Eileen Wong
Appearances
Short Wave
Let's Talk About (Biological) Sex, Baby
Intersex is an umbrella term for biological conditions where a child is born with intersex like physical characteristics or genetic characteristics that don't fall into our society's neat definitions of what is male or female.
Short Wave
Let's Talk About (Biological) Sex, Baby
Once you operate on an intersex body, that patient will need to deal with those complications for the rest of their life. You can't change them back to what nature made them as.
Short Wave
Let's Talk About (Biological) Sex, Baby
Kids were, quote, normalized. They were stigmatized. They were lied to. Their parents were told that they shouldn't tell their children because it would ruin them psychologically. They were subjected to surgeries, including literal clitoral amputations that caused dyspareunia, pain, chronic scarring, basically medical PTSD for hundreds and hundreds of people.