This Woman’s Viral Breakdown Of What It Means To Be Intersex Is A Must-Read

Despite this, intersex people are often left out of conversations, or worse, forced into surgeries performed without medical necessity or consent, often as children, to mold their bodies into binary ideas of sex and gender.

Just this year, Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring, “It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.” 

But that kind of language erases the reality of millions of Americans (after all, roughly 1–2 in 100 babies in the US are born with intersex traits). It also reinforces a culture that treats intersex and trans bodies as something to “fix” rather than identities to understand, fueling widespread misinformation and leaving both doctors and patients without a clear understanding of their bodies.