Is it possible to be intersex without knowing? I discovered I was intersex by watching a Buzzfeed video.
By Irene
My doctors never talked to me. And my father kept everything secret from me for 7 years. Last year I discovered the truth because of the “What It’s Like To Be Intersex” Buzzfeed video, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me.
I grew up living in Russia and Ukraine, and I was just like any other girl – until puberty started for everyone but me. At 14 years old I still hadn’t experienced puberty except for some signs of high testosterone levels. My doctors at the time in Ukraine were like “Well your ovaries look strange on the ultrasound, but we’re gonna make them work!” I remember I started going to these sessions where they would put some kind of electrodes on my belly, and I would lie there for 30 minutes until the electrodes warmed up my “ovaries”. I went there a couple times a week for a couple of months. There were no results, but later that year I ended up with appendicitis and had to have surgery – I’m not saying that it was necessarily triggered by these sessions, but who knows.
