Today is Intersex Awareness Day! Intersex people are individuals born with any of several variations in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones, or genitals that do not fit the typical definitions for male or female bodies.
#IntersexAwarenessDay
#IntersexAwarenessDay
Such variations may involve genital ambiguity and combinations of chromosomal genotype and sexual phenotype other than XY-male and XX-female.
Around the world and even in Nigeria, intersex children are forced into medically unnecessary surgeries (read up on: intersex genital mutilation) without their consent so that they can be ‘fixed’ to fit into the binary.
These painful surgeries are done seecretly and most times, intersex children grow up not knowing about such surgeries or their identity.
Intersex surgeries on children often come with a long and gut-wrenching list of damaging side effects
Intersex surgeries on children often come with a long and gut-wrenching list of damaging side effects
including painful scarring, reduced sexual sensitivity, torn genital tissue, removal of natural hormones and possible sterilization, combined with the chance of getting assigned a gender they don’t feel comfortable with. #IntersexAwarenessDay
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