I know the title of this blog is drastic. I did it on purpose. There is no nice way to say it. I will not comply to this being called "corrective surgery", when a baby is not sick, and this destroys fertility and sexual pleasure later in life. But guess what, it happens daily in… Continue reading Cut IT off: A “Psychosocial Emergency!”
After forty-six years, I finally figured out that I was born in the right body! Since my life had been destroyed by this ideal regarding male and female, I have joked that I was born to the wrong planet at times though. I joked that the Mothership had left me here. Yes, my life was… Continue reading All Intersex Bodies are Beautiful, and I do not need fixed to fit your ‘normal’.
As an intersex survivor, it is my commitment to join other intersex or social activist, in helping to show this world that little intersex children should not be harmed any more. I am now dedicated to do this with Judi Herring, M.D., and with the new friendships, mentorship and wisdom of several intersex activists who… Continue reading I am an Emerging Gender/Intersex Activist
There are too many dying, and committing suicide who are gender non-conforming or transgender. I was almost one of them. Being born with intersex traits, for me, does not separate me, or protect me, from the ugly prejudice and misconceptions the world has about us gender non-conforming and transgender people. I speak for myself, but… Continue reading Too many Dying: I was Almost One of them.
I believe that people with intersex traits are a natural occurring variance in nature. Very few conditions of intersex cause disease and need medical attention. Being born with intersex traits is truly no different than being born with red hair, or green eyes. It is simply unique and rare. Abnormal is used in describing a… Continue reading My Body is Not Abnormal. Please Don’t Call Me Broken.
Unless the infant's life is in danger, it is time to stop 'normalizing' surgeries on people with intersex conditions. Lives have simply been destroyed. Too many medical errors are being made. UN Condemns “Normalization” Surgery for Intersexuality "The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture (SRT) just released a statement condemning the medical profession’s nonconsensual treatment… Continue reading The United Nations Says: Stop the Torture
This documentary, from ABC news, is about a person born with both male and female genitals and their meeting with the surgeon who operated on him as a baby. This surgeon sadly shows little regret for the error made in assigning gender wrong. Children born with both genitals used to be called hermaphrodites, now they're… Continue reading Intersex Children: Waiting to Decide on Sex Surgery
Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez 