00:00Just existing as an intersexe person
00:02is rounds for celebration.
00:063, 2, 1!
00:16Society generally considers that
00:18biological sex is cut and dry.
00:21Actually, it's not cut and dry.
00:23We don't fall neatly into that
00:25male-female box.
00:27I was born intersex,
00:29and although I was born with a vagina,
00:31I was also born with internal testes.
00:36We live in a society that's so binary.
00:38So, as an intersex person,
00:40where do I fit?
00:42The definition of intersex
00:44is any variation
00:45in a person's sex characteristics.
00:48They told my mom,
00:49you have a child that we feel is abnormal,
00:51and this body was a problem
00:53that needed to be fixed.
00:55Fixed, and that I should never tell anyone about it.
00:57It's therapeutically highly desirable
00:59to have them surgically corrected
01:01at an early age.
01:02I just remember, like,
01:04a lot of pain.
01:07In most cases,
01:08there is absolutely no evidence
01:10to suggest that surgery
01:11is medically necessary.
01:12I can walk into the...
01:15The doctor changed the course of my life.
01:18I did not consent to that surgery.
01:21I had to tell the world
01:23what had happened.
01:27We've just been silent about this for so long.
01:30I'm gonna come out today.
01:33I'm gonna tell the Texas Senate.
01:34I was born with balls.
01:41I think we're at the cusp of something cool.
01:44Our goal is to pass a bill
01:46to condemn these medically unnecessary surgeries.
01:50A huge revolution starting right now.
01:53Hey! Intersex surgery!
01:55Just existing as an intersex person
02:00is grounds for celebration
02:03in a whole world that doesn't see us.
02:07But you know what?
02:08I am intersex.
02:10Intersex.
02:10Intersex.
02:11We are here now.
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