What Intersex Awareness Day Means to Me: Emily
Hope. Change. Acceptance. Celebration. To me, those are the words I think of as I’m getting ready for Intersex Awareness Day. Intersex people spend much of our lives in a negative loop. Sometime it’s
What Intersex Awareness Day Means to Me – Rebecca
I was nine years old when I asked my mother to verify that I would never have a period -- just like Aunt Kacki. I pointed out passages of "Are You There God, It's Me
New UN Intersex Fact Sheet
The United Nations Human Rights Campaign just published this new fact sheet on Intersex as part of their "Free and Equal" Campaign from the Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (UN OHCH). To better
Support and Advocacy – Reflections on the AIS-DSD SG Conference
Last week in Cincinnati, Ohio I attended my seventh Androgen Insensitivity – Differences of Sex Development Support Group (AIS-DSD SG) conference and am still basking in the “orchid love.” There is nothing quite like it.
Manufacturing Comfort
Last week’s Associated Press story featuring intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, and discussion of M.C. v. Medical University of South Carolina is a strong example of a disquieting trend