By Jim Costich March 29th, 2019 Before I begin, here is a reminder of the definition of Intersex from the United Nations Intersex fact sheet: Intersex people are born with sex characteristics (including genitals, gonads and chromosome patterns) that do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies. Intersex is an umbrella term… Continue reading The 100% Female Intersex Girlz
Today marks the FIRST day of my changing everything I say to MOGAI, instead of LGBTQIA+ MOGAI is said: "Mo" + "gay" and/or M-O-G-A-I "MOGAI" stands for marginalized orientations, marginalized gender alignments, and intersex. M = Marginalized O = Orientations: Both Sexual Orientation and Romantic Orientation. GA = Gender Alignments: Both Gender Identity and Gender… Continue reading I will now use MOGAI instead of LGBTQIA+
By Jim Costich December 2018 Being gay is not just a sexual orientation. It's a gender. Or rather there are different genders of gay. This surprised a friend of mine who is a tad new to gay culture. He didn't realize that among gay men gendered pronouns change in mid-sentence such as: "We had the worst… Continue reading Gender, Sex and Orientation Over(your)lap
How the government and I define my existence: My Biological Sex: Intersex My Legal Sex: Intersex. As proven with medical documentation after going to Florida Court to prove I was born intersex, and now as documented accurately on my Colorado Birth Certificate: Intersex. At this time, my driver’s license and social security both legally say… Continue reading Trying to belong to a binary-only world: My Biological Sex, My Legal Sex, My Gender Identity, My Gender Expression, and My Sexual Orientation.
I feel it is now time to create more allies, create more supportive organizations, and give a way for organizations that want to become intersex inclusive direction on how they can help us end these atrocities that intersex people face. These human rights violations are in regards to aborting healthy intersex fetuses, and ending non-consenting… Continue reading Why I feel INTERSEX should be added to the LGBTQ+ rainbow
The Alphabet of HUMAN SEXUALITY: A through Z This A through Z list includes a mixture of ways to describe, Biological Sex, Gender Identity, Gender Expression, Sexual Orientation, Romantic Orientation, Affectionate Orientation, Kink, Fetish Culture, a few miscellaneous labels, and some labels that are socially taboo! For definitions, you can visit: Helpful MOGAI Definitions of… Continue reading The Alphabet of HUMAN SEXUALITY: A through Z
Recently they have been trying to get the senate to pass a bill that would require Sex Ed to be LGBTQ inclusive. This would be progress, this would be awesome even. However, it still does not include intersex, nor the teaching of our intersex bodies. It is another example of intersex erasure. Below I explain… Continue reading Here is another sad example of Intersex Erasure:
Now that I appear a guy, my husband is often asked if he is gay? It is a difficult question since he has never been with a typical man before, nor wanted to be with one. He was with only typical females before me. As some already know, I was born intersex, and… Continue reading Is my husband gay, now that I appear a man? I will use “Intersexual” as a Sexual Orientation.
From the outside people see couples rather simply. We can appear "heterosexual", "gay", "lesbian", or "bi-sexual". When we realize that nature created a variety of people out there, we now realize that couples can be many different types of people. When one stops to think about all the variety of bodies out there, such as… Continue reading The different types of Lesbians and Gay Men.
It is important that I share with you something I see many having confusion around when referring to a person born with intersex traits. My body was born with physical traits of both male and female. There are many different ways this can happen in a person, but to keep things simple, for me it… Continue reading I was born with an Intersex body, but this does not create my Gender or my Sexual Orientation.
