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* New Zealander [[Mani Bruce Mitchell]] (b. 1953), founder of the Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand (ITANZ), describes themself<ref name="ilga-bio">{{Cite web |title=Mani Bruce Mitchell |author= |work=ILGA |date= |access-date=1 May 2020 |url= https://ilga.org/mani-bruce-mitchell}}</ref> as intersex and nonbinary.<ref name="ilga-meets">{{Cite web |title=ILGA meets… Mani Bruce Mitchell, intersex human rights defender |author=Paletta, Daniele |work=ILGA |date=26 October 2018 |access-date=1 May 2020 |url= https://ilga.org/ilga-meets-mani-bruce-mitchell-intersex-human-rights-defender|quote=my sense of self consolidated, very early on, though we had no words back then I saw myself as non-binary, as queer, as intersex.}}</ref> | * New Zealander [[Mani Bruce Mitchell]] (b. 1953), founder of the Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand (ITANZ), describes themself<ref name="ilga-bio">{{Cite web |title=Mani Bruce Mitchell |author= |work=ILGA |date= |access-date=1 May 2020 |url= https://ilga.org/mani-bruce-mitchell}}</ref> as intersex and nonbinary.<ref name="ilga-meets">{{Cite web |title=ILGA meets… Mani Bruce Mitchell, intersex human rights defender |author=Paletta, Daniele |work=ILGA |date=26 October 2018 |access-date=1 May 2020 |url= https://ilga.org/ilga-meets-mani-bruce-mitchell-intersex-human-rights-defender|quote=my sense of self consolidated, very early on, though we had no words back then I saw myself as non-binary, as queer, as intersex.}}</ref> | ||
* American activist [[Jim Sinclair]] (b. 1940), one of the founders of Autism Network International (ANI)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web| url = https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5488463| title = Autism Movement Seeks Acceptance, Not Cures| last = Shapiro| first = Joseph| date = 26 June 2006| work = NPR| access-date = 29 February 2016}}</ref>, is intersex and was subjected as a child to [[conversion therapy]] in attempts to make them conform to their [[assigned gender]]. In 1997 Jim wrote that they were "proudly [[neuter]], both physically and socially."<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207013228/http:/web.syr.edu:80/~jisincla/brief_bio.htm|url=http://web.syr.edu/~jisincla/brief_bio.htm|archive-date=7 February 2009|title=Self-introduction to the Intersex Society of North America|last=Sinclair|first=Jim|date=1997}}</ref> | * American activist [[Jim Sinclair]] (b. 1940), one of the founders of Autism Network International (ANI)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web| url = https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5488463| title = Autism Movement Seeks Acceptance, Not Cures| last = Shapiro| first = Joseph| date = 26 June 2006| work = NPR| access-date = 29 February 2016}}</ref>, is intersex and was subjected as a child to [[conversion therapy]] in attempts to make them conform to their [[assigned gender]]. In 1997 Jim wrote that they were "proudly [[neuter]], both physically and socially."<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207013228/http:/web.syr.edu:80/~jisincla/brief_bio.htm|url=http://web.syr.edu/~jisincla/brief_bio.htm|archive-date=7 February 2009|title=Self-introduction to the Intersex Society of North America|last=Sinclair|first=Jim|date=1997}}</ref> | ||
* Latinx American writer [[Hida Viloria]] (b. 1968), author of ''Born Both: An Intersex Life,'' says s/he<ref name="Pham">{{Cite web |title=Intersex Activist and Writer Hida Viloria on Being 'Born Both' |last=Pham |first=Larissa |work=Rolling Stone |date=20 March 2017 |access-date=26 April 2020 |url= https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/intersex-activist-and-writer-hida-viloria-on-being-born-both-123818/}}</ref> is [[genderfluid]].<ref name="Viloria2017">{{Cite web |title=If You Claim To Be Sex Positive, Then You Need To Be Intersex Positive |last=Viloria |first=Hida |work=HuffPost |date=7 April 2017 |access-date=25 April 2020 |url= https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sex-positive-intersex-positive_b_58e6d8d7e4b0acd784ca56cd |quote=As I write about in my memoir Born Both: An Intersex Life, | * Hungarian writer, psycholinguist, editor, poet, and translator [[Bogi Takács]] (b. 1983) is an [[agender]] intersex person.<ref name="bogi_Why">{{Cite web |title=Why “women + nonbinary” is not a good idea |author=Takács, Bogi |authorlink=Bogi Takács |work=Bogi Reads the World |date=2 September 2018 |access-date=13 November 2020 |url= http://www.bogireadstheworld.com/why-women-nonbinary-is-not-a-good-idea/}}</ref> | ||
* Latinx American writer [[Hida Viloria]] (b. 1968), author of ''Born Both: An Intersex Life,'' says s/he<ref name="Pham">{{Cite web |title=Intersex Activist and Writer Hida Viloria on Being 'Born Both' |last=Pham |first=Larissa |work=Rolling Stone |date=20 March 2017 |access-date=26 April 2020 |url= https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/intersex-activist-and-writer-hida-viloria-on-being-born-both-123818/}}</ref> is [[genderfluid]].<ref name="Viloria2017">{{Cite web |title=If You Claim To Be Sex Positive, Then You Need To Be Intersex Positive |last=Viloria |first=Hida |work=HuffPost |date=7 April 2017 |access-date=25 April 2020 |url= https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sex-positive-intersex-positive_b_58e6d8d7e4b0acd784ca56cd |quote=As I write about in my memoir Born Both: An Intersex Life, I'm intersex and gender-fluid (meaning my gender identity and expression changes) }}</ref> | |||
* American writer [[Gigi Raven Wilbur]] (b. 1955), one of the creators of Celebrate Bisexuality Day, says s/he<ref name="Funk">{{Cite web |title=Interview with Gigi Raven Wilbur |author=Mason Funk |work=OUTWORDS |date=1 June 2017 |access-date=10 April 2020 |url= https://theoutwordsarchive.org/subjectdetail/gigi-raven-wilbur}}</ref><ref name="2015bio">[http://web.archive.org/web/20150402134257/http://myravenslair.com/gigi.html Website bio], archived 2 April 2015</ref><ref name="newbio">[https://www.ravenslairleather.com/gigibio Current website bio]</ref><ref name="Wang">{{Cite web |title=Gigi Raven Wilbur: Advice on Bisexuality and Intersexism |author=Alexandra Wang |work=interviews |date=4 August 2018 |access-date=10 April 2020 |url= https://howcanibeofservice.wordpress.com/2018/08/22/gigi-raven-wilbur-advice-on-bisexuality-and-intersexism/}}</ref> is intersex and underwent nonconsensual surgery and masculinizing [[Hormone therapy|hormone]] treatments as a child. Some of the words Gigi has used to identify are "hermaphrodite", "[[third gender]]", and "[[ladyboy]]".<ref name="Scott-Dixon2006">{{cite book|last=Scott-Dixon|first=Krista|title=Trans/forming Feminisms: Trans/feminist Voices Speak Out|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4bPqAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA65|year=2006|publisher=Canadian Scholars' Press|isbn=9781894549615|pages=65–71}}</ref> | * American writer [[Gigi Raven Wilbur]] (b. 1955), one of the creators of Celebrate Bisexuality Day, says s/he<ref name="Funk">{{Cite web |title=Interview with Gigi Raven Wilbur |author=Mason Funk |work=OUTWORDS |date=1 June 2017 |access-date=10 April 2020 |url= https://theoutwordsarchive.org/subjectdetail/gigi-raven-wilbur}}</ref><ref name="2015bio">[http://web.archive.org/web/20150402134257/http://myravenslair.com/gigi.html Website bio], archived 2 April 2015</ref><ref name="newbio">[https://www.ravenslairleather.com/gigibio Current website bio]</ref><ref name="Wang">{{Cite web |title=Gigi Raven Wilbur: Advice on Bisexuality and Intersexism |author=Alexandra Wang |work=interviews |date=4 August 2018 |access-date=10 April 2020 |url= https://howcanibeofservice.wordpress.com/2018/08/22/gigi-raven-wilbur-advice-on-bisexuality-and-intersexism/}}</ref> is intersex and underwent nonconsensual surgery and masculinizing [[Hormone therapy|hormone]] treatments as a child. Some of the words Gigi has used to identify are "hermaphrodite", "[[third gender]]", and "[[ladyboy]]".<ref name="Scott-Dixon2006">{{cite book|last=Scott-Dixon|first=Krista|title=Trans/forming Feminisms: Trans/feminist Voices Speak Out|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4bPqAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA65|year=2006|publisher=Canadian Scholars' Press|isbn=9781894549615|pages=65–71}}</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 15:00, 13 November 2020
In 2013, the Organisation Intersex International Australia created this intersex pride flag. The circle symbolizes wholeness, and the colors are meant to not be derivatives of pink (female) or blue (male).[1]
Intersex people are people born with any variation in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones, or genitals that do not fit the typical definitions of male or female bodies.[2]
An intersex person may have any gender identity. They may agree with their assigned gender; in this case, they would be described as either ipsogender or cisgender, although the usage of the term cisgender is controversial with regard to intersex people. They may think of themselves as transgender, genderqueer, nonbinary, etc. An intersex person who feels that their intersex status has influenced their gender identity may identify as intergender or amalgagender. Some intersex people think of their intersex status as belonging to the broader range of LGBTIQAP identities.
Not everyone who identifies as nonbinary is necessarily intersex, and instead may be dyadic (not intersex). Other common terms for "not intersex" are perisex[3][4] and endosex.[5][6]
Intersex was one of the 56 genders made available on Facebook in 2014.[7]
Dyadism
Dyadism is a common kind of sexism, the belief that humans are strictly dyadic, having only two sexes. In action, dyadism is discrimination against intersex people. That discrimination can include erasure, harassment, medical malpractice, lack of marriage rights, religious intolerance, human rights violations, and hate crimes against intersex people. Dyadism is also the basis of other forms of sexism, including binarism, the belief that people have only two genders.
Because of dyadism, doctors think of intersex conditions as an irregularity. As a result, intersex people were given so-called "normalizing" or "corrective" surgeries, often at a very young age, and without their consent.
Notable people
Some notable people who were born intersex and define their gender outside the Western gender binary include:
- Canadian writer and filmmaker Alec Butler (b. 1959) says they/he[8] is two-spirit, intersex, and nonbinary.[9]
- Salvadoran-American filmmaker, actor, model River Gallo says they[10][11] are genderqueer[12] and genderfluid.[13]
- British comedian, counsellor, and playwright Seven Graham (b. 1969) is transmasc[14] and nonbinary.[15]
- Hans Lindahl, Communications Director at interAct, an intersex advocacy group,[16] is trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer.[17]
- Indian activist Gopi Shankar Madurai (b. 1991), founder of Srishti Madurai, a student collective for gender and sexual minorities.[18] says ze[19] is nonbinary and genderqueer.[20]
- New Zealander Mani Bruce Mitchell (b. 1953), founder of the Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand (ITANZ), describes themself[21] as intersex and nonbinary.[22]
- American activist Jim Sinclair (b. 1940), one of the founders of Autism Network International (ANI)[23], is intersex and was subjected as a child to conversion therapy in attempts to make them conform to their assigned gender. In 1997 Jim wrote that they were "proudly neuter, both physically and socially."[24]
- Hungarian writer, psycholinguist, editor, poet, and translator Bogi Takács (b. 1983) is an agender intersex person.[25]
- Latinx American writer Hida Viloria (b. 1968), author of Born Both: An Intersex Life, says s/he[26] is genderfluid.[27]
- American writer Gigi Raven Wilbur (b. 1955), one of the creators of Celebrate Bisexuality Day, says s/he[28][29][30][31] is intersex and underwent nonconsensual surgery and masculinizing hormone treatments as a child. Some of the words Gigi has used to identify are "hermaphrodite", "third gender", and "ladyboy".[32]
See also
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References
- ↑ http://oii.org.au/22773/an-intersex-flag/
- ↑ "Free & Equal Campaign Fact Sheet: Intersex" (PDF). United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
- ↑ Lanquist, L.A. "Definitions". Trans Narrative. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
- ↑ "What tf is perisex". Correcting Bisexuality Definitions One at a Time. 17 July 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
- ↑ "What is intersex?". Intersex Human Rights Australia. 2 August 2013. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
- ↑ Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez (12 December 2019). "Biological and Anatomical Sex: Endosex, Intersex & Altersex". Retrieved 19 June 2020.
- ↑ Eve Shapiro, Gender circuits: Bodies and identities in a technological age. Unpaged.
- ↑ Butler, Alec (22 April 2016). "At 12 I grew a beard and had a period". BBC News. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
- ↑ Helkio, Raymond. "Alec Butler's "Rough Paradise" – Living Life Shamelessly". theBUZZ. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
- ↑ Instagram bio
- ↑ https://www.rivergallo.com/about
- ↑ "Meet River Gallo, The GLAAD Award-Winning Trailblazer Fusing Activism And Art". MTV News. 28 March 2019. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ↑ Gallo, River (21 February 2019). "What I Learned Being Out as Intersex on Dating Apps". Salty. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
- ↑ Instagram bio as of 25 August 2020
- ↑ Graham, Seven [@AddictionExpert] (13 September 2019). "@GrenvilleAndrew @marumatchboxuk @marumatchbox I'm a part of @bbcglobalminds and ? some questionnaires let me specify 3rd gender - #intersex #nonbinary. Others just give 'prefer not to say' #annoying! Also ?s your deal with @BBC. @BBCNews Some surveys just harvest unrelated data" – via Twitter. line feed character in
|title=at position 62 (help) - ↑ Karabaic, Lillian (10 July 2019). "The Cost of Being Intersex ft. Hans Lindahl". Oh My Dollar!. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
- ↑ @hiHelloHans (June 24, 2019). "Just realized that of LGBTQIA, I am 5/7: -Bi -Trans (umbrella: nonbinary/genderqueer) -Queer -Intersex -Asexual (umbrella: demi) can my prize be being left alone" – via Twitter. line feed character in
|title=at position 41 (help) - ↑ "Breaking the Intersex Silence in South Asia: An interview with Gopi Shankar". APCOM. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
- ↑ Pareek, Shreya (27 November 2015). "At 19, Ze Came out of the Closet. Today, Ze Is Helping the LGBTQIA Community Live with Dignity". The Better India. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
- ↑ Nair, Shalini (6 June 2019). "Start with education system for change, says intersex activist". The Indian Express. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
- ↑ "Mani Bruce Mitchell". ILGA. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
- ↑ Paletta, Daniele (26 October 2018). "ILGA meets… Mani Bruce Mitchell, intersex human rights defender". ILGA. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
my sense of self consolidated, very early on, though we had no words back then I saw myself as non-binary, as queer, as intersex.
- ↑ Shapiro, Joseph (26 June 2006). "Autism Movement Seeks Acceptance, Not Cures". NPR. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
- ↑ Sinclair, Jim (1997). "Self-introduction to the Intersex Society of North America". Archived from the original on 7 February 2009.
- ↑ Takács, Bogi (2 September 2018). "Why "women + nonbinary" is not a good idea". Bogi Reads the World. Retrieved 13 November 2020. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ↑ Pham, Larissa (20 March 2017). "Intersex Activist and Writer Hida Viloria on Being 'Born Both'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- ↑ Viloria, Hida (7 April 2017). "If You Claim To Be Sex Positive, Then You Need To Be Intersex Positive". HuffPost. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
As I write about in my memoir Born Both: An Intersex Life, I'm intersex and gender-fluid (meaning my gender identity and expression changes)
- ↑ Mason Funk (1 June 2017). "Interview with Gigi Raven Wilbur". OUTWORDS. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
- ↑ Website bio, archived 2 April 2015
- ↑ Current website bio
- ↑ Alexandra Wang (4 August 2018). "Gigi Raven Wilbur: Advice on Bisexuality and Intersexism". interviews. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
- ↑ Scott-Dixon, Krista (2006). Trans/forming Feminisms: Trans/feminist Voices Speak Out. Canadian Scholars' Press. pp. 65–71. ISBN 9781894549615.