Youtube Live: Another Gender : Intersex
- If the doctor cannot determine the gender of the newborn baby
- If someone physically possesses characteristics of both sexes
- If more than 20 sexual organ surgeries failed as a child
- What if you always thought you were a boy and found out you have a uterus?
Intersex people are born with biological sex characteristics (including genitals, gonads, and chromosomal patterns) that do not fit into the typical binary concepts of male or female bodies.
According to the United Nations, it is estimated that 1.7% of the global population is intersex. If Hong Kong has a population of 7.5 million, there may be close to 130,000 intersex people, which is a large number. At the same time, most people have never heard of it. Or not understanding intersex people.
Teacher Xi Xi of intersex people gave his own account and shared the challenges and mental journey of growing up:
* How to deal with multiple failed sexual organ surgeries in childhood?
* How to deal with being told that you are intersex?
* Is intersex a disease? Is surgery necessary?
* Do intersex people have to choose to be male or female?
* What can parents do? Is there any help platform?
* Any advice for doctors?
* How can social workers, teachers, counselors, etc. support intersex people?
* What is the difference between intersex and transgender people?
* How can the public learn more about intersex people?
Teacher Sai Sai (Ms Luk Yuet Ming) (細細老師(陸月明)) is the first openly intersex person in Hong Kong. He is also a practicing registered Chinese medicine practitioner, registered social worker and clinical hypnotherapist. He is also a member of the organization "Beyond Barriers - Understanding and Caring for Intersex People" The founder is committed to promoting the equal rights movement for intersex people and sexual minorities. He was assigned male as a child. He underwent more than 20 sexual organ reconstruction surgeries between the ages of eight and thirteen. He was often bullied, discriminated against and sexually assaulted multiple times while growing up. He was diagnosed as intersex at the age of thirty-six. people. Later, the male sex organs were removed due to the risk of cancer, and she now lives as a woman. Because of these experiences, she suffered from depression, but she worked hard to find her own way, stood up and told her story, and continued to do local and international advocacy work. Author of "Gender Confession: When I Write "He"".
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