Cosmetic Genital Surgery, Human Rights Violations, Intersex Awareness

Intersex is what it is….

Intersex is what it is, even if our doctors want to call it something else. Parents are not being told their baby is intersex to justify cosmetic genital surgery.  Most these surgeries are not medically necessary.  When in reality we are born with natural bodily variations.  Here is the United Nations' Intersex Fact Sheet, that uses… Continue reading Intersex is what it is….

Cosmetic Genital Surgery, Genital Integrity, Human Rights, Intersex Activist, Intersex Awareness, Intersex Traits, Poems, Self-Determination

Why do I feel like A VISITING ALIEN?

Do I really have to have more surgery to fit into YOUR WORLD? I use to appear a typical woman Then I use to want to appear a typical man Now I am being compared to transgender men I even made a lousy woman. Where do I fit in? Please do not erase me ♥… Continue reading Why do I feel like A VISITING ALIEN?

Cosmetic Genital Surgery, Human Rights, Human Rights Violations, Intersex Awareness

FAR TOO FEW OF US ARE AWARE OF THE SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS FACED BY MILLIONS OF INTERSEX PEOPLE

"FAR TOO FEW OF US ARE AWARE OF THE SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS FACED BY MILLIONS OF INTERSEX PEOPLE  Because their bodies don't comply with the typical definition of male or female.  Intersex children and adults are frequently subjected to forced sterilization and other unnecessary and irreversible surgery and suffer discrimination in schools, workplace, and other… Continue reading FAR TOO FEW OF US ARE AWARE OF THE SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS FACED BY MILLIONS OF INTERSEX PEOPLE

Poems

Poem: This world will not disgrace us.

This world will not disgrace us Tears go down my face, how could this world disgrace? They say do not fix what is not broken Yet they tried to fix me and they tried to fix you too They said they loved me Tears go down my face, how could this world disgrace? They said… Continue reading Poem: This world will not disgrace us.

Cosmetic Genital Surgery, Human Rights Violations

Cut IT off: A “Psychosocial Emergency!”

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!”

Cosmetic Genital Surgery, Human Rights Violations, Intersex Awareness, Intersex Traits, Self-Determination

All Intersex Bodies are Beautiful, and I do not need fixed to fit your ‘normal’.

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’.

Human Rights Violations, Self-Determination

My Body is Not Abnormal. Please Don’t Call Me Broken.

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.

Cosmetic Genital Surgery, Human Rights Violations, Self-Determination

The United Nations Says: Stop the Torture

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

Cosmetic Genital Surgery, Human Rights Violations, Self-Determination

Intersex Children: Waiting to Decide on Sex Surgery

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