#endintersexsurgery

[whoneedssexed]

(Needs ID)

#intersexism #genital mutilation #intersex rights #genital cutting #cissexism #gender essentialism #biological sex #sex binary #endintersexsurgery #reposting because OP was an exclus who didn't even think intersex people were lgbt

[crossdreamers]

Coming Out as Intersex After Years of Keeping it a Secret

Shana Knizhnik explains why she's coming out publicly as intersex over at Teen Vogue:

She explains how the system tried to conceal the true nature of her being intersex and her androgen insensitivity syndrome, instilling a sense of shame in the process:

My parents had broken the news to me at age 11 that I would never have a monthly period, that I would not be able to have biological children, and that I would have to take hormonal supplements to go through puberty (and would need to continue to take them for the rest of my life). However, the reason why was never fully explained. There was some vague explanation about cancerous ovaries that had to be removed when I was a baby, but it didn’t fully add up. My parents also told me, as the doctors had told them, that I “didn’t have to tell anyone” about any of this. 

She formed her social identity around a particular image—that of a feminine, straight, cisgender girl, suppressing anything associated with being intersex. This also caused her to deny her attraction to women.

There is no real reason for shame here, as Shana points out:

As it turns out, there are many ways in which human beings can biologically deviate from these equations, resulting in a myriad of possible differences in genitalia, hormones, internal anatomy, and/or chromosomes. These differences do not usually pose a medical threat to intersex people; rather, it is the perceived threat to society intersex bodies pose—namely, to the rigid gender binary that defines so much about how we treat individuals—that has caused the Western medical establishment to historically view our bodies as a problem to be fixed, as a reality to be erased, rather than as a set of natural variations as common (by some calculations) as having red hair.

Meeting other intersex people helped her immensely. She mentions the role of   InterACT, an intersex advocacy organization that is   increasing intersex awareness:

We must engage in sustained activism to #EndIntersexSurgery, and pass laws like New York City Council Bill 1748-2019 that seek to increase public awareness and outreach around these issues. We must change the medical system that results in intersex people self-reporting disproportionately worse health outcomes than the general population. We must also stand with our transgender siblings and fight against countless laws that target them, and also implicate intersex people like myself, including so-called “bathroom bills” that attempt to police restrooms on the basis of “biological sex,” as well as fight against a system that perpetuates violence against trans women in particular at alarming rates.

Read the whole text here!

See also: Amazing TED talk on the way the strict gender binary harms us, by XY intersex woman Emily Quinn

Photo from Instagram.

#intersex #lgbtqai #lgbt #transgender #trans #bathroom bills #dsd #gender binary #endintersexsurgery

[teenvogue]

These Young Intersex People Want You to Know That They Exist

On Saturday, October 27, intersex people and their allies gathered outside New York-Presbyterian Hospital's Weill Cornell Medical College to call for an end to surgeries performed on intersex babies — also known as intersex genital mutilation.

Intersex people are those born with sex characteristics that fall outside the binary of what we traditionally understand as male or female. At birth, when doctors assess a baby's genitals to assign it a sex, intersex babies are often put through medically unnecessary surgeries to make their genitals conform to the binary. These surgeries can not only be traumatic but also perpetuate shame and stigma. So, on the day after Intersex Awareness Day, at least 100 intersex people and allies stood in the rain outside the New York hospital where some of these surgeries reportedly take place to demand they stop, as part of an action lead by activist group Voices4 and the Intersex Justice Project, the intersex people of color-led group behind the #EndIntersexSurgery campaign.

"Intersex surgeries are still happening all over the world," Hanne Gaby Odiele, a model and intersex advocate, told Teen Vogue. Hanne didn't find out she was intersex until she was 17. "We are targeting a hospital that is known for still doing non-consensual surgeries on children."

In addition to asking medical professionals to end these surgeries, intersex advocate Emily Quinn told Teen Vogue there needs to be a societal shift in how we think about bodies.

"Our bodies do not need to be fixed, there's not a problem that needs to be fixed," Emily said. "It's just that society needs to be enlightened and understand that biology isn't black and white, specifically sexual differentiation in humans isn't black and white."

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📸: Brittney McNamara

#Teen Vogue #Intersex #EndIntersexSurgery

[mxanunnakiraymarquez]

#jim costich #Intersex #StopIGM #EndIntersexSurgery #human rights #christianity #christian #lgbt

[realtransfacts]

“5 Ways You Can End Intersex Surgery” by Pidgeon #EndIntersexSurgery

#Q #video #intersex #endintersexsurgery #perisexism #loud text cw

[pidgeonpagonis]

#LurieEndSurgery is a movement led by Intersex People of Color for Justice. Read our 2017 statement: http://bit.ly/2z8uCtn. Intersex People of Color for Bodily Autonomy & Justice seeks to uplift overlaps between state violence against black and brown folks & intersex people. Our 1st action as a collective, #LurieEndSurgery, is today 12 noon out front Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago on 225 E. Chicago Ave. All the help info is at endintersexsurgery.org and the fb event is: bit.ly/IADCHI2017. #LurieEndSurgery is the 1st, in many actions at hospitals nationally, under the umbrella hashtag #EndIntersexSurgery that we'll support. Lurie recently got wind of our protest and sent out this "high alert" message to staff (photo below). What's most telling is they never mention what our "extreme position" is, so I'll make it loud & clear for Lurie: Our extreme position is that Lurie ends medically unnecessary genital surgeries on intersex kids. We're demanding intersex children be protected under the Hypocratic Oath's tenent of First Do No Harm like other children. The point being, Lurie's Sex Development Program, is still performing MEDICALLY UNNECESSARY genital and gonadal surgeries on intersex kids. Lurie's Sex Development Program is continuing a practice that's in direct conflict w today's U.S. Department of State's statement (photo of statement below) which condemns these unnecessary surgeries! So if u believe in our "extreme position" (bodily autonomy for all!) please join us at noon out front of Lurie to demand #LurieEndSurgery (at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago)

#endintersexsurgery #lurieendsurgery

[superknovamusic]

Happy Intersex Awareness Day! 🌈

#intersexawaresnessday #intersexawarenessday2020 #intersexisbeautiful #endintersexsurgeries #intersexrights

[spintersex]

epic intersexies discord server >:]

HELLO EVERYONE!! IM CALLING ALL OF THE INTERSEX FOLK TO JOIN OUR RADICAL SERVER!! come to hang, talk, and vocalize our experiences! hope to c u there!! :3 https://discord.com/invite/wY43utVgED

#intersex #intersex pride #endintersexsurgeries #intersex awesome #join our discord

[genderqueerpositivity]

"Today, history was made.⁣⁣

After a three-year campaign from the Intersex Justice Project which included a petition that garnered over 45,000 signatures, Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago quietly posted a first-of-its-kind public apology Tuesday for harming intersex youth. The statement responds to IJP’s #EndIntersexSurgery campaign and promises to act quickly on several demands.⁣⁣

“This is a historic day that builds upon decades of work. We refuse to stop until all intersex children are protected from state-sanctioned violence,” says Sean Saifa Wall, co-founder of IJP.⁣ “The goal of the #EndIntersexSurgery campaign has always been to create a domino effect. Lurie’s example sets the tone for other hospitals to leave intersex people their own choices about their bodies. But we’re not done,” says Pidgeon Pagonis, co-founder of IJP."

(Via buzzfeedlgbtq)

(ID left: a screenshot of an image from an Instagram post by @buzzfeedlgbt, the image is a yellow background and purple circles, black text inside a white box reads "History: first US hospital to end intrusive surgeries on intersex children! Below is a quote from Lurie Children's Hosptial which reads "We empathize with intersex individuals who were harmed by the treatment that they received according to the historic standard of care and we apologize and are truly sorry.")

(ID right: a screenshot of the caption posted by @buzzfeedlgbt, the text of which is already copied above.)

#may every hosptial and medical professional follow this example #lgbtq history #lgbtqia history #intersex history

[conarcoin]

can i get an intersex rights and #endintersexsurgery?

why are you asking me like i'm a twitch streamer and this is the donation box help. i'm a tumblr blog

also like... obviously? forced surgery on intersex people is? bad? why are you asking a minecraft youtuber blog to say this

[themichigangayly]

Happy Intersex Awareness Day from everyone at The Michigan Gayly!

You can learn more at https://www.intersexjusticeproject.org

Also check out

https://interactadvocates.org/intersex-awareness-day/

#intersex #intersex awareness #intersex awareness day

[sinfullgamingttwitchtv-blog]

Mhh ????? Oder doch Metrosexuell #intersexuell #divers #intersexualit #queeramnesty #menschenrechte #lgbti #70jahreaemr #intersex #myintersexbody #endintersexsurgery #intersexy #endintersexmutilation #protectintersexkids #4intersex #4intersexrights #alvionklan #bestrongtogether #lgbt #tdor #intersexpride #homo #gay #lesbian #intergender #xywomen #intersexblog #dritteoption #queer #instaqueer #bundestag https://www.instagram.com/p/BrkPhf0BtkF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=t4yntk6jjosc

#intersexuell #divers #intersexualit #queeramnesty #menschenrechte #lgbti #70jahreaemr #intersex #myintersexbody #endintersexsurgery #intersexy #endintersexmutilation #protectintersexkids #4intersex #4intersexrights #alvionklan #bestrongtogether #lgbt #tdor #intersexpride #homo #gay #lesbian #intergender #xywomen #intersexblog #dritteoption #queer #instaqueer #bundestag

[coke-spoon]

“Call me by your Hebrew name” —Adam Eli via Instagram

#Instagram #hebrew #endintersexsurgery

[dlozlami]

(4/4) I stand with the intersex community. Sign the petition (https://t.co/lJRfIJF73w) and support, follow, direct funds to @Pidgejen and @IntersexJustice 🌈 Artwork by @itsmonicatrinidad #EndIntersexSurgery #IntersexJustice #IntersexRights #EndIntersexMutilation pic.twitter.com/joxy0fGUUZ

— SuperKnovaMusic (@SuperKnovaMusic) July 14, 2020

via @Dloz_Lami July 16, 2020 at 09:10AM

#Dloz_lami

[mxanunnakiraymarquez]

It is simple, the rights of the child have to come first with medically unnecessary genital surgeries.

#children and childhood #intersex #intersex man #endintersexsurgery #StopIGM #CAH #InterACT #RightsOfthechild #MedicalComplex #DelayIsOkay #femalegenitalmutilation #Intersexsurgery DSD #disorderofsexdevelopment

[fairy-changeling-bxy]