Hi, I'm Intersex - Part 3 (Clitorectomy)

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Hi, I’m Intersex - Pt 3 (Clitorectomy)
[Trigger Warning: I talk about experiencing a clitorectomy]

Part 3 is all about the clitorectomy doctors talked my parents into, and how and why the intersex community needs to fight in solidarity with Black and Brown folks fighting for liberation.

This episodes's notes:

4:21 — Video: how we all begin fetal development female: http://bit.ly/2ehvylh

5:15 — Abstract: testicular cancer rates in kids with AIS http://bit.ly/2eZ77ZV

8:45 — Book chapter: "nerve sparring" clitoridectomies http://bit.ly/2fxZEgN

10:30 -- Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: http://bit.ly/1aDnQe7

10:37 -- Henrietta Lacks’ ‘Immortal’ Cells: http://bit.ly/19ZzjDC

10:55 -- Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention U.S. Medicine in Puerto Rico: http://bit.ly/2gvoyBD

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Things You Can do to Take Action!

-- Invite me to speak at your org or school: http://bit.ly/2figOxG
-- Get to know the #Justice4MC campaign: http://bit.ly/2geZPyG
-- Read up and join this intersex UN campaign: http://bit.ly/2euZj0n
-- Donate to the Astraea Intersex Human Rights Fund: http://bit.ly/1sDiI1Q
-- Create or join a worldwide Intersex Awareness Day Event: http://intersexday.org
-- Translate captions to my videos: http://bit.ly/2gvzoYh

More info from about Dr. John Money:

"For decades, the alleged success of this particular sex reassignment had been widely reported by Hopkins sexologist John Money and others as proof that physicians could essentially create any gender out of any child, so long as the cosmetic alteration was performed early. Money and others repeatedly asserted that “Johns” could be made into “Joans” and “Joans” into “Johns” so long as the genitals looked “right” and everyone agreed to agree on the child’s assigned gender. The postulates of this approach are summarized succinctly by Milton Diamond and Keith Sigmundson: “(1) individuals are psychosexually neutral at birth and (2) healthy psychosexual development is dependent on the appearance of the genitals." --taken from ISNA.org: http://bit.ly/1pfPi4F


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Learn more:
My EverydayFeminism.com blog posts: http://bit.ly/2geQqqP
First intersex book I ever read: http://amzn.to/2dYHjf0
Thorough & amazing newer intersex book: http://amzn.to/2dXOl1Q
My most recent intersex book rec: http://amzn.to/2ehmWv3
The BEST intersex doc: rhttp://amzn.to/2eaEDbS
Buzfeed: What it’s Like to be Intersex: http://bit.ly/2eaD2CZ
White House Panel (20 mins in): http://bit.ly/2e2wzJN

ABOUT ME:
I'm pidgeon and I'm a non-binary intersex person, activist, blogger, filmmaker and youtuber. I grew up believing I was the only person like me--born with sex characteristics such as chromosomes, reproductive organs, and or genitalia not easily categorized as either male or female--but found out that there's indeed millions of intersex people around the world. In fact, according the UN's latest statistics, intersex people may be as common as natural born redheads!

I want to live in a world where babies who are born intersex are no longer subjected to non-consensual, medically unnecessary, genital destroying "cosmetic" surgeries. These surgeries are considered by many, including the UN, to be violations of our human rights.

Subscribe for a new video every week (or so ;) about what it's like to grow up intersex in a binary world. #IntersexStories, not surgeries!

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