so I’m grateful my features are not androgynous to make it hard to tell. Being intersex is not the same thing as being transgender or non binary gender diverse people. Intersex is biological sex not gender identity.