I am a Whole Unmutilated Intersex Person. I am Human! Stop Harming Intersex Babies and Children! By Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez For Intersex Awareness Day October 26th, 2023
Tag: Intersex
Poem: You Hypocrites, he loved me more, a man!
I was loved deeply I was loved whole He loved me more than for my spirit He loved me for more than my soul. Now you praise him for having such beautiful love Now he is gone, in heaven above. You hypocrites! Because when I changed, you said he would leave me You even said… Continue reading Poem: You Hypocrites, he loved me more, a man!
To help end intersex genital mutilation, please stop conflating sex traits with gender identity.
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.
Things Endosex/Cisgender/Heterosexual people don’t have to worry about.
By talking to other intersex and/or transgender people on social media, I have created this list of things Endosex/Cisgender/Heterosexual people do NOT have to worry about daily. Note: you are born with endosex physiology if you are not born with intersex physiology. Cisgender means you agree with your birth assignment. Heterosexual means you are "straight".… Continue reading Things Endosex/Cisgender/Heterosexual people don’t have to worry about.
How to Add Intersex Responsibly to Your LGBTQ+ Human Rights Efforts
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
A New Important Word: Endosex
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
Some People in Power and Control Will Not Stop Regulating Our Intersex Lives as Nonconsenting Children.
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.
Poem: Strength is arriving when you want to die
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
More than Two Sexes Exist in Jewish and Christian Scripture: Male, Female, and Intersex in the Image of God.
As a Master of Divinity Student at Meadville Lombard Theological School, I originally wrote this as my midterm paper for a summer 2022 class I took at Chicago Theological Seminary. The class was Very Different Visions: Jewish and Christian Biblical Interpretations; with professor Nick Schaser. I received an A and now share it with you… Continue reading More than Two Sexes Exist in Jewish and Christian Scripture: Male, Female, and Intersex in the Image of God.
Poem: Shamed into silence – eugenics
Shamed into silence A form of eugenics without killing us Shamed into silence Then cut us and create infertility to fit your binary notions Shamed into silence So we do not talk about our bodies to anyone - hush, you say with your M.D. and Ph.D.! Shamed into silence The government, with its patriarchy, colonialism,… Continue reading Poem: Shamed into silence – eugenics
Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez 