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"Obioma Chukwuike went to an all-girls boarding school in Nigeria, but was not
sure if she was a girl or a boy. “Everybody seemed so worried about my body all
the time. People kept asking me if I was a girl or a boy and I would answer: ‘I
don’t know. I am just me’.”
Kaisli Syrjänen recalls the secrecy and the silence during adolescence in
Finland. “It was a feeling of not being fully included, of not having a space
simply because you didn’t fit into a binary worldview.”
Crystal Hendriks grew up in South Africa thinking she was “a normal girl” until
she never got her menstruation like all the girls around her. “I thought I was
the only person in the world like this. I felt alone at school and inadequate
as a human. I sometimes don’t know how I survived.”
Mauro Cabral Grinspan still painfully remembers how a visit to a small
pediatric clinic in Argentina at age 13 led to a long series of traumatic
medical procedures, psychotherapy and surgeries throughout the years. “They
couldn't accept that my body was fine the way it was. It was a brutal form of
medical violence.”
Across the world, intersex people often suffer from discrimination, stigma and
prejudice, and are subjected to multiple rights violations during all their
lives. Intersex people are born with sex characteristics that do not fit
typical binary notions of male or female bodies. This week, Chukwuike,
Syrjänen, Hendriks and Cabral Grinspan joined many human rights defenders and
intersex organizations in celebrating a milestone that culminates years of
tireless advocacy and grassroots campaigning."
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
