Stop the Genital Assignment of Gender in Intersex Infants. GENDER is not in our genitals. It is in our brain. GENDER is a social construct. Our genitals are the product of the diversity of nature. There are many variances of genitals. Our genitals do not always follow the "rules of the male/female binary". … Continue reading When will the rest of the world catch up with Malta?
This poem was written for Thanksgiving Day, here in the United States, 2015. I write this poem in honor of my gratitude that I survived, when too many are dying. This day I celebrated The Emancipation of my Spirit and my true Gender. Here is my Thanksgiving poem: Breaking from the Kingdom of Isolation! … Continue reading Breaking from the Kingdom of Isolation
My father told me to not tell. That the world would want me to burn in hell. I told you, my friend, you ran and flee. He was right, you hated me! I will forever miss those who could not be, on this path to cherish me. Family so mortified, Devastated that I am now alive.… Continue reading Poem: Maybe, just maybe, it is time to (Un)know Gender
Facebook allows us to see your memories. I am not so sure it is good to look back at times. A HUGE number of my "friends" vanished, or had to be blocked as they were revealed as uneducated about intersex, haters, bigots, and simply unable to accept me. Even educating them that I was an… Continue reading When Saliva Turns to Spit!
Can you see past the label? THE POWER OF ERASING ALL THE UGLY NAMES I HAVE BEEN CALLED WAS SIMPLY AMAZING! I am FREE NOW! All my life, I have been called all these horrible names and more. I personally wrote each and every one of these words on that chalkboard, as an exercise… Continue reading WE ARE HUMAN
Intersex Awareness Day, is October 26th, 2015, and this day marks one year since the Emancipation of my spirit. It marks the day I decide to escape the cultural entrapment and social expectations of living and appearing as female when I was never female. This day marks the day, my spirit was able to fully… Continue reading The Emancipation of my Spirit and my true Gender.
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’.
Since I have chosen to live as my true self, I have been having deep thoughts about this male/female binary. Being born an intersex person in the late 60's, and even if I had been born now, there is no option to raise me gender neutral, androgynous, gender non-conforming, or non binary gender. Even transgender children, and… Continue reading Mx. Anunnaki Ray and They, Them, Their, He, Him, His….
For fun, I compare myself to a seahorse dad. For it is the seahorse dads who give birth. Yes, I am a gestational father, a term I got from my intersex friend. I am an intersex person, who identifies as being a man and gender nonconforming because my body is not male. My body… Continue reading I am a SEAHORSE Dad
As an intersex survivor, it is my commitment to join other intersex or social activist, in helping to show this world that little intersex children should not be harmed any more. I am now dedicated to do this with Judi Herring, M.D., and with the new friendships, mentorship and wisdom of several intersex activists who… Continue reading I am an Emerging Gender/Intersex Activist
Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez 