Poems

Poem: Our 30th Wedding Anniversary

Forever yours Even if you are not here Vows that will never be broken even in death We would have celebrated our 30th Wedding Anniversary today Your legacy still lives on because you loved me Tonight I talked about you and our family again in Zoom I walk through my empty house now that the… Continue reading Poem: Our 30th Wedding Anniversary

Poems, Relationships

Poem: My Beloved Friend, A True Justice Warrior

My beloved friend, a treasure of Gold Priceless and Fearless a true gift from God She is the miracle that this cold world needed God works through her *** My beloved friend, who is a true ally With fire in their heart to stand with those oppressed  Even when they know the same hate will… Continue reading Poem: My Beloved Friend, A True Justice Warrior

Bridge Building, Civil Rights, Critical Race Theory, Cultural Dysphoria, Hate Crimes, Human Rights, Intersex Activist

Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and Intersex People: How the Invention of Two Binary Systems Do Harm

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

Intersex Activist, My Intersex Story, Self-Determination

My sex is not my gender identity.

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.

Cosmetic Genital Surgery, endosexism, Hate Crimes, Human Rights Violations, Intersex Activist, Intersex Cosmetic Surgery, Intersex Traits, Prejudice, Self-Determination, TEDx Jacksonville, Transgender

A Call for Action: Against Anti-Youth Transgender Bills

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

Bridge Building, Human Rights, My Intersex Story, Our Intersex Love Story, Self-Determination

My ‘Love What Matters’ Article: I’m a Gestational Father

https://www.lovewhatmatters.com/intersex-man-gestational-father-shares-self-discovery-journey/ My article for 'Love What Matters' By Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez | February 9th, 2022 | Edited by Sonia Beltz ~.V.~

Cosmetic Genital Surgery, Cultural Dysphoria, Emancipation, endosexism, Freedom, Genital Integrity, Human Rights, Human Rights Violations, Intersex Activist, Intersex Awareness, Intersex Cosmetic Surgery, Intersex Erasure, Intersex People, Intersex Phobia, Intersex Traits, My Intersex Story, Prejudice, Science, Self-Determination, TEDx Jacksonville, Transgender, United Nations

My Plea: I am a 46XX CAH Intersex Nonconforming Gay Transgender MAN

This is the Poster I e-mailed for the Laurie Children's Hospital CAH Stories Symposium, Held on Feb. 4th and 5th, 2022. Email: cahstories@luriechildrens.org The text in the poster above reads: I AM A MAN I am a 46 XX CAH Intersex Nonconforming Gay Transgender MAN You will not erase my intersex existence with your bad… Continue reading My Plea: I am a 46XX CAH Intersex Nonconforming Gay Transgender MAN

Poems, Relationships

Poem: Being used to help change this world.

For the greater good I have been used to teach your world better Like an alien visitor I have been abused I have be misused Sensationalized Criticized Scrutinized Like a Circus Side Show Friended and cracked open to be dropped after you are done with me Looked at under a microscope So alone For no… Continue reading Poem: Being used to help change this world.

Human Rights, Intersex Activist, Intersex Awareness, Intersex Erasure, Intersex People, My Intersex Story

The United States 2020 Census Didn’t Include My Sex!

The United States 2020 Census didn't include my sex.   You see, my legal existence is not intersex, the way that I was born.   September 2018 this erroneous error on my original birth certificate was corrected to my true sex: intersex.   I am Proudly the First in Colorado to get an Intersex Birth… Continue reading The United States 2020 Census Didn’t Include My Sex!