On International Intersex Visibility Day, we published a series of definitions, facts, and clarifications that Mauro Cabral—intersex and trans activist, director of GATE, and member of Intersex Justice*—shared on his social media about intersexuality.
Jennifer Gabriela Aranda was born with male external genitalia. During puberty, when her body began to develop female, it was discovered that her internal genitalia were female. Her father and a doctor pressured her into testosterone treatment, but she stopped taking it. Today, she is 54 years old and an activist.
October 26th is Intersex Awareness Day, commemorating the first public demonstration by intersex people. It took place in 1996 in Boston, USA, to demand bodily autonomy and protest against birth defects. The term intersex encompasses a wide range of natural variations in the body.
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