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Pride Is for Intersex People, Too

Intersex people contain always existed and, in some indigenous cultures, are actually revered as distinct and cherished. However, across the society, most societies view the birth of an intersex child negatively, with many subjected to harmful, medically unnecessary surgeries, abandonment, or infanticide. As a outcome, despite equaling about 2% of the world’s population (136 million), we linger largely invisible due to shame, stigma, and medical erasure.

In short, intersex people like myself participate a similar quest for the basic human rights to self-determination, bodily autonomy, health, and well-being. The intersex group began organizing and speaking out about thirty-five years ago, and today is a growing international movement. Despite our issues existing at the intersection of children’s rights, women's and reproductive rights, and disability rights, as well as LGBTQ rights, it has largely been only the LGBTQ movement stepping up to support the intersex community. Lgbtq+ and trans people were some of the first to align with the early intersex activists, and to hang out, funding for intersex activism has largely come from gender non-conforming movement funders.&nbs

Intersex

Intersex is a general legal title used to refer to individuals born with, or who develop naturally in puberty, biological sex characteristics which are not typically male or female.  That is, a person with an intersex condition is born with sex chromosomes, external genitalia, or an internal reproductive system that is not considered typical for a male or female.

Are people with intersex conditions “third gender”?
Many people with intersex conditions identify solidly as a man or as a woman, appreciate many non-intersex people. There are some who detect as a member of an alternative gender.

Is intersex part of the “transgender” community?
While some people with intersex conditions also name as transgender, they as a group have a unique set of needs and priorities besides those shared with trans people. Too often, their distinct needs are made concealed or secondary when “intersex” becomes just another subcategory of “transgender.”

Is intersex the same thing as a “hermaphrodite?”
The word “hermaphrodite” is a stigmatizing and misleading word. There is growing momentum to eliminate the word

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Although lesbian, lgbtq+, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people have grow more visible in recent years, in many countries, people with different sexual orientations continue to encounter discrimination, exclusion, labeling, hostility, fines, and death penalties. Individuals with different sexual orientations are subjected to homophobic attitudes that are considered not only by society but also by their closest social environment, such as family. Homophobia within the family can lead to a impairment of self-confidence, self-esteem and negative situations such as migration and homelessness. In addition to the difficulties they experience, their inability to benefit from health services negatively affects their mental health. Studies exhibit that the rates of suicide among LGBTI people are higher than among heterosexuals due to difficulties and mental problems. In order to reduce the suicide risk of individuals with different sexual orientations, the lack of facts of society and healthcare professionals should be eliminated. LGBTI individuals should be supported in the coming out process, and school-family-health worker cooperation should be en

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LGBTQIA+ Health: Intersex People

  

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A controversy has risen in recent years over the question of intersex health and medical treatment. Intersex people are not easy to categorize in male/female terms because of atypical or ambiguous genitalia, chromosomes, or bodily organs.

Since the late 1950s, intersex infants have routinely been surgically altered to conform as much as possible to a selected gender. Surgery has been followed by hormone treatment and often by shame and secrecy within the child's family.

In many cases intersex people include had painful and unsuccessful adjustments to surgery and arbitrary gender assignment. Activists discuss that surgery should not occur or should be deferred to the intersex individual's mature decision.

 

  • Harmony Alliance
    Accord Alliance seeks to enhance the health and well-being of intersex people and their families, and to collaborate with clinicians and researchers on intersex issues. The organization has created a model of intersex health and clinical guidelines calling for interdiscip

    Adding the "I": Does Intersex Belong in the LGBT Movement?

    by Emi Koyama, Intersex Initiative

    Should LGBT groups add the "I" (for intersex) to their names, mission statements, etc.? That is the scrutinize many people are asking, but there is no straightforward answer.

    There are a couple of reasons for adding the "I" to LGBT. First, intersex bodies are pathologized and erased in a way that is similar to how homosexuality has historically been treated within psychiatry. Even though homosexuality has been officially depathologized for three decades, transgender people are still labeled as having "gender identity disorder" and thus treated as something abnormal rather than a innate human variety. From this point of view, intersex is just another sexual minority that is pathologized and treated as "abnormal."

    Another reason is that the surgical treatment for intersex conditions is heavily motivated by homophobia, transphobia, and misogyny. Western medicine defines "functional" male and female genitalia in terms of its ability to participate in a heterosexual intercourse, rather than how much sexual enjoyment patients can achieve--which is why removing a woman's clitoris is medically