readyset-id: queerasfact:Today is Intersex Awareness Day! Intersex people are born with sex charac
readyset-id: queerasfact: Today is Intersex Awareness Day! Intersex people are born with sex characteristics that don’t meet medical and social norms for female or male bodies. You can learn a little more about what this means here. Intersex Awareness Day is celebrated every October 26, commemorating the first public protest by intersex people in North America, which took place on this day in 1996. You can read intersex activist Morgan Holmes’s account of it here. Morgan and fellow intersex activist Max Beck protested against the non-consensual and medically unnecessary surgery often performed on intersex babies to “normalise” their genitals - an issue which intersex people and their allies are still fighting today. We hope all our intersex listeners and followers have a wonderful day today. <3 [ID: the intersex flag - a hollow purple circle on a yellow background] -- source link
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