1/ With tears in my eyes, and exhaustion in my (decalcified) bones, I want to take this opportunity to let you know the good news: Yesterday, around 5pm cst, @luriechildrens hospital in Chicago (the hospital where my intersex body was repeatedly violated) conceded to the… @LurieChildrens 2/ …demands of Intersex Justice Projects (@intersexjustice) 3+ year #EndIntersexSurgery campaign. I’m still in shock. 😶

This is the first time ever a hospital, to my knowledge, has both apologized and committed themselves to taking steps towards accountability.

I am so hurt / sad / angry / upset y’all.

There’s some things related to my intersex body I’ve recently found out that i havent given myself time or space to process. You would think during quarantine I would have all the time in the world, but naw; I never stop thinking (about other things), moving, or working until I pass out tired at the end of each night.

I see people using intersex people as proof that sex =/= binary...which I agree with. But I also see people on here saying intsx ppl have disorders & are rare, so we don’t count... this is false & harmful. That thinking, peddled by ignorant doctors, leads to human rights abuses. Intersex is just another BIOLOGICAL way of being human. . .Back in the day, we were labeled hermaphrodites, then intersex. When my community started to reclaim those words & organize, docs tried to pull the linguistic rug from below, & label us: disorders of sex development 🤬