#end intersex surgeries

This is image 25 of my intersex body positivity series.

WHAT IS INTERSEX?
Intersex people are born with atypical sex characteristics: it relates to a range of variations in sex autonomy. That is, physical variations in chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones or genitals.
Many different forms of intersex exist; it is an umbrella term, rather than a single category.  Some intersex people identify within a binary
gender system. Some see themselves outside of any binary - biological and identity wise.

For more info, go on YouTube an look for “What is Intersex? (Pt1)” by Hans Lindahl.

This series was made possible by the help, support and knowledge of these lovely intersex individuals (Instagram names):
@hihellohans,@flexitarianfam,@myintersexstory,@queeringqueering,@dysphoric.sweetie,@pilljar,@emotionell.png

Find more BoPo art here: http://lenadirscherl.tumblr.com/
And here: https://www.instagram.com/bopolena/

I already said it once but I’m gonna say it again: here and now, in our time and age, babies that are born intersex get put under the knife in order to reshape (and sometimes completely remove) parts of their genitals just because they don’t fit into stereotypical definitions of male and female genitals! These babies are not sick. These babies won’t develope cancer or any other life threatening desease (even tho some doctors still tell these kind of lies to the baby’s parents). These babies are healthy and don’t need any kind of operations!
And these surgeries are HARMFUL!!! They are an unecassary risk! And will propably scar the intersex person emotionally and psychologically! How would you feel if you’d find out that you didn’t have a clit anymore because the doctors thought it looked too big and removed it completely?!?!?! How would you feel if you’d found out that you once had testicals but the doctors removed them ‘cause they thought it would be easier to make you look like a girl than a boy down there?!?!? WHAT THE FUCK??? This angers me so SO much!!!
Stop surgeries on intersex babies! It’s WRONG!

This is image 22 of my intersex body positivity series.

WHAT IS INTERSEX?
Intersex people are born with atypical sex characteristics: it relates to a range of variations in sex autonomy. That is, physical variations in chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones or genitals.
Many different forms of intersex exist; it is an umbrella term, rather than a single category.  Some intersex people identify within a binary
gender system. Some see themselves outside of any binary - biological and identity wise.

For more info, go on YouTube an look for “What is Intersex? (Pt1)” by Hans Lindahl.

This series was made possible by the help, support and knowledge of these lovely intersex individuals (Instagram names):
@hihellohans,@flexitarianfam,@myintersexstory,@queeringqueering,@dysphoric.sweetie,@pilljar,@emotionell.png

Find more BoPo art here: http://lenadirscherl.tumblr.com/
And here: https://www.instagram.com/bopolena/

Sadly a lot of intersex people have been harmed by doctors in their lives. These doctors have performed surgeries on them (without their consent) that harmed their bodies in order to fit into a cis-hetero-normative worldview. And it’s still happening  every day. Unnecessary genital surgeries on babies and young children are not okay! It is absolutely reasonable for intersex folks to mistrust doctors and to be afraid of them. (Trauma is real and valid!) As long as the medical-industrial complex is a system that follows white cis-hetero-patriarchal rules and norms, intersex people (and a lot of other folx) will never be really save. We have to change that system step by step!

This is image 18 of my intersex body positivity series.

WHAT IS INTERSEX?
Intersex people are born with atypical sex characteristics: it relates to a range of variations in sex autonomy. That is, physical variations in chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones or genitals.
Many different forms of intersex exist; it is an umbrella term, rather than a single category.  Some intersex people identify within a binary
gender system. Some see themselves outside of any binary - biological and identity wise.

For more info, go on YouTube an look for “What is Intersex? (Pt1)” by Hans Lindahl.

This series was made possible by the help, support and knowledge of these lovely intersex individuals (Instagram names):
@hihellohans,@flexitarianfam,@myintersexstory,@queeringqueering,@dysphoric.sweetie,@pilljar,@emotionell.png

Find more BoPo art here: http://lenadirscherl.tumblr.com/
And here: https://www.instagram.com/bopolena/