I am a man, with a few boy parts, that most call girl parts. But that is only because they believe in lies. They are all boy parts if they are my parts, because I am a boy. I might be non-conforming, but they belong to me, and my legal gender is male. As for…… Continue reading The male/female binary is a Myth!
I have an intersex cousin who was born about ten years after me. They allowed a surgeon to cut off their child’s phallus for no good reason. They allowed themselves to be talked into the utterly crazy belief that all there is to being a woman is to be missing a penis. Worse, this surgeon…… Continue reading Being rejected by my family because of what I represent when I speak up for my intersex cousin who was mutilated.
This meme was not created so much for me, since I am OUT publicly. I created it mostly for those who deserve to live stealth lives and not be outed. They did not ask for it like i did, and to be “OUT” is not always safe. Now that I am a public figure, and…… Continue reading Dear Ally, It is your responsibility to keep us safe, and here is how.
Normalizing interventions done to our bodies and to our minds. Unthinkable, and yet it is still allowed to happen. Unthinkable, and yet the medical complex still gets away with it. And here we are having to stay calm! When it is simply unthinkable! Here we are trying to teach you, so that culture will stop doing…… Continue reading Poem: STOP the Unthinkable!
Our kids are proof that it is about educating male/female binary, and intersex erasure, that messes up the truth around natural bodily variations existing in us humans. You see, our children were taught that intersex bodies existed, as soon as I realized I was not a disorder, and was actually born intersex instead. Yup, they…… Continue reading The FEMALE PENIS and the MALE VAGINA; and explaining this to our children.
I want people to see what I get to see as an intersex advocate, educator and as a friend. I received permission to publish this heart breaking response from a Facebook friend of mine who has survived non-consensual surgery as a child. It was in response to the meme you see above: I am trying,…… Continue reading An Anonymous Message From an Intersex Survivor of Non-consentual Surgery.
MX. ANUNNAKI RAY, GENDER/INTERSEX ACTIVIST: EDUCATOR, WRITER & SPEAKER·WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2017 My thoughts for the day: Language is very important, and language can do harm. Here is one example to why: The biggest priority most intersex activist/advocates/educators have, like myself, is decreasing genital mutilation in babies born with intersex traits and decreasing our bodies…… Continue reading The difference between transgender and intersex and the harm that wrong language can bring
