Human Rights, Prejudice, Relationships

Dear Ally, Please Don’t Deny you are a Person of Privilege to Love Me

I have a few people in my life who are really trying to be good allies.  I genuinely appreciate this.   As a minority, in many ways, I know that it is not always easy to accept a person like me in your life. I know that most mean well, but here is the problem, with… Continue reading Dear Ally, Please Don’t Deny you are a Person of Privilege to Love Me

Human Rights, Intersex Cosmetic Surgery, Self-Determination, Short Messages

Chile outlawed unnecessary Genital “Normalizing” Surgeries on Intersex Babies! 2nd country to do so since last April 2015, when Malta was the first.

A Sad UPDATE to this blog:  We thought Chili had outlawed these surgeries on nonconsenting intersex children. It ends up that something else ended up happening to the creation of this new law that invalidates the original resolution. Quote: On August 23, 2016, the Chilean Ministry of Health issued Circular No. 7, 2016, which invalidated… Continue reading Chile outlawed unnecessary Genital “Normalizing” Surgeries on Intersex Babies! 2nd country to do so since last April 2015, when Malta was the first.

Hope, Poems, Short Messages

Poem: I Promise to Be Your Voice: My New Year Resolution for 2016

I Promise to Be Your Voice I read about you, in Africa, sweet angel now in heaven. They cut your penis off, and you bled to death.   Your family blamed all the bad things of the world on your birth.  That you were supposedly a curse to this world, simply because you were born… Continue reading Poem: I Promise to Be Your Voice: My New Year Resolution for 2016

Celebrations, Poems, Self-Determination

All I Want for Christmas

All I Want for Christmas   All I want for Christmas Is the intersex babies to be born Loved for who they are Praised like in the past The amazing miracle of nature's diversity, that we are All I want for Christmas Is the intersex babies to be born Not fearing unnecessary pain To not be… Continue reading All I Want for Christmas

Human Rights Violations, Poems

Poem: Human Rights; December 10th, International Human Rights Day

INTERSEX HUMAN RIGHTS: H    help us get the message out U    ugly things are allowed to happen to intersex babies M   make a difference today, and share an intersex person's story A   anger can make a difference if focused and controlled N   no more atrocities    R   reason with… Continue reading Poem: Human Rights; December 10th, International Human Rights Day

Cosmetic Genital Surgery, Human Rights Violations, Short Messages

“It’s too small, let’s make them into a girl!” Yup, this atrocity is still happening today!

The comic below is borrowed from: Assigned Male Comics "Smashing the gender binary one strip at a time!" By Sophie Labelle Why is this a Human Rights Violation? So called "experts" and  doctors can assign an intersex baby's gender by the appearance of the genitals and how they interpret  the gender from it.  Here is the… Continue reading “It’s too small, let’s make them into a girl!” Yup, this atrocity is still happening today!

Cosmetic Genital Surgery, Human Rights Violations

Doctors Opposing Circumcision Genital Integrity Policy Statement: So, why are the genitals of intersex infants still being mutilated?

Here is the "Doctors Opposing Circumcision Genital Integrity Policy Statement", below.  So, why are the genitals of intersex infants still being destroyed?   How can one justify "corrective" surgery, when it takes away fertility, and genital integrity? When an intersex infant is operated on, to assign their gender through surgical "corrective" interventions, they  somehow justified… Continue reading Doctors Opposing Circumcision Genital Integrity Policy Statement: So, why are the genitals of intersex infants still being mutilated?

Human Rights Violations, Intersex Awareness, Questions and Answers, Self-Determination

What are others saying about being intersex? Here is what they have to say:

FIVE ARTICLES WRITTEN BY OTHERS  1) Please Read Article:  9 Damaging Lies Doctors Told Me When I Was Growing Up Intersex By Pidgeon Pagonis "You’ve told one lie after another to my family and me since I was three months old. And thanks to you all, I – like millions of other intersex folks –… Continue reading What are others saying about being intersex? Here is what they have to say:

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, 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