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What it's Like to be Intersex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAUDKEI4QKI
Video about intersex folks
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Interesting for all, not just those intersex
Very down to earth and delightful people. I loved the moment "Hands up all those who have testes."
Rhona McCloud
Intersex
covers a lot of different conditions. I didn't find out until I was 18 that I am intersex. Doctors wanted to operate and I told then Hell NO I have managed to live a fairly normal life and more than 40 years later those internal organs that "will become cancerous" are still OK.
The fact that doctors today still want operate so that we "conform to the male/female binary" really anger me. What right do they have to choose how I will live my life? Screw them all.
Joanna
This is not a binary world
To anyone who is reasonably scientific; somewhat intellectual, it should be obvious that the whole of the world is analogue. Sure there are male and female, and thousands of variations in between. Lots of us did not get the choice to avoid surgery because it was taken out of our hands when we were born.
So true
So true Gwen. Those "cancerous" organs gave two beautiful children life,
Interesting video
There are some lawsuits in the courts over doctors during surgery on intersex children.
Presently, modern medicine is religious dogma of the worst sort. Modern medicine is predicated on greed and arrogance.
That being said, thank you for sharing this video, Brooke.