All these organizations say it is time to give intersex children their self-determination over their own gender identity and allow the child to grow up to decide on their own if they need surgery or not. Most surgeries done on intersex children are cosmetic in nature, unnecessary and done without the child's informed… Continue reading These Human Rights Organizations and many more say it is time to Stop IGM.
After 15 months of persistence and jumping through many hoops, I finally did it! I proudly did it without a lawyer too. However, I did have my dear friend Sara Kelly Keenan helping me along the way. Sara Kelly Keenan was the first in the United States and in New York City to get an… Continue reading I am Proudly the First in Colorado to get an Intersex Birth Certificate
My thoughts today and the way I see it. I feel that one of the biggest problem society has right now, with the confusion of sex and gender, is that most people conflate biological sex with gender identity. Thinking that they are both the same thing when they are not. Most… Continue reading Cultural Dysphoria: Stop conflating biological sex with gender identity.
I thank you for your hard work and making this a better world! InterACT Advocates for Intersex Youth Go to InterACT to see original: VICTORY: California is the First in the U.S. to Pass Legislation on Intersex Rights; HISTORY: MADE! Today, interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth, Equality California, and California State Senator Scott Wiener… Continue reading California Just Became The First State To Pass Legislation On Intersex Rights
Thank you TEDx Jacksonville for giving me this opportunity to change this world. I am feeling very emotional and very honored. As a little boy, I had my voice taken from me. I now don't have to be silent. I have given myself a voice. I will continue to promise to be the… Continue reading I was picked to talk for TEDx Jacksonville Annual Conference October 20th, 2018
My own personal genital nonconformity, for me, brings a whole new meaning to being a gender nonconformist. The way I see my vagina is a boy's vagina if it belongs to me, and I am legally a man now. If a beautiful woman happens to have a penis, it is her penis. Calling her penis… Continue reading The Female Penis & The Male Vagnia
The World Population as of May 2018 is 7.6 Billion (7,600,000,000) People. Most all of us are assigned at birth our gender identity and it is based on ONE thing, our genitals. This blog is to show you an estimated number of intersex people and transgender people who are being hurt by the practice of… Continue reading How Many People Are Assigned Wrong At Birth?
Intersex Poem: September 5th, 2012 "Let’s curse the verse. The fame of shame can be tamed. Its name is bold, written on a frame of gold. The picture can’t be measured with a Ritcher. A broken heart torn all apart. So from the start, we a work of art. But with a scalpel with no… Continue reading Intersex Poem By Mo Cortez, Intersex Advocate
HAPPY Father’s Day to all the different types of DADS in this AMAZING WORLD. I am a SEAHORSE Dad ~.V.~
I now appear a MINORITY in many ways. I am the SAME PERSON, only my labels have changed. I have much to share with this world about hate, prejudice, and judgment now. When I appeared a GIRL to this world: At one time I was considered Cisgender, Heterosexual, and had White Female… Continue reading How I lost all my Privilege
