Sam Sharpe is a transgender and intersex peer support worker, researcher, advocate, and educator. They have a PhD in biology and are currently a staff member with InterConnect and a professor of biology and social transformation studies. In the year since I last wrote about the experience of living in an impossible
At the first ever public intersex rights demonstration in 1996, intersex activists Max Beck and Morgan Holmes were joined by their allies outside the American Academy of Pediatrics annual conference in Boston to demand an end to nonconsensual, non-emergent surgeries on intersex children. This 1996 protest, along with the then-emerging intersex rights movement, represented
One advocate's guide to better healthcare treatment. Sam Sharpe Intersex people have all of the same health care needs as non-intersex people, as well as some specific intersex care needs. However, due to the ongoing erasure and stigma of bodies like mine that don’t conform to the sex and gender binary, getting
If I was competing in high school or college athletics today, I would have much more to worry about than just being teased for looking different.
People with PCOS can face shame, stigma and misunderstanding. Sam Sharpe explains what PCOS is and how it relates to the intersex umbrella.
