Tony went through 'hell' due to unnecessary surgery at 7. She suffered for decades Tony Briffa said she has gone through "hell" after an unnecessary medical procedure led to decades of conse...

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Every three months, I'd basically be lying on the examination table, naked legs wide open, and having all these medical students or whatever, looking at me. None of this was because it was medically required...

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Victoria passes law protecting intersex kids from unneeded surgery Victorian Parliament has passed a new law that protects intersex children from being given unnecessary medical procedures without consent.

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"It has taken years of pain and healing to reclaim who I am, unlearn the shame and finally understand that I was always enough. Our bodily differences are a natural part of human diversity"

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Intersex Texans fear new law will force gender identities Intersex Texans fear House Bill 229, which defines gender based on the reproductive system, could increase surgeries on intersex children and create challenges to obtaining sex changes on government d...

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Many fear that they will no longer have the ability to change the gender that was chosen for them as children & some fear worse outcomes: the law encouraging parents to surgically conform their #intersexchildren to one gender or another

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Advocates decry intersex exceptions in trans health bans Restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors consistently allow exceptions for minors with intersex traits, a new study finds.

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"more than two dozen states have passed bans on gender-affirming care like surgery and hormones for transgender minors. In every one, the law makes an explicit exception for treatment and procedures for #intersex youth"

Because of course they have 🤬

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19 year old Kristi discovers a secret her doctor and parents have kept from her all her life. Her search for truth uncovers a radical psychology experiment on a pair of identical twins that led to a global medical scandal.

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‘I don’t want anyone to suffer like I did’: the intersex campaigners fighting to limit surgery on children What should be done about the small proportion of babies born with genitals that are neither typically male nor typically female? Many of those affected believe parents and doctors are often too quick...

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"The course of action that his parents had been advised to follow brought Ambrose a great deal of misery and it was a massive blow to learn that such huge decisions had been taken about his body before he could have a say in them"

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The Intersex Community Faced Significant Barriers and Challenges in 2024 New survey data from CAP and NORC shed light on the experiences, challenges, and discrimination that affect the intersex community in the United States.

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Prevalence of mental health issues for intersex people - School of Nursing & Midwifery | Trinity College DublinmenusearchSearchmenu Ireland’s intersex population is experiencing significant mental health challenges, according to a new report conducted by a team of researchers at Trinity College Dublin.

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Although we comprise as much as 1.7 percent of the population, we are rendered invisible through a combination of factors including stigma, shame and a lack of cultural representation, as well as secretive medical practices 🧵

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First, do no harm—unless you're intersex or trans Opinion: Hospitals are abandoning transgender and intersex patients, denying them essential care and autonomy. It's time for hospitals to uphold their ethical duty and provide life-saving gender-affir...

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Institutions stopped providing necessary care to consenting trans patients in a matter of days. Still, they’ve spent decades refusing to stop “normalizing” #intersex infants’ bodies without their consent.

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Between plastic acting as an estrogen and E from menstruation control NOT being filtered back out of our water (it leaves via urine), it seems we’ll be seeing more #intersexchildren. Which is a PRBLM bc terf prnts r also weirdly obsessed w their kid’s fertility. It’s NORMAL and part of sex spectrum.

Hospitals continue non-consensual intersex surgeries while shutting down gender-affirming care - LGBTQ Nation The procedures are meant to "correct" sex variations and have been condemned by human rights organizations.

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when it comes to infants and toddlers who are identified as #intersex at birth, the surgeries continue. The same healthcare providers that have stopped gender-affirming care have continued to perform intersex pediatric surgeries

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Intersex youths are also hurt by anti-trans laws, advocates say The recent spike in state legislation targeting transgender children has raised alarms among advocates and parents of intersex kids, who worry these news laws may reinforce harmful medical practices.

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We have felt like we’re in a war for a long time - It’s devastating to see the war level up in this way when you thought you were actually getting progress.

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#SusannahTemko is determined to increase the positive visibility of the #intersex community. Through her own lived experience, she challenges the medical community and those that feel they have the right to make life-altering choices for #intersexchildren

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'You can't undo surgery': More parents of intersex babies are rejecting operations Kristina Turner is glad she decided not to allow “gender-normalizing” surgery on her child Ori, 11, who is intersex.

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Ori was perfectly healthy, but Turner said surgeons pressured her to agree to cosmetic surgery to make Ori appear more clearly female. She immediately refused.

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My Life as an Intersexual Max Beck, a man who was raised as a woman, talks about his experience as an individual of ambiguous gender.

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I quickly came to understand that that tomboy—the gender identity with which I had escaped childhood—was less acceptable in adolescence.

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'I was born intersex and doctors tried to erase me. It's important to speak out' Raven van Dorst is the singer and a musician with the Dutch rock-metal band Dool, and a TV personality in the Netherlands. After discovering in their 20s that they had been born intersex, van Dorst is...

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"They saw a monster, and they tried to fix it. I'm singing, you can't fix me. I'd rather be your fucking monster than live the lie you've made for me"

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In Serbia, An Intersex Survivor Speaks Out Against 'Sex Normalization' Surgery A survivor of "sex normalization" surgery talked to RFE/RL's Balkan Service about the operation's catastrophic effects.

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Since seeking psychotherapy as a teen and being invited by doctors to discuss his experience, Randjelovic has become an accidental activist and the only publicly declared intersex individual in Serbia.

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