Hello. My name is Audrey, I'm 26 and I love to eat curry, drink beers and laugh
with my friends. I'm also intersex and this is what
I will be talking to you about today. People tend to say: it's your
imperfections that make you perfect. It's cheesy but it's quite nice.
My small chest, my belly, my cellulitis and the shape of my toes were always
problematic did not fit into the ideals around the idea I was taught to have on
what a perfect body should look like. I guess you too, have or have had
insecurities with your body and the way it looks. But I am intersex and this is
not one of these imperfections you should accept or learn to live with.
Society and doctors change and stigmatize intersex bodies. I'm intersex,
it means that I have sex characteristics such as hormonal levels, chromosomes
internal or external sex that do not fit neatly into neither of the normative
definitions of male or female. I am one intersex person but we are loads. The UN
estimates that up to 1.7 percent of the world population is intersex, yet we
are alone and many people ignore our existence. Intersex is a human variation.
All humans are different, all humans are unique and all humans deserve the same
rights. I was born intersex and I was healthy. I could do everything a kid my
age should be able to do. Learn, eat play sleep and repeat. Yet, doctors
decided this wasn't enough and qualified my body as a malformation.
So they normalized me. Without my consent they took ownership over my body, over my
personal and physical integrity. After several operations, my body and its
development were monitored. Are you growing breasts? let me measure them.
Have you got hair here? and there? Show them to me. My body did not belong
to me anymore. iIs this normal? additionally my body was medicalized and
I was left with a visible scar. Is this normal? I was alone, I was told to keep
quiet and not to tell anyone. My imperfections made my body shameful...
actually it's their practice that is shameful. Maybe you've been luckier and
your doctors reinsured you or have not operated on you without, your full
informed consent. Well, at least, I hope it for you. One day, I met the intersex
community and it was a real revolution. I was not alone with my doubts and my
shame. I also discovered how empowering it is to be part of something bigger.
No matter the age we learn about our intersex condition, no matter the medical
protocol in place, our bodies are still perceived as abnormal.
And this must stop. The intersex community taught me new words which did not reinforce stigma
over my body and my existence. All around the world we now engaged politically for
our rights. Let's hear what the intersex community
has to say.
I'm intersex and my body has been medicalized without it being my decision
I'm intersex and my body is complete
I'm intersex and my body... is a body
I'm intersex and my body is perfect just the way it is.
I'm intersex and my body is my home
I'm intersex and my body is magic
I'm intersex and when I understood I was part of the enormous human diversity
It was the end of medicalization and medical invisibilisation of my own body
I'm intersex and my body is mine and nobody else's
I'm intersex and my body exudes pleasure
I'm intersex, bearded woman, and my body, my face, are unique, precious, amazing
Just like anyone else's
I'm intersex and my body is not a disorder
I'm intersex and my body is mine
I'm Gory and I love my body
I'm intersex and I own my own body
I'm intersex and my body is a Mozart of nature
too avant-garde for doctors but the interpret of my life is me
I'm intersex and my body is not an "interesting medical case"
I'm intersex and my body is mine
I'm intersex and my body is not a disorder
I'm intersex and my body is unique just like anybody else's
I'm intersex and my body is mine
I'm intersex and my body does not need altering
if you are intersex, contact us. You are not alone, you are loved.
no need to be out just be. And don't forget we will win
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