How to pronounce “intersex” in English

Intersex belongs where?

Some intersex traits are identified at birth, while others may be may not be discovered until puberty or later in life.

And intersex bodies at most, or intersex conditions, might be a footnote, but it's not really on the map at all.

And intersex people are intersex people.

might be for intersex folk.

"People with intersex traits have always existed, but there is more awareness now about the diversity of human bodies people with intersex bodies,

Probably because you're intersex.

Probably because you're intersex."

speak of one's intersex condition unless absolutely necessary.

What did being intersex mean in terms of my sexuality?

If I was intersex, could I also be a woman or a man?

And we get to Intersex.

But I guess with intersex, it can be quite handy.

Chris could be intersex.

It's "Queer Embodiment-- Medical Violence and Intersex"-- sorry, "Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience" on University of Nebraska Press,

the most active and vibrant intersex advocacy organization in the United States at this moment, although they work on a transnational scale.

There are over 30 specific intersex variations, and each intersex person is different."

existentially with the shock of an intersex diagnosis, and was self medicating with many other substances to cope, or rather not cope, with these substantial shifts in my body

This is in part why many intersex folks, myself included, are hesitant to mention their status as intersex unless rather necessary."

We're constantly taught that intersex embodiment and intersex modes of being are basically an impossibility, or at best a pathology that needs to be corrected.

And that was a clinic that saw intersex children and infants, and that also treated trans adults,

So I mention that because intersex history and trans history, if we're thinking about medical institutions specifically, are really, really deeply interwoven.

So when you're an intersex infant or child, and you're subject to these forms of coercive medical trauma, up to and including clitoridectomy, that also

So that means that many intersex adults-- many intersex youth and adults-- have this sort of long standing complex PTSD because

So silent shame and stigma around intersex conditions.

Or because they've been taught that intersex bodies are in some ways impossibilities or monstrous, freakish.

And I actually never heard about intersex conditions except through popular comedy where there were jokes being made about hermaphroditic bodies.

without actually saying it and making it intersex inclusive.

I'm wondering about-- as intersex activism and awareness increases over time, how you currently

happened because of consortiums of intersex people, parents of intersex children and physicians working together to shift the paradigm, medically.

I have a different experience from an intersex person.

"Queer Embodiment" joins a small shelf of important work in critical intersex studies in beautifully written, lucidly argued, theoretically

So this is a pretty broad definition of intersex from InterACT-- Advocates for Intersex Youth, which is probably

"I was 16 when I first received an intersex diagnosis, though that wasn't the terminology used.

dimorphic understanding of embodiment and to posit the intersex patient as already well on their way toward one or the other of two

"This set of protocols springs from an entrenched perception of intersex bodies as natural errors.

Within the schema, intersex bodies are inevitably failures falling short of the dyadic natural forms of maleness and femaleness.

So this is a running and incomplete list of intersex injustices.

And not everybody is born visibly mixed sex who has an intersex condition.

So if medical professionals find out you're intersex, there's a large apparatus of doctors that are willing to offer you hormonal

So when I think about what social justice for intersex folks might look like, the first thing is informed consent and bodily autonomy

when I was 16 and I was diagnosed with an intersex condition, and then I was offered this sort of normalizing therapy for my body,

and gender schematics because it ruins our days if you're intersex and trans.

So I think some of the most promising intersex activism has to do-- and I do a little bit of this work--

Intersex. Intersex.

So there's a whole idea about transgender kids are those kids who are born intersex or hermaphrodite.

But the statistical sort of reference that gets used most often these days is intersex conditions,

"That was when I began to ask myself if I could inhabit a specifically intersex identity.

which means that some of the surgical procedures that were being utilized on intersex infants were then refined and used on trans adults.