![]() We still have to fight against our bodily integrity being taken from us. ![]() But intersex people can have any gender and sexuality, just like anyone else. The practice seemingly originates from a historical fear that intersex bodily differences mean a person will grow up to be gay or transgender. This puts us at risk in a medical system that can still recommend elective surgeries to “normalize” infant genitalia to parents. Some intersex differences are obvious at birth. While about 98% of human bodies match up with the two paths of sex development we learn about in sex ed, intersex bodies are extra creative: we have natural differences in our genitalia, chromosomes, gonads, internal sex organs, hormone production and response, and/or secondary sex traits, such as how we grow breasts or body hair. Intersex people have bodies that are just a little different.
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