I wrote this term paper for my Critical Race Theory Class, which I took this summer, 2024, at Meadville Lombard Theological School while working on my Master of Divinity. My professor was Dr. Barbara Fears, a Black woman from Howard University School of Divinity, an accomplished religious educator, Chaplain, Scholar, and Professor. I proudly received… Continue reading Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and Intersex People: How the Invention of Two Binary Systems Do Harm
A person on social media wrote to me, "I am male?" When I asked if they were a man. I then told them this describes their endosex sex traits since they did not say they had intersex physiology. Then I asked: "What is your gender identity?" I still do not know this person's gender identity.… Continue reading To help end intersex genital mutilation, please stop conflating sex traits with gender identity.
Here is a way to add the “I” for intersex, responsibly to LGBT+. Demographics show that about 50% of intersex people identify as LGBTQ+ in some way. This means Intersex people will receive the collateral damage of homophobia, transphobia, queerphobia, in the form of intersex phobia. So please consider adding intersex responsibly to your human rights efforts.… Continue reading How to Add Intersex Responsibly to Your LGBTQ+ Human Rights Efforts
An important new word that honors the existence of intersex people: “ENDOSEX” A person is ENDOSEX if not born with INTERSEX physiology. Both can be assigned wrong At birth. Both can change their gender identity or sex traits, and be valid in who theybecome. A human being can be of any gender identity, man, woman, both or neither,… Continue reading A New Important Word: Endosex
Thoughts of the day: Not all intersex people are nonbinary. Not all intersex people use "intersex" to define their physiology. Some do, and some do not. Some like being called "hermaphrodite," and some do not. I'm a hermaphrodite. I'm okay with being called a hermaphrodite. My sex traits are intersex. My physiology is intersex. My… Continue reading My sex is not my gender identity.
My educational thoughts for the day: We have all been taught by colonialism, and people in power and control, to pathologize human diversity. This language mostly comes from people of power who are white, endosex, cisgender, heterosexual men. To this day, people in power and control invent what is "normal" and have judged, pathologized, and… Continue reading Some People in Power and Control Will Not Stop Regulating Our Intersex Lives as Nonconsenting Children.
Many anti-youth transgender bills have exclusions that promote the continued surgical harm of innocent intersex kids. In these bills, they will call an intersex child a“disorder of sex development” and wrongfully justify continuing to do cosmetic, medically unnecessary surgeries on non-consenting children. All children, endosex or intersex, deserve self-determination over their own bodies. Trans youth, and intersex babies/children,… Continue reading A Call for Action: Against Anti-Youth Transgender Bills
Strength is not how much you can endure before you break Strength is how much you can endure after you have been broken Strength is arriving when you want to die the physical and emotional pain is so bad but love keeps me here rage keeps me here Strength is forgiving when people, who know… Continue reading Poem: Strength is arriving when you want to die
Dear Medical Complex and Government, My son and daughter are biologically related to both of their parents. We are two men, a gestational dad, and a seminal father. You see, I am an intersex man. I am not a woman.I am not female. We are not the only family like this. Please update your forms immediately! Your prejudice… Continue reading Dear Medical Complex and Government, Gestational Fathers Exist!
To better fight for the human rights of intersex children adding words to describe human diversity is necessary. Human beings can be born with endosex male physiology and endosex female physiology. If a person is born without endosex physiology, they are said to have been born with intersex physiology. Like endosex physiology, intersex physiology includes… Continue reading What is endosex?
Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez 