My mother was the same although at that time her doctor told her she had an “infantile uterus.” Later on, I learned in a college class that it’s known as Androgen Insensitivity. When the male fetus rejects androgen it reverts to female. Some people with this syndrome have both male and female parts (tho the penis is small). Many times the women are taller with bigger feet and hands or deeper voices. My mom was tall and gangly. Others like you look and function just like other women but there almost never is a uterus so child bearing is impossible. My mom was able to get married and have normal relations but she had to adopt. We realized later on in a very distressing way that she was embarrassed about not being able to have her own children all her life and kept it a secret. I feel so bad for her. I wish I could have told her there are others like her and she had nothing to be ashamed of. She taught me how to be a woman because that’s what she was. Love is stronger than blood, Mom. Thanks for giving me a good home.
❤ Beautiful story ! I am truly sorry that you didn't get a chance to share this with her 😢. But without knowing you, I have a feeling that she definitely knew how much you truly loved her regardless of how you entered into her life ❤
@@LawrenceRussellSaturnSelection No. This has been happening for thousands of years, long before “civilized” countries started using chemicals. Happened before countries were even a thing.
People are gonna be stupid no matter what. It’s just so embarrassing that they could do a little sliver of research about sex and gender and what actually constitutes those things to seem less stupid (or just to actually learn) but choose not to
@@C0rvidC4rrion Well, for one, gender and sex are the same thing. Second, this is a genetic mutation. Not a “gender identity”. There are still only two genders, and this person can still fit in the category of one. It’s just a birth defect.
I am increasingly certain that when speaking about love and rights as social conditions and treatment that all people are entitled to, we will inhibit social progress. A plurality of people in the United States believe things about the non-normative members of the society that completely block the chances of their receptiveness to accepting the full humanity of the people they fear/hate. Some of these things are non-anglo languages, for an accent, dark skin, non-traditional hetero sexual attraction, being poor, lacking formal institutional education, having too much formal and institutional education, being non-Christian, even up to an including the point of rejecting certain branches or sects. of Christianity as heretical. When people like this encounter anything having to do with intersex, the immediately categorize it is unnatural as they do same sex attraction, bisexuality, and as we have seen, sex with children. Imagine having a discussion about when a person is born with both ovarian and testicular tissue. For them, much of the time, the conversation will stop and they will name that intersex condition as unnatural. Perhaps taking the focus off rights and putting it on individual, group, and institutional *prohibitions* against harming others might put the focus and responsibility where it needs to be--on bigoted aggressors and corrupt institutions.
@@nihilioellipsis The wildest part is that, by every metric, being born intersex is *more* natural than their blind hate, or doctors committing medical malpractice in order to attempt to "gender" someone born intersex.
at least she's not pretending like those other people who like to pretend to be the opposite gender. this is the only scenario where a woman has male chromosomes.
Intersexuality is the term being used today as it was hermaphroditism when I was learning medicine. It’s not an easy life as people are cruel. I’m happy to see you taking the time and putting yourself out there to educate people. You’re brave ❤
Yes that is the term I learned in my medical training, now it is intersexuality, which is likely an unusual term to many people, considering the terminology for anything other than heterosexual. I am grateful for Bloom’s reel on educating many on this term intersexuality, and what it exactly means in this era. Bloom is definitely brave, couldn’t agree more. ❤ This is not an easy subject to speak about or live with, and you are so right, people are cruel, just astounding how cruel some can be.
@@Jen-cx9sf Intersex is the I in LGBTQIA+ so it's not all that unusual. And intersex != hermaphrodite ... the latter means the presence of both male and female gonads.
"What's your gender?" Complicated "What's your biological sex??" Complicated "Well fine what's in your pants!?" Buddy. You're not gonna believe it... But it's complicated
@@davidryke113Actually biology isn’t that simple! Genetalia are a spectrum which I know is confusing because we normally associate it being completely binary but sometimes someone can have both, neither, or in between and just because they were born a certain way doesn’t mean we have the right to hate them or invalidate them.❤
@ben42gamer56 Actually biology is that simple. Someone with a Y will never have a functioning womb. There has never existed such a being in all of human history. Same thing goes for X. The absence of Y ensures no sperm can be made. It's that simple.
@@Averymoasycreek This makes as much sense as calling someone born without the ability to walk not human, because they can't walk upright and therefore are on a spectrum to a different species like a fish or lizard. Biology defines what we are and we are born with it in every strand of DNA.
@@davidryke113Nice. That is both a Bad Faith argument and a False Equivalence. - Nobody of sound mind discriminates against deformed people. - Possessing natural appendages =/= being categorized Human.
My wife had a classmate in nursing school who was born this way. She made the decision to be "assigned" female while in college. Her decision was based primarily by the difficulties of the surgeries to finalize the assignment. (Not sure if I'm using correct terminology... just doing the best I can.) As with you, she didn't have major male attributes which also helped her decision to be female. She had a number of psychological issues due to her condition. She was quite thankful for having met my wife because of her willingness to listen, learn, and share her thoughts in a strictly medical mindset with no judgment or prejudices. They became very good friends and my wife stood by her as she made decisions and went through the surgeries. Thanks for sharing your life with us. 😊👍😊
Ref the nurse story: I can't help feel it's a shame she felt the need to pick and alter herself, in that situation of not having a preference, though I understand why people could feel that way, especially in the past when people struggled more to find communities.
But they can't turn a male into a female, only surgically alter a male to appear so. Having such a disorder of the reproductive system is thankfully rare and you and your wife's support may be life saving
As an Indian in a state where Hindi is a mandate subject we are taught that there are 3 genders male, female and the intersex ( नपुंसक in Hindi ) in primary school .
@@Cħris It is but when I was in school we weren't taught about this in English (as language subject) I just wanted to say that. And as I said in Hindi we were taught that there are 3 genders whereas in English there are 4 . But the common gender isn't really about gender it's based on noun and the neuter is neither male nor female but I feel like intersex is the combination of both with imperfect ratio .
I know an intersex woman whose parents decided she was a boy when she was a baby. She always felt like she was a woman but her parents refused to accept that. A couple years ago she came out and has been dressing feminine, growing her hair out etc. Her parents shunned her and broke of all contact. At first they even forbade her siblings from contacting her too. (Her siblings are back in her life again now thankfully) I really do not understand her parents. She was literally born intersex. Her parents decided to play god and choose for her to be male and now they’re acting shocked and betrayed cause they themselves chose wrong? There’s some weird people in this world man. Also I didn’t know that 1.7% of people were intersex 😯 i thought it was more rare than that!
This is what I'm talking about!!! These are transphobes. They go against gender reaffirming surgeries of CONSENTING ADULTS!! But as soon as there's a baby who is BORN outside of the binary norm, the first thing they do is a gender correction surgery. Then they go around spreading shit like "save children", "children can't give consent to gender correction surgery", "you can't change your sex". Idiotic hypocrites.
s.n thank you for saying that 1.7% isn't that small. hundred millions of people in that percentage, it's equivalent to a population of an entire country. yk a lot of "ur either born a man or a woman" people like to disregard, neglect and shun the existence of intersex people and use them being a small percentage of the world as an excuse
@monicasherman8522 good job demonstrating how absolutely incompetent you are. All of the other conditions that she included were degrees of intersex and should be included.
It's also not considered to be a medical condition but a genetic variation like being born with blue eyes. This is because just being intersex doesn't inherently require medical intervention. Sometimes there are required surgeries, like if the urethra didn't develop correctly and they need to make sure you can pee, but such deformities can happen to people who are not intersex. You can be intersex and be happy and healthy as you are. You can later choose to have gender affirming care but it's not always necessary. If you have a baby who is intersex, choose only life-saving surgeries. Let your child decide what they want to do with their bodies, if they want to do anything. One of the sad consequences is that parents often choose the wrong gender or the child grows up and feels violated because they had to undergo such an invasive surgery without consent.
Is everyone living in the 1900’s still cause these issues seem outdated. Most people don’t know they are intersex till they discover a teste has cancer or they can’t reproduce no period. We have all seen the troupe in every cop/medical drama
One of my closest friends in high school was intersex. The female gender was forced onto him because it was treated as "oh your baby was born as a mix, so now you, the parents, get to choose!" Needless to say, that caused quite a few issues in my friend's life, as evidenced by the fact that he later transitioned to being male. Knowing him, knowing his story, I just really wish there was more flexibility in our society in regards to gender (for a multitude of reasons, honestly).
You can't force a gender on someone..the reality is with intersex people there is usually a superficial non functioning penis or vagina...there is no such thing as a person having two fully functional organs..it sounds like your friend is one of those who is female and simply had a defect of a small superficial penis...that doesn't make them a male, it just means they have an easily flexible defect but have instead choose to be trans
@@avalondreaming1433 Of course, it's just sad that it has to happen at all was my main point. I wasn't trying to create a competition of who suffered more and place my friend at the top; just simply empathizing with needless human suffering.
@@Itsmeeddy literally. And I don't get why people get mad over not knowing the sex of a person. Like chill it's not your business what goes on in other people's underwear or bodies💀
In my early 20s I had a neighborhood child that cut through my yard every day on the way home after awhile we became friends I began to offer her snacks and drinks she began to tell me about her life and family and one day she tried to explain to me about how she was born both male and female and told me she was more comfortable being identified as female but she didn't care if people thought she was a boy She was probably about 11 I think of her often and wish I could meet her again
It's sad because with what's going on in politics ppl like this are gna continue to be made out to look like freaks and will continue to be downed and it's disgusting...let's keep trump out of office and get back to progress
@@Serene80 that was over 40 years ago and we was only on a first name basis I would have no idea how to look for her but I know we would be great friends
We need more people giving visibility to intersex people. More stories shared, more ways of explaining it. Then society will accept it and hopefully stop calling it a mere "statistical abnormality"
That's not how intersex works. Even if someone is born with that condition they still have characteristics of either male or female gender, not both at the same time. For example, the guy from the video was born as a man and he probably would've looked like one if it wasn't for all the surgeries he did to feminize his face and body cause it's clear he's trans 🤷🏻♀️
Feeling don’t beat science. It is a rare abnormality 🙄. One day when they crack the human genome there will be no more intersex because they will be able to take corrective action and this “issue” will be a thing of the past 🤷♂️
Well I mean it is. But doesn't mean we should call it that or refer to it that way. If you ever encounter an itersex person, treat them with love and humanity just like you should treat any fellow human being ❤
Intersex baby over here! I fused with my twin in the womb and ended up with an internal testee and a half formed uterus. Since my teste was my "twin" i call him my tiny t since my boy name would have been tony 😅 i didnt find out until i was 17 after i was having some problems. And while treating one problem we found that little surprise
You are what they also call a chimera... It's defined as a person who has cells from two different sources. Years ago a lady almost lost custody of her kids because she was a chimera and she never knew. Turns out that some of her organs were of the twin she absorbed. So her kid's DNA was showing like she was a relative but not the mother..
@@Ima_meangirlnot exactly the same as the person in the video, but the commenter is still intersex. There are over 30 different variations or specific combinations of intersex traits. Every intersex person is different. Sex characteristics(attributes) is a term that often refers to the internal and external traits of an individual's body. So an intersex person can have a mixture of attributes or charactersistics that are either external, internal, or both.
@coastergirl98 I'm actually trans femme as well. I'm not fully out yet but both my mom and I have known since I was 8. Anyway genetic testing is great! It doesn't just test intersex but also analyzes cancer risk factors and other hereditary conditions. Some more advanced ones can also help establish a healthy diet by identifying weak genes associated with an inability to fully process and absorb nutrients from certain foods or genes associated with certain regions that have adapted for a specific diet.
I see a lot of uninformed comments here. She is not choosing to be another gender. This is an actual medical thing. It’s a genetic mutation of the male chromosome in which ZERO testosterone is made therefore despite having an XY chromosome there are NO male features. They tend to be even prettier than XX females bc even we have some testosterone (hence those subtle masculine features, chin hair, nipple hair etc). Testosterone helps with energy and sex drive and estrogen helps prevent heart disease (men have it too but way less than women of course) and so this kind of person must need some kind of hormone replacement therapy just to maintain good health (heart, bones, etc). BUT it is a real medical phenomenon. It happens. Deal with it.
Its…a disorder. An anomaly that has gender-specific mutations in male or female. “She is not choosing to be another gender.” Yes…yes they are. This is a BIOLOGICAL male as stated and they choose to present themselves as female. Your comment was nonsensical. If someone is BORN MALE but presents as female, they CHOSE to present as a different gender. The comments arent uninformed, this person is just paving a path of confusion, clearly inspiring more confused ppl based on your comment
that's interesting. Seriously it is, but that is in no way an excuse for full grown/developed man to go "ok, that means I can throw on a wig, get breast implants, and/or cut off parts of their body and go "Ta Da! I'm a woman! Let me go catfish straight men now!" As far as the person in the video? They are not apart of the group that I'm talking about, the person in the video was "born" not "made"
In Brazil, one of our oldest and biggest influencers/youtubers, Karen Bachini, recently discovered she was intersex and made a giant video talking about it. It's great to see big people spreading this information, because, as she said in her video, many people live a long time without having any idea that they are intersex people.
They should teach about intersex in sex ed. If sex ed still exists in schools. It’s a shame that people don’t know what it means and that people who are intersex are not included in these conversations.
I was surprised to find that one of my friends didn't know what "Intersex" meant because I knew about it for as long as I can remember. My mom wasn't a good teacher at all but I'm glad at least she taught me that.
In France it is teached about ! I learned about the existence of intersex people in 11th grade ! Feels like nobody listened in that class though, even though it was one of the most interesting things i've seen in biology class (edit : i thought it was 8th grade but was misremembering.)
Good for you. There is nothing to be ashamed about. There was a documentary years ago about how the medical system in the US would preform surgery on babies so they parents could say… “we had a son or we had a daughter”ect… it was pretty heart breaking.
I think this was the documentary that I seen that first made me aware of intersex people. It was so sad, it made me so angry. I can remember watching it with my mom and we both didn't know about what was going on before seeing it.
One of the people in my (ex)church was a victim of this surgery. Didn’t know and reached late teens thinking they were born female until they didn’t start developing and becoming distressed and increasingly dysphoric, and the parents had to come clean that they had lopped off a part of this person to make them conform. Then the person caught crap from church leaders for expressing that “maybe they could have been a boy” instead of the girl they were literally assigned at birth through a mutilation. The amount of hate directed at the person combined with no good mental healthcare that weren’t church leaders led to several self-deletion attempts until the state stepped in and forced some real mental healthcare. That was around the time I went off to university. I hope the person was able to find some peace and get away from the frankly toxic environment like I was. (I use they/them pronouns because at the time I last knew them, they were still undecided on a “permanent” gender and had asked to be referred to with neutral pronouns.)
I’m pretty sure I’m remembering the same documentary. I grew up Catholic & had to go to religious schools, but I def didn’t fit there. I must’ve been young when I watched it, but I was extremely upset they kept that type of info from the child & that maybe they should’ve waited until the child was old enough to decide for themselves. Ik now that waiting on surgery & growing up intersex would prob be very difficult for the child, but it’s still a topic to be addressed. At the time tho, I related it to growing up knowing you’re adopted (like I did) vs your family knowing but keeping it a secret from you (my cousin). I had trouble with some family treating me worse bc I was adopted, but my parents celebrated it & other family members would say things like, “Idk what we’ve done without you.” So even as a little kid, I thought the mutilation was wrong. I just remember thinking that’s something I would want to know & how could they do that to their own child, yk? (sorry for such a long rant)
I remember being 5 or 6 years old (so around 1989/1990) and watching a news program, probably 60 Minutes or something, with my grandmother (who would have been 63 of 64), about intersex people. They highlighted how medical policy at the time was - and had been for decades - to intervene with gender assignment surgery on INFANTS in the case of “ambiguous” genitalia. If the parents objected, doctors could and did report them for “neglect” and do it anyway. These surgeries, predictably, resulted in doctors/parents sometimes guessing incorrectly as to what gender the child was and that child going on to experience severe gender dysphoria, without of course knowing why because they hadn’t been TOLD about their “condition” at birth. I remember quite clearly my grandmother and I having the exact same reaction: “OMG why don’t they just wait until the child is old enough to decide for themselves whether or what surgery to have?!” For emphasis: this was 1989, the “B” and the “T” had not yet been included in “LGBT,”and a literal 5 year old child and a woman born in 1926 instinctively came to the conclusion that children should be allowed to determine their own gender identity. This shouldn’t be so difficult.
I’m glad you mentioned this cuz a had a similar occurrence happen when I was a baby. I was struggling heavily during my teenage years with body dysmorphia & trying to understand what was happening with my body. My mum would just brush everything under the carpet like it doesn’t exist.
I'm but a humble trans person, I'm not Intersex, but I still take time to inform others about Intersex people, the reason I do is because I genuinely in the intended goals of the LGBTQIA, we can't raise ourselves up if we don't help raise everyone else up too! 💜
@gregadams6055 - The I is often in the acronym and has been for a long time, we don't always include it, though, as about half of intersex people don't want to be included, which is of course their right. The other half, however, recognize that their struggle is part and parcel with the struggle of trans and queer people and until we get rid of this excessive bigotry towards a beleaguered group of minorities, none of us will have peace or justice.
My college teacher was intersex and she was the first intersex person I've ever met. She explained it very well since it was a new concept for most of us but everyone was very supportive and understanding. Life is complicated yet beautiful!
The issue though is that any other sex besides male or female, is what we call an anomaly or an aberration. These people shouldn't be ostracized, but we definitely shouldn't create entire new genders over genetic disorders. That would be like saying because some people are born with only one arm, we now have to create an entire new human species.
Intersex is not transgenderenter intersection is when you were born with both reproductive organs. And it's a natural freak of nature, meaning it's not normal. This man was born a man and still is a man. Who wears women's clothes.
@@Julie-wx2gf It was college for Chryseik, not elementary school; like seriously who cares when you're in college. Even if you don't accept it, you know that you're there to learn new shit.
Im lucky as I got to be good friends with two guys who are intersex, they used to get bullied alot for being 'too feminine' I helped them out once when a gang of boys were bashing them, we became good friends, nobody picked on them after that. They are the best two people ive ever met, big hearts lots of empathy just very good people. We now also run a charity together ❤️
My husband’s family had an intersexed friend. Renee passed away a number of years ago but she was one of the sweetest people you’d ever meet. She was born in the 1940’s so a time where it was an incredibly hard to be born different but she never let it get her down. We miss her like crazy!
@@1963heavydbiology terms are words made up by humans, we have chosen to give certain things specific terms. Nature created some distinct features but other than it doesnt really matter.
Every time I bring up intersex peoples existence during a discussion of gender, im always told “but those are incredibly rare cases” now I have an actual statistic to compare it to, thanks!
except intersex people are one sex biologically, doesn't matter what you look like. For example blume is a biological male but looks female. Still male biologically.
@@diathimieyou would never guess she is a "male" without genes tested which is something only possible in the last 50y or less...years ago she would be a normal woman sterile.
It doesn't need to be. Just need bigots to recognise that the week of science classes in first year high school is the start of the field, not the totality. P.S. this is true of every single week in high school.
Argued in what way? That No ITS Not a thing, that Sex IS binary cause that what there where taught in elementary school, that ITS very valid and Sex IS a spectrum so why do WE expect gender to BE binary? Like all those Points are compleatly different ways to argued about IT and all Show a different awareness of "Basic biology"
Stop chatting garbage…. There are 2 widely recognised genders and a bunch of nonsense self refered genders for all the weird people who don’t fit in within society to feel normal for once…. They didn’t like you on the school yard and guess what…. They still don’t.
Biology identify a girl when they have V and a boy when they have P that’s it, it doesn’t matter if u r a mixed of both hormones! If u look like a girl then consider yourself as a girl. MY PERSONAL OPINION SO FONT GET OFFENDED 😁😁
These are biological abnormalities. Nothing wrong with it but they just are. People withou biological abnormalities do not have biological abnormalities so it is reasonable to say from basic biology wether they are a biological male or female. Whats hard
I used to know an intersex man. His parents chose to raise him as a girl but at some point he realized he identified more as a man. I often think about him when transphobes make stupid comments. Your video is such a great reminder that plenty of people don't fit neatly into one sex/ gender box.
Yeah.. It's been the norm for eternity to choose the gender that seems to be most correct and just raise the kid that way. I'm glad to see people like Blume putting themselves out there and educating people.
@@gemmaprince295 You understand that many 'trans' folks are intersex, and even if they're not, it's still the same concept. If you're not trans, good for you. You don't get to decide for other people, and honestly.. Misgendering people should be a legal excuse to punch someone in the mouth. Sadly, though, I'll just have to misgender those who misgender my friends.
@@gemmaprince295Well, while intersex and transgender identities are not the same, they are not entirely separate either. Intersex refers to a range of biological variations in sex characteristics, while transgender relates to gender identity. Both can involve biological and genetic components-intersex through visible sex characteristics and transgender through brain structure or hormonal variations that align more closely with their gender identity than their sex assigned at birth. The key point is that both intersex and transgender people defy traditional binary categories, and recognizing the complexity of sex and gender helps us understand and respect each person's individual journey.
@@Canthus13 but you just contridicted your self so should they be able to punch you ! I don't care how anyone identifies. i still don't really get how they are trans though. As intersex people are essentially both sexes
“Don't we have bigger problems?” is an often heard accusation against people raising awareness for inter and trans issues. The question is not "aren't there bigger problems?" but rather: Why should I have a problem with my neighbor's gender? So far, no one has been able to give me a convincing answer to this, and therefore I don't see a problem with it. We as humanity have big problems to solve. People who are inter or trans are NOT one of these problems nor is it their fight for equality, but rather the hatred that is spread against them. They don't want to MAKE the issue a problem, they HAVE problems because they face discrimination in multiple ways, including mutilation, simply because they are who they are. Aren't the people who say "we have bigger problems" the ones that make gender a problem to begin with? With all their effort to spread their message: "there are only two genders" they don't improve anything, they don't solve any of the big problems of our time, but rather make life unnecessarily difficult for a part of humanity by desperately trying to make something as private and unproblematic as one's own gender a problem. Hatred never solved any problems. Everyone deserves love ❤️ if you're reading this and cannot find yourself able to love your inter or trans neighbor as yourself, you still can ask you if that means hate is the only option.
@@blacktigerpaw1 And how, exactly, is that a problem, let alone YOUR problem? How is the person who made this video "your problem," for example? She isn't doing a damn thing to you.
@@bluesonicstreak7317 The person in this video has a DSD. They didn't choose their condition. However, plenty of people in this comment section are choosing to conflate the two issues, as well as insist (wrongly) that due to Blume's DSD that there are more than two sexes.
@@blacktigerpaw1 Nobody "chooses" to have gender dysphoria either. All the research into its etiology points at it being essentially a neurological intersex condition: it's associated with a number of variations in sex hormone metabolization and uptake. It's not always entirely appropriate to bring them up together - most trans people are unlikely to have had their genitals forcibly reassigned at birth, for instance - but there is a reason most people see them as related. And many intersex people ALSO identify as transgender, because they are raised as a gender that differs from the one they end up considering themselves. Personally, every intersex person I've met fell into that bucket. They are close issues. They are both medical conditions. Pretending they aren't, or that one condition is "chosen" whereas the other is a "poor you, you can't help it" situation is just a mask for bigotry.
That's what I'm saying all the time. Like, the troubles that come with people changing their gender or being intersex are mostly just created by people who are against them for no discernable reason. Sure, with being intersex, sometimes some medical treatments are needed to balance hormone or organ deviations. That can be inherent. But for other people than the affected person, or society, it literally does not matter. If we all just didn't give a fuck, nobody would have a problem. So my collegue is trans. Ok, so? Aha. Cool. Is that supposed to shock me? Does it make a difference on earth? If we literally don't care, it also doesn't matter. All the arguments why one should be against it fall flat, except maybe the religious ones where people say god wouldn't like that. Well, can't say it's wrong because we can't even prove god exists, let alone what they would think of being trans. So that's kinda an incurable mindset. But anything else people go on about can be simply disproven. But people want it to be a problem so badly, we gotta fucking make studies and statistics just to prove them wrong, and then they'll still pull arguments outta their arse (until many eventually run out and probably choose religion again, as it can't be disproven). All this effort to defend people's right to live in peace, because some people just can't chill. THEY are the ones making us waste time and resources on arguing, wen everone could just be like "ok whatever" and the problem would INSTANTLY be gone...
Intersex rights are a huge issue and should be talked about more. So many babies are given surgery to “fix” something that isn’t even dangerous to them, just to make them fit in better with one of the sex categories. This is legal in almost all countries. Bodily autonomy for all, and end the stigma against intersex people. Thank you for talking about your experience in this short.
What stigma? Most people do not even know about these people. And with regards to this person most would assume female based on appearance and behaviour.
@@zegrze Yes, lack of knowledge of the subject is part of the stigma. So much so that people feel the need to perform unnecessary surgery their infant’s genitals simply to make them seem more “normal.”
ı know a family friend who aborted their baby cause they would be born intersex, they decided that cause its so new and the kid would have problems fitting in or something…
I’m also intersex, I have two sets of DNA and was born with external male stuff and internal gal stuff. And it’s cause I have chimera from absorbing a twin.
So interesting, thank you for being so brave and sharing bc it actually does take lots of courage and so I applaud you👏🏻🧡ok&now the human being in me is going to be intrusive and ask,do u mind me asking if u identify as one or the other&may I also ask if u look outwardly one way or another..God Bless and please don't feel obligated to answer me🙏🏻
They aren't nearly so common as stated in the video. The 1.7% figure she quotes is from one paper in the year 2000 which had a very broad definition of what was meant by "intersex". The widely accepted figure is 0.018%
My first girlfriend almost 2 decades ago was intersex. Was a lot harder to find info on it back then, for either of us but I'm glad there are people sharing info now about the subject
This is something I studied in the early 2000's There was information, but not as easy to find. There are actual studies on this subject and found it interesting as part of my gender studies degree.
@tylersteward8917 nea, 2 kids and a wife. But sometimes I dream of an alternate reality where I have more free time without kids and just get hang with the homies.
@claudiagutierrez6336 being in 8th grade in the early 2000s I didn't even know what to look for. Plus she dumped me after a few months cause dating a middle schooler was embarrassing for her. Did reconnect a little as adults, still super cool
Can I just say, as a Christian, I am so grateful I found your video because I had NO idea this was a real thing... It would be dishonest of me to say that I e probably made some very poor assumptions of people born intersex without even realizing it. I never hear that word until your video... And I'm 43 years old. To clarify... I'm not a Christian who judges people. I'm a person who made assumptions about there only being 2 genders, and I happen to be a Christian. I treat everyone with respect and kindness. Thank you for educating me 💜
I wish we lived in a society that more accepted people as they are. I am glad that we seem to be heading in that direction. Thank you for being the person you are.
@@nyxie2877 You need surgeries and hormones to achieve this nebulous "gender identity" based on sex stereotypes all so you can pretend you're not the person you were born.
I was introduced to intersex from a Japanese TV drama in the early 2010s called IS: Otoko demo onna demo nai sei, which discussed struggles of intersex teens. As I watched people in the show struggled psychologically, socially and physically, I wondered why no one talks about it in rl. Thank you for sharing and educating more people on intersex and what it is like in rl.
Thanks for the title of the movie I will watch that. There are also news in the Philippines like this, I remember one of my neighbors before has this kind of case she became my friend but as what was the rumors says she’s born with 2 kinds of sexuality which is male and female but if you saw her you could definitely see that she’s a girl she haven’t open up with me regarding it but the rumors spread like a wildfire. I was afraid to ask her about it cause I might go beyond her boundaries which will cause a fight between us (but then I forgot if I was able to ask her about it cause it’s been a decade since the last time I saw her) The rumors were spread exaggeratedly and me having this memory that she said that it is true and me be like okay 👍🏼 her actions are kinda manly manners to be honest 😅
And people here are still arguing that sexes other than male and female are a thing based on this video. He even admits he is male but didn't develop correctly. He is male with a medical condition that caused him to present as female.
Man, woman, Trans. That’s it, let’s stop confusing people. It’s fine to be trans (or a man stuck in a woman’s body or vice versa), but we really needed to control the 100 genders you’re implementing in your youth
Want to know something super cool! There are XY women who were born with uteruses who were able to give birth! I thought that was really interesting… :3
@@ChaoticAngelKitten It most defintely means they did not develop any male reproductive organs and if they did it didn't hinder their ability to give birth. So yes very interesting indeed.
I can't believe how people are saying "there's only two sexes but obviously there's exceptions" If there's exceptions then there aren't two sexes, some are just less common. And they're more common than you think, because people pretend they don't exist, by saying "there are only two sexes." Even we say we need people like Blume, we mean we value her asserting and giving examples of more than two sexes. "But it's a mutation!" Or "but they look normal" every trait is considered a mutation, and it IS normal, that's the POINT. This is important for discussions of GENDER because for every red haired child there's a person whose body isn't strictly male or female, whise gender you CAN'T determine based on their sex. It is NORMAL to not be able to determine someone's gender based on their sex.
Even if it’s a mix of both, it’s not normal. Because yes they are human beings and deserve to be loved like anyone else. But the fact that this people mostly can’t even have kids is showing that it’s not wanted by nature. In nature we have normally only two sexes. There are people who are born in one body having to share it for the rest of their life. But is this normal? If everybody would have 300 different sexes and would be genderfluid and so on (which has nothing more to do with a gen mutation at that point) the human race would just die.
@@marinaserba7032the ability of humans being able to talk is also not natural, it’s a mutation that no one can explain. If you considered talking normal, then this is normal too.
Being interesex is natural and about as common as red hair. Saying intersex people are people and are doing no harm doesn't require the endorsement of nature. Plus evolution often selects for aging and death of the individual, it cares about populations only. Having a portion of the population that cannot reproduce could have evolutionary and societal benefits as that leaves more people to adopt children, take care of elderly, or reduce resource competition. But it doesn't matter, intersex people exist and have always existed and shouldn't be made to feel a freakshow @@marinaserba7032
wouldnt default be female then? bc before the penis starts growing, its a vagina. BUT if you wanna go even further, our defaults are assholes 😂😂😂 we start as assholes 😂😂😂
Why nobody talks about intersex people at school? They dont mention them in school books, but if you open any anatomy textbook for college (e.g. netter) you will find them. Intersex knowlege should NOT be university knowledge, it should be common knowledge.
@@jamie9063 it's ironic that most supporters of banning gender affirming care for transgender people, will likely also support the practice of forced surgery on intersex babies. It's about conforming to the norm for them, not a concern for damage surgery may cause.
(EDIT: if you have something to say, don't bother saying it in a reply to me. y'all are annoying as hell and i'm tired of these notifications) comparing the statistics to red hair is so helpful. it helps a lot of people visualize just how common something is, even if the percentage seems small! i use that comparison when discussing dissociative disorders (there's more than just DID) because the statistic is similar!
Comparing the statistics falsely is not helpful, does not outline reality and simply makes you look foolish or unable to research The actual statistic for intersexuallity is far, far lower, between 0.017 and 0.038% on average
DID is extremely rare, and doesn't need to be lied about to make it seem more normal. Imagine saying "this mental illness that is strictly born from extreme sexual and physical abuse as a young child is pretty common!" Like Jesus. I'd rather it be fucking rare. Same with intersex. They have so many issues and can typically never reproduce.
@@Lobotobilbo The stats are lower when a more exclusive definition of intersex is used. When those definitions most commonly used are the people that have either both internal/ external organs or ambiguous internal/external organs are accounted for. When using a definition that includes more variation of intersex then the stats increase. Imagine telling someone how stupid they look for their lack of research while you don’t even know how the stats vary from 0.017- 0.037 to around 2%.
Im intersex too! I have the same condition as you! I love seeing awareness being spread online, trying to explain all the time can become really exhausting. Keep up the good work, queen :)
@@MrMultiHerbatnik for my condition? no. not biological at least. i do plan on having children when i’m older, so i’ll have to use alternative methods like surrogacy or adoption
The 1.7% estimate is a rather generous one from what I've read, but even a real small percentage of over 8 billion people is a lot! Also, many people don't find out they're intersex for a long time -- if they do at all.
Thank you for speaking up. I wrote a paper about intersex for my a levels in gemang and I was shocked that so many people (including most of my biology teachers) didn’t know about it. They thought I mean trans people. I think it’s so important to understand that gender/ sex (don’t know which one is the right term in English) is a spectrum. Edit: pls be polite and show some manners. It’s not that hard! We can discuss this topic respectfully.
In English, queer and gender theorists generally accept Sex: horomones/ genitalia Gender: where someone falls socially, emotionally, and phsycologicly Sorry for any spelling mistakes
it’s not a spectrum. intersex doesn’t substantiate that at all… it’s literally having parts of BOTH genders or sexes. but there is still either male or female. i’d be very worried that you wrote a paper on that. do u understand how dna works…?
As a genetics major i can back this up with science and well, precisely, genetics. There are three genetic conditions that can lead to intersex individuals. 1. Turner's Syndrome, 45 X, where the child is a female but lacks another X chromosome. Turner females do not ovulate, and are hence infertile. They also do not have fully develop primary sexual organs like ovary as well as secondary sexual characters like breast. External genetilia resembles a vagina. 2. Klinefelter's Syndrome, 47 XXY, here the child is supposedly a male but has an extra X chromosome which results in the development of both ovaries and testes, might also result in the development of breast. External genetilia may resemble a vagine with a protruding and enlarged clitoris that resembles a penis. 3. Swyer Syndrome, 46XY, here there is no extra or less chromosome, but the Y chromosome, responsible for male attributes might be incomplete or recessive, meaning the X chromosome in these males is in control, therefore they have inactive testes, or in some cases they might not be fully developed. External genetilia resembles a penis but there is no growth. This condition also affetcs the SRY gene which is again responsible for providing male attributes. In all these 3 conditions, there's also sexual hormonal imbalance as the gonads (ovary and testes) are getting affected which are responsible for producing these sexual hormones like oestrogen and testosterone. Hope that helped. :)
Klinefelter Syndrome does not lead to development of a vagina. They still develop male genitalia. Swyer Syndrome individuals don't have testicles, either. You're confusing them with streak gonads. Go back to your advanced biology textbooks. From Medline Plus: "Individuals with Klinefelter syndrome typically have small testes that produce a reduced amount of testosterone (primary testicular insufficiency). Testosterone is the hormone that directs male sexual development before birth and during puberty. A small percentage of affected individuals are born with undescended testes (cryptorchidism). Without treatment, the shortage of testosterone can lead to delayed or incomplete puberty, breast enlargement (gynecomastia), decreased muscle mass, decreased bone density, a reduced amount of facial and body hair, and fatigue. Klinefelter syndrome can make it difficult for people with this condition to have biological children (a condition called infertility), but up to half of people with Klinefelter syndrome may be able to have children using assisted reproductive technologies.. The other physical changes associated with Klinefelter syndrome are usually subtle. Most commonly, affected individuals are taller than average and 2 to 3 inches taller than would be expected for their family. Other features can include curved pinky fingers (fifth finger clinodactyly), flat feet (pes planus), and, less commonly, abnormal fusion of certain bones in the forearm (radioulnar synostosis). Children with Klinefelter syndrome may have low muscle tone (hypotonia), difficulty coordinating movements, and mild delays of certain developmental skills, such as rolling over or walking. Affected children have an increased risk of mild delays in speech and language development. People with Klinefelter syndrome tend to have better receptive language skills (the ability to understand speech) than expressive language skills (vocabulary and the production of speech) and may have difficulty communicating and expressing themselves. Affected individuals have an increased risk for learning disabilities, most commonly problems with reading (dyslexia) and written expression. People with Klinefelter syndrome very rarely have intellectual disabilities." Note: no vaginal development.
One of my aunts is intersex. She didn't understand that she was "different" re: society until she went to nursing school. She was raised as a female; nobody explained things to her. (They were raised in a very religious household, so...). Thank you for making this video! So many people stand to be educated by this one video! ❤️💖❤️
@glenncordova4027 She's never admitted that to me, but her face says so, in my opinion. I know I would've felt betrayed. I try not to talk to her about it because she doesn't like to discuss it further than what I've already mentioned. My heart breaks for her & others who are in similar situations. I've always believed that people fear what they don't understand (for the most part). This channel is sure to bring that much needed education/exposure re: intersex.
Religious upbringings are the cause of so many blighted lives. The ignorance of the religious comes with the territory. Only the ignorant can believe in gods, which is why all those who come to realise that they were brought up in ignorance but are too intelligent to remain there have to leave. The Abrahamic religions are truly a pox on humanity.
There is marvelous variation in Humanity. . No harm in getting checked out, though. But not all males are big boofy bears, thank God, and not all women look like barbie... Also thank God! Much as i may love Margot Robbie! Stereotypes are just that. Reality comes in glorious variety!
People saying "its a mutation" Red hair is a mutation... Heterochromia is a mutation... That "argument" doesnt make sense Edit: y'all still missing the point 😑
Seems from what he said in a different video that his male parts failed to drop in the womb, so would the term "not fully develop" be a more accurate term?
It's a biological condition google it there are variations they can have ambitious genitalia or a fusion of both they are unable to have children due to this incomplete sexual systems of either male or female or a bit of both
In my country, there were a case of 2 brothers who were assigned female at birth because they were intersex (they had this specific condition I forgot the name of where they were actually male, but their genitals weren't properly developed or sth, so the nurse thought they were girls), they lived 27 and 30 years as girls, but they never developed breast, their voice got deeper, they feel so uncomfortable, the younger brother was in military and he's very uncomfortable living in the women's barrack, wearing the mandatory skirt uniform, etc, that he asked to leave the military. When his commander (or general? I don't remember his title) heard, he asked what's wrong, so he explained how he felt uncomfortable with, essentially, being a woman. The commander then told him to go to a doctor, that is when he finally found out he's actually a guy! He got gender afirming surgery and "came out" as a guy, few weeks later his older brother followed. All this, because 30 years ago people didn't know intersex people existed (esp bc they were born in a smaller town where higher education is hard to obtain)
That was common back in the day, the parents and Dr chose the sex. I've read that in followup studies, about 60% of the time they chose wrong. That is tragic.
I look forward to the day when no one feels pressured to live as the gender that someone else assigned to them. Intersex people go through this a lot. It's fairly common that someone will just decide what gender they want their intersex child to be, and then later that child realises that their parent or doctor decided wrong. Obviously this usually the case with trans people as well. No one should have to go through this. We should all have the right to live in the way that feels right to us without fear of rejection and discrimination.
@stormyweather2807 I would imagine so! It's really sad, especially thinking about how these people might live their whole life feeling like they're weird or an outcast bc of this. The sibling in my story only got the chance for gender affirming surgery bc the younger brother is in military, I imagine if he wasn't then they'll just continue on living as girls but miserable
@emberd-l795 totally! I really hope we'll get to that point one day, but if we want to look at the bright side, we're already doing a lot better than like, 30 years ago, obviously we still have a long way to go, but this is hopefully a step in the right direction
Every single intersex person I’ve ever come across is absolutely beautiful. They have beautiful features, beautiful voices, incredible depth of character and the most vibrant personalities. I think this is due, in part, to their struggle - they’ve been through a lot - and they’ve got grit. But there’s also something really beautiful about intersex people - it’s like nature selected the best attributes of each gender and combined them. Nature is amazing. And YOU are beautiful!! 💕
@@MrJeffcoley1being trans is not a “lifestyle” choice. It’s not a choice at all. We are all born knowing our own gender identity. Just like she has always presented as female - not androgynous , not male, despite the fact she has male chromosomes and genitals. Because gender is personal and not about sex organs
Here's what's going on biologically. Basically a small percentage of the male population has a body which simply doesn't respond to testosterone at all. This is why they never develop male genitalia and end up looking even more feminine than most women. The "vagina" they develop isn't really functional either. I hope that helps 😊
It isn't normal. We knew about this before the internet!😂 (We watched the movie "Sleep Away Camp!") Something that happened abnormally before her birth isn't the natural order of things. BUT she should be treated with the same respect as anyone else. She must understand that the only reason that attention is drawn to her is because she is stating she is a male. And that is one of the reasons she is confusing people. Usually an intersexual make a decision on a specific sex based on the dominant presence of one of the two characteristics. It's not the same as a gay or lesbian who says they are trapped in the wrong body. The intersex person already expresses their desire to be one sex or another. Medically, if her body produces eggs she is a female regardless of the outward appearance. They're not going to produce eggs and sperm cells. I think that would be deadly. 😒
People just confuse terms that they don't fully understand sometimes, even if it's not out of malice. But it's useful to learn the correct terms because it makes describing different experiences easier!
@@e.9874 I think they were referencing that some languages don't have separate words for intersex and transgender. Leads to a lot of confusion and stigma
@@W-I463 oh yeah I can totally see it being a language thing, a lot of specifications don't get clarified. In my language we didn't have a casual non-offensive term for gay men until we started loaning the word "gay" from English.
we also don't have word for gay so we literally say the term we use for intersex people. The transition gay thing is very new and the trans words was used to internex people only in my country and now after this gender identify pop out. This identify things are going crazy as now the trans means the gender identify one@@e.9874
As soon as I heard about this mess at the Olympics i immediately felt for you Hun. You had just put out that short about educating Drs lol. I'm so far out the loop Idk if that was before or after the Olympics debacle. Sending love. So glad you're handling everything with so much grace.
I have nothing but love and respect for you making this video in order to educate people who otherwise should have been educated by either their parents or their schools. My great aunt was born an Hermaphrodite (intersex) in 1896, yes 1896. So I personally knew about intersex people from a young age. They decided to raise my auntie as a girl, even though she did have a very small, but fully functioning penis, she also had a vagina as well, but no testicles. If born twenty years ago I have absolutely no doubt she would have chosen to be male in adulthood. She had a man’s broad shoulders, facial hair, a low male voice and very large feet. She lived well into her 90’s. She was one of three sisters, my Grandma was one of them, born in 1898!! Ignorance breeds intolerance and hate, knowing about a subject can give people a new perspective and also some love and empathy 👍🇬🇧🌈♥️♥️
One of my teachers was intersex. She was born in rural Australia to a very Christian family and because she had penis (that ended up being non-functioning) they had her vulva sewn up as a baby and made her take male hormones so they could raise her as a boy. She knew she felt more female from a very young age and once she turned 18 began living as one, but because she’d been sewn up she had all kinds of medical issues. She started menstruating shortly after stopping the hormones and the doctors had to open up a vein in her leg for the blood to come out of because it couldn’t come out naturally, though I think that was eventually rectified with surgery. She was an incredible woman and lived an incredible life.
Nothing but respect for your great aunt and her choices, and you might be right about 20 years ago. But I would hope that people born that way today could also choose to ditch the whole binary gender thing, which, after all, is just a choice about how to be discriminated against by narrow-minded people. I have a tonne of admiration for my friend's parents, who, even over 40 years ago, let their intersex child decide for themself what gender to identify with. My friend's identity has changed in the time I've known them, and while I stuff up and use the wrong pronoun sometimes (as I do for other people, and also with most people's names), that's just fine.
His chromosomes are of a man , he is a man , if you dont manifest all characteristics but have the genetics you just have a anomaly , if humans have 2 legs and im born with 1 im still a human not one news species, i have a genetic anomally , still human just with 1 legless , now i will force everyone to call me leg-o-less , not a human or you go to jail for hate speech, bigot
@@MrRafagigapr and what about people born with 3 sex chromosomes? Is someone with both functional sexx parts just a man or just a woman? Sexx is not black and white as you so wrongly try to assert.
@@kenny995 you wrongly comprehend fenotipocal consequences of the genetic makeup of a individual , despite having more than 2 chromossomes , you are still a male or female , the rule is having only x chromossomes is female and having at least one y is male , for example you can be a intersex , XY , male / intersex , XXX , female / intersex XXXY male , /most intersex people have between 2 to 4 chromossomes , its the rules for naming intersex babies , because they are the most accurate predictors of physical likeness , sadly phenotypes are very diverse in these cases , but the nomenclature helps im most casr , and sorry English isn't my first language. And people with both working sexual organs don't exist , they only work as excretory organs , the common occurrence is female genitals where the clitóris becomes a micropenis , it is impossible to have both sexual organs working and healthy , just watch a UA-cam video on how genitals form in the womb , the same organ becomes the penis or clitóris/vulva so it can't form both , and there is no registered account of a person with both organ working as sexual organs ,just as excretory organs , since a micropenis that cannot perform a penetration it is not a functional sexual organ despite being a functional excretory organ .
I've known about intersex people for a while, a famous runner from my country was disqualified from competing because she is intersex. I think it's genuinely really interesting, how it can present differently in different people and how it really changes your understanding of sex as soon as you learn about it. We know gender is a spectrum, so is it all that surprising that sex is too?
@@Nattile2019do you not realize that the original commenter said intersex? The runner was neither male nor female, but somewhere in between BIOLOGICALLY. That’s what this video is about too. This runner was literally born intersex, but was disqualified anyway for something they couldn’t control.
Now I understand the he/she pronoun problem.🤔 As an English teacher its frustrating trying to teach verbs without using pronouns to show English structure. But living in Malaysia, I love the Malay language because it only uses "dia" which can be he or she. So maybe I can use Dia to talk about you? Dia is very beautiful for sharing dia's story.❤
That's not how intersex works. Even if someone is born with that condition they still have characteristics of either male or female gender, not both at the same time. For example, the guy from the video was born as a man and he probably would've looked like one if it wasn't for all the surgeries he did to feminize his face and body cause it's clear he's trans 🤷🏻♀️
In my native language it's even worse because it's not just he/she/them. It's also in the verbs! We have different form of every verb depending on if we talk about him, her or in plural. It's a pain, really. I like your idea tho. 👍
@@TheBlueClover2012 No not that, I'm not talking about repurposing a plural pronoun (they) that sometimes has a singular usage if you squint real hard but is still grammatically clunky. For the longest time I have wished there was a truly neutral pronoun in our grammar for the ever-increasing number of cases where it refers to a person or where a person should be without regard to their gender. Like the OP's "dia", and "they" does not cut it, that is retrofitting something else into the language (for lack of a better solution perhaps)
For those who are saying that’s so rare it is but there’s one percent of the population is intersex which equals out to 80 million people who are intersex on this planet
Actually that’s not true. If the term intersex is to retain any meaning, the term should be restricted to those conditions in which chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex, or in which the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female. Applying this more precise definition, the true prevalence of intersex is seen to be about 0.018%, almost 100 times lower than Fausto-Sterling s estimate of 1.7%.
@@Stacibytheriver intersex includes malformation of the genitalias so her percentage is quite correct yes if we only refer to chromosomes the percentage is lower but the person clearly talks about intersex of the common definition
There's a lot of situations where intersex babies go throught surgery to make their genitalia more """normal""" or """acepting"""" looking and end up never finding out until they have some hormonal issue or take a cariotype test etc. If you look up intersex adults that had invasive sugeries as infants you'll find a lot of stories of this kind (I think they made some pannel on an intersex international visibility day about this).
@@jacig720Don't know how it is were you live, but for a few years now we have a law that forbids Operations on intersex Babys. I wish this law was put in place sooner.
@@MelodyHayes true, I'm eager to learn stuff my school failed to, though most of the people don't feel the need to and usually end up discriminating others out of their ignorance
@@aaa.............. I’m the same way! I’m really dyslexic and before I was taught how to over come it I was constantly taken out of classes and because of that I never got to learn some stuff. Now I love to learn new things but get made fun of for the stuff I missed out on.
@@cspace1234nz 136,000,000 people that would be... Also if a school has 300 students then 5 should be intersex.??? i went to a school with nearly 1000 pupils, thats 17 students who should be intersex. It was defo 0.
I think people need to remember that groups such as intersex people are both a small percentage of the population, but also that that still means that there are MILLIONS of them! And they shouldnt be discarded as a percentage to not be cared about. Same with transgender people who make up a very small portion of the population yet still make up millions in this world, and they should still have their needs met, and to not be excluded from our world. Also this is just anecdotal for sure, but I know two people who are intersex and trans! It's pretty cool how these things can also coincide.
And you need to remember it's an estimate of 1% of the population. Next, most of the world's population is not in the US but China and India. Also, this isn't trans crap people are pushing. This is something all informed people know of. I think it's great she's out trying to educate others who may not. But for women with penises to hide behind, this is a joke. Also, people are born without limbs, extra fingers, a tail, etc. We still go with the normal 10 fingers and 10 toes.
As a nurse, I'm glad you made this video. Awareness is a good thing. If you experience prejudice coming from anyone in the medical field, please tell them a nurse on UA-cam said F off. 😊 You be you, and if that's who or how you were born, physically, embrace that. If you were born one gender and feel another, or nonbinary, embrace that. Your soul is who you are. Not your body parts. Gay lesbian, queer, hetero, cis, whatever. Be your true self. Life is too short and precious and fragile to have others dictate it for you. ❤
You're a nurse and you don't know how human development works? Someone was asleep in class. DSDs relate to sex, not gender. Karyotype variations are not variations of sex. "Your body parts don't define you" - tell that to the transman who died on the operating room table because she was treated like a male.
@blacktigerpaw1 kinda out of left fild there aren't we. I don't think what your saying is relevant to the nice voice of affirmation and kind support for the LGBTQIA+ community that this nurse was expressing. And you opened up with a Karren attack out of left ballpark. Nice going there.
@n8ram413 Go away christofascist ! There are more than just your christofascist definition of a soul. And apparently you missed the part of your fairy tale book about casting the first stone. How about you just accepting that others have their own truth and you MYOB !
In Brazil there was a very famous csse of a male model that had natural feminine hormones and male genitals. That was in the 80s and 90s. She was considered the most beautiful woman of Brazil at that time. Probably the most famous intersex person yet.
@@jadedavis822 I'm guessing you have no ability to understand what it's like to be one of the 1.7% of HUMANS born intersexed. But no, judge strangers. What bugs you is she's a hotter woman than you ever will be.
@@Sir__Gambit Gender isn't determined by sex organs or sex chromosomes, as proven by intersex people, and as the multiple studies confirm, including the MRIs that show as much, GENDER is entirely determined by the brain.
@@Sir__Gambitat no point did they say be “who you want to be” They are technically male, but has ostrogen and no testosterone so they act and feel more like a she, even though “she” also has balls and a vagina It’s weird but it’s real. This stuff is good to know because if im dating different people, im attracted to a female, not intersex, no offense.
Pretty much everyone who took a biology class in the 50’s-90’s was taught this is hermaphroditism. Nothing new except for a new word for it. Pretty amazing thing biologically speaking.
@@Tomb-Wraithit was a term used for centuries. No longer used, because we know more about it. But you cant blame the past for using a word you might not like anymore. It was the best we had.
This will sound very odd but it’s an interesting story. I worked in a museum in like 2019 making animals into skeletons. I had to record their measurements, sex, etc. This is usually very straightforward but can definitely be tricky in animals with unusual reproductive tracts. I had been doing this for several years when one day I found a muskrat with what was clearly a full “female” reproductive system including a uterus & ovaries AND testicles with a full “male” reproductive tract including a penis bone. The first time it happened I said “that’s strange, I’ll make a note” recorded it and moved on. Then it happened AGAIN and AGAIN. One was even pregnant with a few little muskrat babies. I probably prepared about 20 muskrats in total during my time there so I saw lots of “normal” “females” and “males” as well. When it was clear that this was a pattern, I told my boss thinking we should record this and do some more research and I’ll never forget her response was, “Does it have a penis bone?” I said “yes, but it also has a uterus” She said, “If it has a penis bone it’s a male. Mark it as male and move on”. I did decide to move on but I made sure to note the observation, flexed my skill in dissection and saved the reproductive organs in alcohol. It just haunts me that there are probably plenty of intersex animals as well that have never been recorded or acknowledged in these institutions.
"Wow, I recorded this weird thing among muskrats. Therefore, human sex isn't binary!" If the individual was capable of gestating, it means it was capable of producing eggs. Therefore it is female. If it produces sperm, it is male. That is what we base sex on, bud.
@@blacktigerpaw1can you please quote what the original poster of this comment said that indicated they were talking about the human sex binary? no please, enlighten me, as I am Clearly unable to read what you’re seeing :)
@@teggyber He's talking about intersex muskrats, not knowing all DSDs apply to one sex or the other. They are not a separate sex. If the muskrat was capable of producing eggs and gestating, it's female. Muskrats give birth to live young, so a muskrat having full female reproductive organs and male organs is either a full environmental defect or likely doesn't exist.
@@teggyber He's talking about intersex muskrats and how he found one with wholly intact male and female reproductive parts, which is next to impossible in placental mammals.
You are doing such a wonderful thing by creating awareness about this. And you explain a rather complex situation in a very sensible, concise way that anyone can understand. You should be very proud of yourself. ❤❤❤
That's not how intersex works. Even if someone is born with that condition they still have characteristics of either male or female gender, not both at the same time. For example, the guy from the video was born as a man and he probably would've looked like one if it wasn't for all the surgeries he did to feminize his face and body cause it's clear he's trans 🤷🏻♀️
Speaking from my experience, I don't understand how one's sexual identity can affect a perfect stranger to a point of voting against the right to personal freedom? In my 75 years, I've never been approached or been accosted or in any way be made to feel uncomfortable by a LGBTQ person. That's how I judge others - by what they do!
Me too, I've always been really laid back about sexual orientation as long as it doesnt harm or impact on other people or creatures. I wish everyone would just do what makes them happy instead of trying to force people to validate them. This young person is totally comfortable in her/his body so doesnt ask for grammatical gymnastics or anything, other than to make us understand the condition.
I studied bio chemistry in college and I learned about all the different things that can affect a fetus during development. There are tons of factors like genetics, hormones, and more that can affect the genitalia and the brain while they are developing! It's really ignorance that causes people to be judgemental. I'm so sad that they don't just teach this stuff in middle and high school. Unfortunately, things like religion and traditions will always strongly affect people's views on these matters but talking about things like intersex will help! I love watching the look on people's faces when I say, "explain THAT with religion!". Lol. I stick up for EVERYONE because I know the TRUTH! I'm so glad to see you speaking out and helping to educate others! That's the most important thing you could do!! People just need to be educated! That's it plain and simple!
I'm very much still Conservative and Christian, but even I am confused by the hoops people go through. So they hate the media but eat up the media's campaign against Trans people, believe people have a soul and body but somehow the body can be flawed with everything except for gender... Some seemly have no issues with Autism, a neurological variation, but having a different neurological sex from your body is somehow too absurd?
Yes ---- we need more education however the person in the street will never be educsted enough will they? I wish that this person here would explain what medical syndrome they are ---- no one is true "intersex" that is truly between genders, ....this is the difference between genotype and phenotype isnt it ? ....human genetics
I love your analogy to the red hair statistic. I have red hair and it’s crazy to think that I had just as much of a chance of having red hair as being born intersex.
It's not a good one because Red heads are a single trait. Intersex is not a single condition. If we take the real number of intersex which is .018 and look into the US population. We are looking at around 61,200. the divide that among many conditions. It's not even close to the number a Red heads. You have to be careful because The 1.7 say according to experts. That doesn't tell use who are the experts. I went to the NIH which i know are medical experts where I got .018.
1.7% is intersex and 1-2% is red head. It seems they don’t have an exact number for it. Red hair is that rare because it’s a gene mutation that both parents have to have copy’s of. It’s the MC1R gene.
@@blacktigerpaw1So what is this creator's sex? They have XY chromosomes but they're phenotypically female. What bathroom should they be using in your opinion? Sex is a word we made up to explain what we observe in nature. Intersex people don't fit neatly into either of two rigidity defined boxes. Sex is a useful concept most of the time, but when exceptions occur do we force them to conform in one of two ways or should we just accept them as human beings and allow them to define themselves?
This is a genetic abnormality- its awesome to raise awareness, because this is a person who truly has a struggle.. that fake trans people are taking away from..
@@exhumus all DSDs are sex based. They are not a third sex. From Witchel 2018: EMBRYOLOGY Sexually dimorphic development of the reproductive tracts is influenced by multiple factors. Normal sex development is dependent on the synergistic orchestration of activating and repressing factors interacting in a precise spatio-temporal pattern [6]. Sex determination is governed by the sex chromosomes. The Sex Determining Region on the Y chromosome (SRY) gene located on the short arm of the Y chromosome is the binary switch that initiates the male developmental program [7]. The pivotal experiments performed by Dr. Alfred Jost established the relevance of testosterone for male sexual differentiation [8]. The urogenital ridges develop by 4-6 weeks of gestation as outgrowths of the coelomic epithelium. Subsequently, the urogenital ridges develop into the kidneys, adrenal cortices, gonads, and reproductive tracts. SRY functions as a transcription factor to trigger the developmental trajectory that directs differentiation of the bipotential gonad into a testis during the 6th week of human gestation. SRY induces SOX9 expression; SOX9 activates and maintains the male gonadal differentiation pathway. With differentiation of the Sertoli cells, the developing testis becomes organized into two compartments. One compartment consists of the testis cords that are aggregates of the germ cells surrounded by Sertoli cells and encased by the peritubular myoid cells. The other compartment is the testis interstitium, which contains the Leydig cells and testis vasculature. Initially, both Wolffian and Müllerian ducts develop. The Wolffian ducts originate as the excretory ducts of the mesonephros. Testosterone, secreted by the fetal Leydig cells, stabilizes the Wolffian ducts resulting in the development of the epididymis, vas deferens, ejaculatory duct, and seminal vesicle. Another hormone secreted by the testis, insulin-like factor 3 (INSL3), mediates testicular descent from the original perinephric location through the abdomen. Testosterone promotes testicular descent into the scrotum. Testicular descent is generally completed by 32 weeks’ gestation. Sertoli cells secrete Anti-Müllerian Hormone (AMH), which induces regression of the Müllerian ducts. Ovarian differentiation occurs slightly later than testicular differentiation. In the absence of SRY in the female fetus, the ovary specific transcription factors, Forkhead transcription factor 2 (FOXL2), Wingless type MMTV integration site family, member 4 (WNT4), R-spondin 1 (RSPO1), and the activated β-catenin pathway, initiate and maintain ovarian differentiation [9]. In the absence of testosterone and dihydrotestosterone (DHT), the external genital structures develop into the clitoris, vagina, and labia. Both the urethra and the vagina open onto the perineum. In peripheral target tissues, testosterone is converted to DHT. DHT promotes fusion of the urethral folds to form the corpus spongiosum and penile urethra. DHT also promotes development of the genital tubercle into the corpora cavernosa of the penis and fusion of the labioscrotal folds to form the scrotum. Primordial germ cells migrate from the allantois to the fetal gonads. Differentiation of germ cells to a spermatogenic or an oogenic fate does not depend on their XY or XX karyotype. Rather, the neighboring somatic cells in the gonads influence germ cell differentiation. In the female embryo, germ cells are exposed to high levels of retinoic acid which induce the expression of STRA8 leading to germ cell meiosis and development of oocytes. In the developing testis, the absence of retinoic acid causes the germ cells to develop into gonocytes that differentiate into spermatogonia and proliferate by mitosis; meiosis only starts at puberty in the male gonad. Go to: GENETICS OF SEX DIFFERENTIATION AND DEVELOPMENT Sex development is achieved by the precise synergistic temporal-spatial expression of numerous activating and repressing factors. Deviations from this established developmental sequence can result in disorders of sex development. Investigations into the molecular basis of DSDs in patients have elucidated many genes and genetic regulatory mechanisms involved in this process. Gene expression reflects tissue specificity, programing, and relative dosages to influence cell fate decisions. Genes involved in the initial differentiation of the bipotential gonad include empty spiracles homeobox2 (EMX2), chromobox homolog2 (CBX2), Wilms’ tumor 1 (WT1), steroidogenic factor 1(NR5A1), LIM homeobox factor 9 (LHX9), sine oculis-related homeobox 1/4 (SIX 1/4), and GATA binding protein 4 (GATA4) [10]. Subsequently, cell fate decisions influence the differentiation of the bipotential genital ridge towards male or female phenotype. This process involves a complex regulatory network in which activation of one pathway, i.e., testicular, leads to repression of the other pathway, ovarian, and vice versa [11]. In the developing testis, SRY promotes SOX9 expression. In conjunction with SRY and NR5A1, SOX9 generates a positive feedback loop for maintaining its expression and to promote Sertoli cell development. Two paracrine signaling molecules downstream of SOX9, fibroblast growth factor 9 (FGF9) and prostaglandin D2 synthase (PGD2) promote maintenance of testicular development [12]. FGF9 signals from the central region of the gonad to promote SOX9 expression and antagonize WNT4 signaling. Other genes relevant for testicular differentiation include CITED4 and other members of the SOX family, i.e. SOX3, SOX10, and SOX13 [13]. Rather than being the “default pathway”, differentiation of the ovary is an active process dependent on the activity of specific factors. WNT4 suppresses SOX9 expression in the pre-granulosa cell of the developing ovary. WNT4 and RSPO1 stabilize β-catenin expression. FOXL2 is another ovarian transcription factor and nuclear protein crucial for differentiation and maintenance of ovarian differentiation [14]. The proteins, WNT4 and RSPO1, promote β-catenin accumulation in the nucleus where it interacts with LEF1 to promote transcription of other genes. FOXL2 and β-catenin also repress SOX9 expression. The WNT4 pathway upregulates follistatin, which inhibits activin B and prevents formation of the testis-specific vasculature [15]. Recent data derived from mouse studies suggest that the orphan nuclear receptor, chicken ovalbumin upstream promoter transcription factor II (COUP-TFII) may play an active role in eliminating the Wolffian ducts in females [16]. We didn't "invent" sex. It's a two billion year old reality, f.uckface.
People like to be ignorant. When you see a redhead, you know they're a redhead because of their hair, or their skin. But when you see an intersex person, you might not know they're intersex. So these people pretend that intersex people don't exist, it's a very "out of sight, out of mind" mentality... By extentsion, this is the case for trans people, disabled people, neurodivergent people... etc. Society likes to pretend we don't exist when they were the ones who made us hide in the first place :(
Now that's a good comment.. Unfortunately for many people it is easier to hate, bc understanding requires brainpower, and insight.. and alot of people are not willing ( or able ) to make such efforts, in life :D
I learned a few years ago that I was also intersex AND had some of my features removed, without knowing or having given consent, when I was a kid. I also learned that mild forms of intersexism occur so often, that a lot of people are intersex and they don't even know it! Biological sex really do be fluid.
Thank you for sharing your experience. It’s so incredibly important that people are aware this is happening to children every day. No child should be violated like you were. Those doctors were wrong to do that to you without consent and without informing you. I’m so sorry that happened to you, it never should’ve happened.
@@Super_Grover_the doctors didn’t do anything 😂😂 that’s the parents choice When your a minor ALL medical decisions is done by your parents - doctors can advise but they can’t do shit really cause the parents have the last say on what happens - and will find another doctor to help them - often will get backyard jobs done too … So stopping doctor’s ain’t the problems cause then you’ll start having a lot more parents mutilating their kids bodies at least when doctors do it it’s safe … It’s a societal problems where parents are horrified and think they have to just choose 1 gender to not have a child freak
No, it doesn't. Biological sex is absolute, and determined by the type of gamete your body produces or would produce if it doesn't. Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, the cause of this condition, is a condition causing the complete inability of the body to react to male hormones(androgens). Hence, the testicles never descend before birth, staying near the kidneys, and the body doesn't react to androgens. But, it's still a male body, as it isn't geared towards production of the female gamete. As said in the video, biologically male.
thank you for making this. my mother, a former neonatal nurse, used to tell me about this sort of thing happening a lot more often than people talk about, and that any "corrective" surgeries were rarely reported, so unless something's changed, I find it hard to believe that 1.7 is more than a very conservative estimate. later in life, I came across Alice Dreggar's lecture Is Anatomy Destiny on the subject. one of the less awful ted talks. i think it's actually quite good. between intersex, the friends I've had with extra digits, the women I've dated who were born with tails, and my own fun adventures with a tremor that somehow increases my life span and strength, I find it hard to reconcile black and white thinking.
@@toneenorman2135 10 year bonus, on average. The studies looked at lifespans of people with and without familial essential tremors. They don't talk about strength, but everyone in my family who got the tremor also got that. We can beat armwrestlers with arms four times our size, so I assume that's the cause, but maybe it's something else. It does keep our muscles pretty toned, seeing as they're activated fairly constantly.
@@toneenorman2135 lol. Plus, the only treatment known for most of my life was alcohol. That part's not anecdotal, like the strength thing. Apparently, weight training helps. Just learned that today. It's funny how long it took for stience to figure that out, compared with the alcohol.
Unfortunately a lot of people throw it out and say "it's such a small number of the population it doesn't matter, so no, there's only 2 sexes" when intersex is a literal 3rd sex with many, many combinations and ways of being such.
@@Fearsia Intersex is NOT a third sex and no actual scientific paper backs your claim. All DSDs are sex based. XO - female Swyer XY - female, no SRY XXY - Klinefelter, male XYY - Jacobs Syndrome, male De la Chapelle - No AMH, Wolffian development, male Ovotestes - does NOT produce both functional sets of gametes or genitalia, generally male Evolution makes sure there is ONLY two sexes, purely because of the cost of reproduction. You r.etards take Karyotypes as separate sexes despite being told repeatedly that isn't true.
My mother was the same although at that time her doctor told her she had an “infantile uterus.” Later on, I learned in a college class that it’s known as Androgen Insensitivity. When the male fetus rejects androgen it reverts to female. Some people with this syndrome have both male and female parts (tho the penis is small). Many times the women are taller with bigger feet and hands or deeper voices. My mom was tall and gangly. Others like you look and function just like other women but there almost never is a uterus so child bearing is impossible. My mom was able to get married and have normal relations but she had to adopt. We realized later on in a very distressing way that she was embarrassed about not being able to have her own children all her life and kept it a secret. I feel so bad for her. I wish I could have told her there are others like her and she had nothing to be ashamed of. She taught me how to be a woman because that’s what she was. Love is stronger than blood, Mom. Thanks for giving me a good home.
Oh thank you for sharing such a beautiful tribute to your mom. ❤
❤ Beautiful story ! I am truly sorry that you didn't get a chance to share this with her 😢. But without knowing you, I have a feeling that she definitely knew how much you truly loved her regardless of how you entered into her life ❤
I'm really proud of you AND your mother. You sound like wonderful women ❤️
Nobody should feel ashamed of who they are born to be.
@@LawrenceRussellSaturnSelection No. This has been happening for thousands of years, long before “civilized” countries started using chemicals. Happened before countries were even a thing.
It really gets on my nerves that people forget intersex is a thing. “You’re either a man or a woman” 😂
People usually say that to fake transistors. I personally have never seen people go after intersex people, even conservatives.
There is only 2 genders, male and political /s
People are gonna be stupid no matter what. It’s just so embarrassing that they could do a little sliver of research about sex and gender and what actually constitutes those things to seem less stupid (or just to actually learn) but choose not to
It’s a genetic mutation, not a gender identity. The exception proves the rule. There are still only two genders.
@@C0rvidC4rrion Well, for one, gender and sex are the same thing. Second, this is a genetic mutation. Not a “gender identity”. There are still only two genders, and this person can still fit in the category of one. It’s just a birth defect.
Yes people, intersex is a real thing, and intersex people are entitled to just as much love and understanding as everyone else!
Where the
I am increasingly certain that when speaking about love and rights as social conditions and treatment that all people are entitled to, we will inhibit social progress. A plurality of people in the United States believe things about the non-normative members of the society that completely block the chances of their receptiveness to accepting the full humanity of the people they fear/hate. Some of these things are non-anglo languages, for an accent, dark skin, non-traditional hetero sexual attraction, being poor, lacking formal institutional education, having too much formal and institutional education, being non-Christian, even up to an including the point of rejecting certain branches or sects. of Christianity as heretical.
When people like this encounter anything having to do with intersex, the immediately categorize it is unnatural as they do same sex attraction, bisexuality, and as we have seen, sex with children.
Imagine having a discussion about when a person is born with both ovarian and testicular tissue. For them, much of the time, the conversation will stop and they will name that intersex condition as unnatural.
Perhaps taking the focus off rights and putting it on individual, group, and institutional *prohibitions* against harming others might put the focus and responsibility where it needs to be--on bigoted aggressors and corrupt institutions.
@@nihilioellipsis The wildest part is that, by every metric, being born intersex is *more* natural than their blind hate, or doctors committing medical malpractice in order to attempt to "gender" someone born intersex.
Absolutely. One day we will get to the place in this world where we accept one another exactly as we are. ❤❤❤
at least she's not pretending like those other people who like to pretend to be the opposite gender. this is the only scenario where a woman has male chromosomes.
Intersexuality is the term being used today as it was hermaphroditism when I was learning medicine. It’s not an easy life as people are cruel. I’m happy to see you taking the time and putting yourself out there to educate people. You’re brave ❤
Yes that is the term I learned in my medical training, now it is intersexuality, which is likely an unusual term to many people, considering the terminology for anything other than heterosexual. I am grateful for Bloom’s reel on educating many on this term intersexuality, and what it exactly means in this era. Bloom is definitely brave, couldn’t agree more. ❤ This is not an easy subject to speak about or live with, and you are so right, people are cruel, just astounding how cruel some can be.
humans aren't hermaphrodites anyways.
@@Jen-cx9sf DSDs are developmental disorders, not sexualities.
Blume has no female gonads and therefore is not a hermaphrodite ... that term is not synonymous with intersex.
@@Jen-cx9sf Intersex is the I in LGBTQIA+ so it's not all that unusual. And intersex != hermaphrodite ... the latter means the presence of both male and female gonads.
"What's your gender?"
Complicated
"What's your biological sex??"
Complicated
"Well fine what's in your pants!?"
Buddy. You're not gonna believe it... But it's complicated
Takes x-ray of pelvis. "Your a male". Not that complicated.
@@davidryke113Actually biology isn’t that simple! Genetalia are a spectrum which I know is confusing because we normally associate it being completely binary but sometimes someone can have both, neither, or in between and just because they were born a certain way doesn’t mean we have the right to hate them or invalidate them.❤
@ben42gamer56 Actually biology is that simple. Someone with a Y will never have a functioning womb. There has never existed such a being in all of human history. Same thing goes for X. The absence of Y ensures no sperm can be made. It's that simple.
@@Averymoasycreek This makes as much sense as calling someone born without the ability to walk not human, because they can't walk upright and therefore are on a spectrum to a different species like a fish or lizard. Biology defines what we are and we are born with it in every strand of DNA.
@@davidryke113Nice. That is both a Bad Faith argument and a False Equivalence.
- Nobody of sound mind discriminates against deformed people.
- Possessing natural appendages =/= being categorized Human.
"What gender are you?"
"I'm still in character selection mode."
🤣 funniest comment ever!
I think seeing it this way is kinda nice perspective 😊
Stolen comment
@@sharp5687 Correct. It wasn't mine first.
Good for you lol. 👍
My wife had a classmate in nursing school who was born this way. She made the decision to be "assigned" female while in college. Her decision was based primarily by the difficulties of the surgeries to finalize the assignment. (Not sure if I'm using correct terminology... just doing the best I can.) As with you, she didn't have major male attributes which also helped her decision to be female. She had a number of psychological issues due to her condition. She was quite thankful for having met my wife because of her willingness to listen, learn, and share her thoughts in a strictly medical mindset with no judgment or prejudices. They became very good friends and my wife stood by her as she made decisions and went through the surgeries.
Thanks for sharing your life with us. 😊👍😊
Your wife sounds like a guardian angel 💋
You are a beautiful lady darlin, FKem with there judgements.
And best wishes sweet heart on your journey. 😊
Ref the nurse story: I can't help feel it's a shame she felt the need to pick and alter herself, in that situation of not having a preference, though I understand why people could feel that way, especially in the past when people struggled more to find communities.
But they can't turn a male into a female, only surgically alter a male to appear so. Having such a disorder of the reproductive system is thankfully rare and you and your wife's support may be life saving
You are a gorgeous human being ❤
As an Indian in a state where Hindi is a mandate subject we are taught that there are 3 genders male, female and the intersex ( नपुंसक in Hindi ) in primary school .
Thats actually quite cool ngl❤
Isn’t that grammatical gender though?
@@Cħris It is but when I was in school we weren't taught about this in English (as language subject) I just wanted to say that. And as I said in Hindi we were taught that there are 3 genders whereas in English there are 4 . But the common gender isn't really about gender it's based on noun and the neuter is neither male nor female but I feel like intersex is the combination of both with imperfect ratio .
@@navalrathore9199 I think the proper term for “intersex” in grammatical gender is “neuter”. There was just a little confusion between the two terms
Same here in Germany
I know an intersex woman whose parents decided she was a boy when she was a baby. She always felt like she was a woman but her parents refused to accept that. A couple years ago she came out and has been dressing feminine, growing her hair out etc. Her parents shunned her and broke of all contact. At first they even forbade her siblings from contacting her too. (Her siblings are back in her life again now thankfully) I really do not understand her parents. She was literally born intersex. Her parents decided to play god and choose for her to be male and now they’re acting shocked and betrayed cause they themselves chose wrong? There’s some weird people in this world man.
Also I didn’t know that 1.7% of people were intersex 😯 i thought it was more rare than that!
That's ri-goddamn-diculous. Her asshat parents were the ones that literally chose, like you said.
This is what I'm talking about!!! These are transphobes. They go against gender reaffirming surgeries of CONSENTING ADULTS!! But as soon as there's a baby who is BORN outside of the binary norm, the first thing they do is a gender correction surgery.
Then they go around spreading shit like "save children", "children can't give consent to gender correction surgery", "you can't change your sex". Idiotic hypocrites.
s.n thank you for saying that 1.7% isn't that small. hundred millions of people in that percentage, it's equivalent to a population of an entire country. yk a lot of "ur either born a man or a woman" people like to disregard, neglect and shun the existence of intersex people and use them being a small percentage of the world as an excuse
Man that is absolutely terrible
@monicasherman8522 good job demonstrating how absolutely incompetent you are. All of the other conditions that she included were degrees of intersex and should be included.
It's also not considered to be a medical condition but a genetic variation like being born with blue eyes. This is because just being intersex doesn't inherently require medical intervention. Sometimes there are required surgeries, like if the urethra didn't develop correctly and they need to make sure you can pee, but such deformities can happen to people who are not intersex.
You can be intersex and be happy and healthy as you are. You can later choose to have gender affirming care but it's not always necessary. If you have a baby who is intersex, choose only life-saving surgeries. Let your child decide what they want to do with their bodies, if they want to do anything. One of the sad consequences is that parents often choose the wrong gender or the child grows up and feels violated because they had to undergo such an invasive surgery without consent.
Well said. Thank you
Is everyone living in the 1900’s still cause these issues seem outdated. Most people don’t know they are intersex till they discover a teste has cancer or they can’t reproduce no period. We have all seen the troupe in every cop/medical drama
It is a medical condition it keeps you from reproducing in most cases
This is exactly why we shouldn't make kids take puberty blockers.
I understand what you’re trying to do here but it’s not a variation.. subjects usually have reproductive difficulties or can’t reproduce naturally.
One of my closest friends in high school was intersex. The female gender was forced onto him because it was treated as "oh your baby was born as a mix, so now you, the parents, get to choose!" Needless to say, that caused quite a few issues in my friend's life, as evidenced by the fact that he later transitioned to being male. Knowing him, knowing his story, I just really wish there was more flexibility in our society in regards to gender (for a multitude of reasons, honestly).
You can't force a gender on someone..the reality is with intersex people there is usually a superficial non functioning penis or vagina...there is no such thing as a person having two fully functional organs..it sounds like your friend is one of those who is female and simply had a defect of a small superficial penis...that doesn't make them a male, it just means they have an easily flexible defect but have instead choose to be trans
Well, he has a MUCH easier time today than he would have had 30 years ago.
@@avalondreaming1433 Of course, it's just sad that it has to happen at all was my main point. I wasn't trying to create a competition of who suffered more and place my friend at the top; just simply empathizing with needless human suffering.
Trump 2024.
@@dimitar297troll
"what are you, boy or girl"
"I'm stunning 💁♀️"
Truth. No one is talking about how pretty she is
@@Itsmeeddy You wouldn't be here if they were ugly.
Interesting 🎉😊
@@Itsmeeddy literally. And I don't get why people get mad over not knowing the sex of a person. Like chill it's not your business what goes on in other people's underwear or bodies💀
In my early 20s I had a neighborhood child that cut through my yard every day on the way home after awhile we became friends I began to offer her snacks and drinks she began to tell me about her life and family and one day she tried to explain to me about how she was born both male and female and told me she was more comfortable being identified as female but she didn't care if people thought she was a boy
She was probably about 11
I think of her often and wish I could meet her again
It's sad because with what's going on in politics ppl like this are gna continue to be made out to look like freaks and will continue to be downed and it's disgusting...let's keep trump out of office and get back to progress
Have you ever tried to look her up online?
That’s a sweet memory I hope she’s doing ok wherever she is in the world
@@Serene80 that was over 40 years ago and we was only on a first name basis I would have no idea how to look for her but I know we would be great friends
Was this in California by any chance?
We need more people giving visibility to intersex people. More stories shared, more ways of explaining it. Then society will accept it and hopefully stop calling it a mere "statistical abnormality"
That's not how intersex works. Even if someone is born with that condition they still have characteristics of either male or female gender, not both at the same time. For example, the guy from the video was born as a man and he probably would've looked like one if it wasn't for all the surgeries he did to feminize his face and body cause it's clear he's trans 🤷🏻♀️
Feeling don’t beat science. It is a rare abnormality 🙄. One day when they crack the human genome there will be no more intersex because they will be able to take corrective action and this “issue” will be a thing of the past 🤷♂️
Well I mean it is. But doesn't mean we should call it that or refer to it that way. If you ever encounter an itersex person, treat them with love and humanity just like you should treat any fellow human being ❤
I'm trans and a redhead, two things that are under 2%. It's fascinating (though also crap) what society accepts in their minority.
2.8% de la población es intersexual, equivale a más de 200 Millones de vidas incomprendidas @@MsMtheory
Dear Lord, idc what ur gender, u r frickin absolutely stunningly beautiful.
Lol, you're embarassing.
Facts.
@@bobbobbington3615shitting on people because they say nice things to someone is embarrassing. You should be embarrassed, pal.
@@bobbobbington3615I mean, the fact that it's kinda cringe to say it out loud in this sort of parasocial relationship doesn't make it wrong....
@@bobbobbington3615complimenting people is embarrassing…?
You are what you are! Boy, girl, intersex, bit of each? All is good. No one should be discriminated against
Intersex baby over here! I fused with my twin in the womb and ended up with an internal testee and a half formed uterus. Since my teste was my "twin" i call him my tiny t since my boy name would have been tony 😅 i didnt find out until i was 17 after i was having some problems. And while treating one problem we found that little surprise
You are what they also call a chimera... It's defined as a person who has cells from two different sources. Years ago a lady almost lost custody of her kids because she was a chimera and she never knew. Turns out that some of her organs were of the twin she absorbed. So her kid's DNA was showing like she was a relative but not the mother..
That’s not the same thing.
@@Ima_meangirlit’s not the same, but another kind of intersex body. There isn’t one kind of intersex body, it can depend on a lot of different things.
@@Ima_meangirlnot exactly the same as the person in the video, but the commenter is still intersex. There are over 30 different variations or specific combinations of intersex traits. Every intersex person is different. Sex characteristics(attributes) is a term that often refers to the internal and external traits of an individual's body. So an intersex person can have a mixture of attributes or charactersistics that are either external, internal, or both.
@@Ima_meangirlthey weren't saying it was, they're just fall under the same category of Intersex
Found out recently during some fertility testing that I'm actually xx-male. Really fascinating subject to delve into.
That's super cool. As a non binary trans femme, I would love to get tested.
@coastergirl98 I'm actually trans femme as well. I'm not fully out yet but both my mom and I have known since I was 8. Anyway genetic testing is great! It doesn't just test intersex but also analyzes cancer risk factors and other hereditary conditions. Some more advanced ones can also help establish a healthy diet by identifying weak genes associated with an inability to fully process and absorb nutrients from certain foods or genes associated with certain regions that have adapted for a specific diet.
@@OofGP I get the feeling that you need mental help
@@coastergirl98 nah, you need help. Wtf is a "non binary trans femme"
@@OofGP google is free
I see a lot of uninformed comments here. She is not choosing to be another gender. This is an actual medical thing. It’s a genetic mutation of the male chromosome in which ZERO testosterone is made therefore despite having an XY chromosome there are NO male features. They tend to be even prettier than XX females bc even we have some testosterone (hence those subtle masculine features, chin hair, nipple hair etc). Testosterone helps with energy and sex drive and estrogen helps prevent heart disease (men have it too but way less than women of course) and so this kind of person must need some kind of hormone replacement therapy just to maintain good health (heart, bones, etc). BUT it is a real medical phenomenon. It happens. Deal with it.
Its…a disorder. An anomaly that has gender-specific mutations in male or female. “She is not choosing to be another gender.” Yes…yes they are. This is a BIOLOGICAL male as stated and they choose to present themselves as female. Your comment was nonsensical. If someone is BORN MALE but presents as female, they CHOSE to present as a different gender. The comments arent uninformed, this person is just paving a path of confusion, clearly inspiring more confused ppl based on your comment
But gay and trans want this so be an LGbt thing and it has nothing to do with that shit
that's interesting. Seriously it is, but that is in no way an excuse for full grown/developed man to go "ok, that means I can throw on a wig, get breast implants, and/or cut off parts of their body and go "Ta Da! I'm a woman! Let me go catfish straight men now!"
As far as the person in the video? They are not apart of the group that I'm talking about, the person in the video was "born" not "made"
We understand what intersex is but why has it been assimilated into the LGBTQIA+ gender Borg?
Qui k question...can you get pregnant or impregnate self?
In Brazil, one of our oldest and biggest influencers/youtubers, Karen Bachini, recently discovered she was intersex and made a giant video talking about it. It's great to see big people spreading this information, because, as she said in her video, many people live a long time without having any idea that they are intersex people.
@@juliasa6014 DSDs aren't separate sexes.
@@blacktigerpaw1 Okay, so?
@@juliasa6014 You're promoting misinformation.
They should teach about intersex in sex ed. If sex ed still exists in schools. It’s a shame that people don’t know what it means and that people who are intersex are not included in these conversations.
It’s called health now not sex ed
they do, at least where im from
I was surprised to find that one of my friends didn't know what "Intersex" meant because I knew about it for as long as I can remember. My mom wasn't a good teacher at all but I'm glad at least she taught me that.
Sex ed hasn't existed in schools in my area for a very long time, thanks to puritanical idiots. It really hasn't done us a lot of favors
In France it is teached about ! I learned about the existence of intersex people in 11th grade ! Feels like nobody listened in that class though, even though it was one of the most interesting things i've seen in biology class
(edit : i thought it was 8th grade but was misremembering.)
Good for you. There is nothing to be ashamed about. There was a documentary years ago about how the medical system in the US would preform surgery on babies so they parents could say… “we had a son or we had a daughter”ect… it was pretty heart breaking.
I think this was the documentary that I seen that first made me aware of intersex people. It was so sad, it made me so angry. I can remember watching it with my mom and we both didn't know about what was going on before seeing it.
One of the people in my (ex)church was a victim of this surgery. Didn’t know and reached late teens thinking they were born female until they didn’t start developing and becoming distressed and increasingly dysphoric, and the parents had to come clean that they had lopped off a part of this person to make them conform. Then the person caught crap from church leaders for expressing that “maybe they could have been a boy” instead of the girl they were literally assigned at birth through a mutilation. The amount of hate directed at the person combined with no good mental healthcare that weren’t church leaders led to several self-deletion attempts until the state stepped in and forced some real mental healthcare.
That was around the time I went off to university. I hope the person was able to find some peace and get away from the frankly toxic environment like I was.
(I use they/them pronouns because at the time I last knew them, they were still undecided on a “permanent” gender and had asked to be referred to with neutral pronouns.)
There's nothing to be ashamed about and there's equally nothing to broadcast. Who gives a fuck?
I’m pretty sure I’m remembering the same documentary. I grew up Catholic & had to go to religious schools, but I def didn’t fit there. I must’ve been young when I watched it, but I was extremely upset they kept that type of info from the child & that maybe they should’ve waited until the child was old enough to decide for themselves.
Ik now that waiting on surgery & growing up intersex would prob be very difficult for the child, but it’s still a topic to be addressed.
At the time tho, I related it to growing up knowing you’re adopted (like I did) vs your family knowing but keeping it a secret from you (my cousin). I had trouble with some family treating me worse bc I was adopted, but my parents celebrated it & other family members would say things like, “Idk what we’ve done without you.”
So even as a little kid, I thought the mutilation was wrong. I just remember thinking that’s something I would want to know & how could they do that to their own child, yk?
(sorry for such a long rant)
i heard that the parents are not even told sometimes and the doctors just do the surgery anyway
I remember being 5 or 6 years old (so around 1989/1990) and watching a news program, probably 60 Minutes or something, with my grandmother (who would have been 63 of 64), about intersex people. They highlighted how medical policy at the time was - and had been for decades - to intervene with gender assignment surgery on INFANTS in the case of “ambiguous” genitalia. If the parents objected, doctors could and did report them for “neglect” and do it anyway. These surgeries, predictably, resulted in doctors/parents sometimes guessing incorrectly as to what gender the child was and that child going on to experience severe gender dysphoria, without of course knowing why because they hadn’t been TOLD about their “condition” at birth. I remember quite clearly my grandmother and I having the exact same reaction: “OMG why don’t they just wait until the child is old enough to decide for themselves whether or what surgery to have?!” For emphasis: this was 1989, the “B” and the “T” had not yet been included in “LGBT,”and a literal 5 year old child and a woman born in 1926 instinctively came to the conclusion that children should be allowed to determine their own gender identity. This shouldn’t be so difficult.
Experimenting on infants is wrong.
Better wait until they're 3 or 4, then you can claim they're trans.
I’m glad you mentioned this cuz a had a similar occurrence happen when I was a baby. I was struggling heavily during my teenage years with body dysmorphia & trying to understand what was happening with my body. My mum would just brush everything under the carpet like it doesn’t exist.
@@galexiakat "Brush everything under the carpet"? The usual idiomatic expression is: "sweep everything under the rug".
@@Steevee14So TF what? Shit changes. Living languages are ALIVE!!
@@Steevee14 English isn’t my first language either but funny that’s the only thing you cared enough to point out lol
I'm but a humble trans person, I'm not Intersex, but I still take time to inform others about Intersex people, the reason I do is because I genuinely in the intended goals of the LGBTQIA, we can't raise ourselves up if we don't help raise everyone else up too! 💜
Imagine if the whole of society ran on this concept?
We'd have far less misunderstandings on the whole
Looks like they added another initial to all of this
@@gregadams6055 from what I read the intersex don't really want to be part of the LGBT agenda.
@gregadams6055 - The I is often in the acronym and has been for a long time, we don't always include it, though, as about half of intersex people don't want to be included, which is of course their right. The other half, however, recognize that their struggle is part and parcel with the struggle of trans and queer people and until we get rid of this excessive bigotry towards a beleaguered group of minorities, none of us will have peace or justice.
@@ScottishVagabond if everyone were queer we will become extinct
My college teacher was intersex and she was the first intersex person I've ever met. She explained it very well since it was a new concept for most of us but everyone was very supportive and understanding. Life is complicated yet beautiful!
The issue though is that any other sex besides male or female, is what we call an anomaly or an aberration. These people shouldn't be ostracized, but we definitely shouldn't create entire new genders over genetic disorders. That would be like saying because some people are born with only one arm, we now have to create an entire new human species.
Well done to them, thats teaching better than any curriculum could
Intersex is not transgenderenter intersection is when you were born with both reproductive organs. And it's a natural freak of nature, meaning it's not normal. This man was born a man and still is a man. Who wears women's clothes.
@@Julie-wx2gf It was college for Chryseik, not elementary school; like seriously who cares when you're in college. Even if you don't accept it, you know that you're there to learn new shit.
@@Julie-wx2gf So weird when people like you just want folks to stay uneducated.
Im lucky as I got to be good friends with two guys who are intersex, they used to get bullied alot for being 'too feminine' I helped them out once when a gang of boys were bashing them, we became good friends, nobody picked on them after that.
They are the best two people ive ever met, big hearts lots of empathy just very good people. We now also run a charity together ❤️
Hmmm 2? I mean, not impossible I wanna say but with a 1.7 ish range per population that would be very rare! Glad you had that experience 😊
@@MsMtheorymy guess is they actively met or hung out because of the shared trait.
That's awesome! What's the charity?
Beautiful 🩵
Wonderful story!! Thank you for your continued good works and caring for others and working for justice.
My husband’s family had an intersexed friend. Renee passed away a number of years ago but she was one of the sweetest people you’d ever meet. She was born in the 1940’s so a time where it was an incredibly hard to be born different but she never let it get her down. We miss her like crazy!
Get a grouping can’t change biology
@@1963heavydbiology terms are words made up by humans, we have chosen to give certain things specific terms. Nature created some distinct features but other than it doesnt really matter.
Very sweet video. We did learn in school, but you do a better job of bringing the reality to home.
I think you are very beautiful, regardless!
@@rra7490all words are made up by humans
Every time I bring up intersex peoples existence during a discussion of gender, im always told “but those are incredibly rare cases” now I have an actual statistic to compare it to, thanks!
except intersex people are one sex biologically, doesn't matter what you look like. For example blume is a biological male but looks female. Still male biologically.
@@diathimiea male with a vagina? No, mate. Its not that cut and dried. And some have the full set of both bits. Biologically BOTH.
@@diathimie ok but what use is it in classifying her as male if she not only is female but has a uterus?
@@diathimieyou would never guess she is a "male" without genes tested which is something only possible in the last 50y or less...years ago she would be a normal woman sterile.
@@TashiAsh-z7qbecause she might have a prostate or male hormonal phenomena happening.
This needs to be common education.
It doesn't need to be. Just need bigots to recognise that the week of science classes in first year high school is the start of the field, not the totality. P.S. this is true of every single week in high school.
It was for me. 😂
it needs to be way more than 1.7% before it's a common issue
Hahahahahahahsh
It was, until recently Alberta Canada, and some USA states started removing and restricting the curriculum.
people who argue about this and say "it's basic biology!" know nothing about biology
People who use tgat figure if 1.7% quoted in the video also know nothing about biology
Argued in what way? That No ITS Not a thing, that Sex IS binary cause that what there where taught in elementary school, that ITS very valid and Sex IS a spectrum so why do WE expect gender to BE binary? Like all those Points are compleatly different ways to argued about IT and all Show a different awareness of "Basic biology"
Stop chatting garbage…. There are 2 widely recognised genders and a bunch of nonsense self refered genders for all the weird people who don’t fit in within society to feel normal for once….
They didn’t like you on the school yard and guess what…. They still don’t.
Biology identify a girl when they have V and a boy when they have P that’s it, it doesn’t matter if u r a mixed of both hormones! If u look like a girl then consider yourself as a girl. MY PERSONAL OPINION SO FONT GET OFFENDED 😁😁
These are biological abnormalities. Nothing wrong with it but they just are. People withou biological abnormalities do not have biological abnormalities so it is reasonable to say from basic biology wether they are a biological male or female. Whats hard
I used to know an intersex man. His parents chose to raise him as a girl but at some point he realized he identified more as a man. I often think about him when transphobes make stupid comments. Your video is such a great reminder that plenty of people don't fit neatly into one sex/ gender box.
Yeah.. It's been the norm for eternity to choose the gender that seems to be most correct and just raise the kid that way. I'm glad to see people like Blume putting themselves out there and educating people.
But he isn't trans he is intersex that's totally different
@@gemmaprince295 You understand that many 'trans' folks are intersex, and even if they're not, it's still the same concept. If you're not trans, good for you. You don't get to decide for other people, and honestly.. Misgendering people should be a legal excuse to punch someone in the mouth. Sadly, though, I'll just have to misgender those who misgender my friends.
@@gemmaprince295Well, while intersex and transgender identities are not the same, they are not entirely separate either. Intersex refers to a range of biological variations in sex characteristics, while transgender relates to gender identity. Both can involve biological and genetic components-intersex through visible sex characteristics and transgender through brain structure or hormonal variations that align more closely with their gender identity than their sex assigned at birth. The key point is that both intersex and transgender people defy traditional binary categories, and recognizing the complexity of sex and gender helps us understand and respect each person's individual journey.
@@Canthus13 but you just contridicted your self so should they be able to punch you ! I don't care how anyone identifies. i still don't really get how they are trans though. As intersex people are essentially both sexes
“Don't we have bigger problems?” is an often heard accusation against people raising awareness for inter and trans issues.
The question is not "aren't there bigger problems?" but rather:
Why should I have a problem with my neighbor's gender?
So far, no one has been able to give me a convincing answer to this, and therefore I don't see a problem with it.
We as humanity have big problems to solve. People who are inter or trans are NOT one of these problems nor is it their fight for equality, but rather the hatred that is spread against them. They don't want to MAKE the issue a problem, they HAVE problems because they face discrimination in multiple ways, including mutilation, simply because they are who they are.
Aren't the people who say "we have bigger problems" the ones that make gender a problem to begin with? With all their effort to spread their message: "there are only two genders" they don't improve anything, they don't solve any of the big problems of our time, but rather make life unnecessarily difficult for a part of humanity by desperately trying to make something as private and unproblematic as one's own gender a problem.
Hatred never solved any problems.
Everyone deserves love ❤️
if you're reading this and cannot find yourself able to love your inter or trans neighbor as yourself, you still can ask you if that means hate is the only option.
@@geigerzeichner2407 You're hated for a reason. You made it my problem when you decided "woman" had to include males.
@@blacktigerpaw1 And how, exactly, is that a problem, let alone YOUR problem? How is the person who made this video "your problem," for example? She isn't doing a damn thing to you.
@@bluesonicstreak7317 The person in this video has a DSD. They didn't choose their condition. However, plenty of people in this comment section are choosing to conflate the two issues, as well as insist (wrongly) that due to Blume's DSD that there are more than two sexes.
@@blacktigerpaw1 Nobody "chooses" to have gender dysphoria either. All the research into its etiology points at it being essentially a neurological intersex condition: it's associated with a number of variations in sex hormone metabolization and uptake. It's not always entirely appropriate to bring them up together - most trans people are unlikely to have had their genitals forcibly reassigned at birth, for instance - but there is a reason most people see them as related.
And many intersex people ALSO identify as transgender, because they are raised as a gender that differs from the one they end up considering themselves. Personally, every intersex person I've met fell into that bucket.
They are close issues. They are both medical conditions. Pretending they aren't, or that one condition is "chosen" whereas the other is a "poor you, you can't help it" situation is just a mask for bigotry.
That's what I'm saying all the time.
Like, the troubles that come with people changing their gender or being intersex are mostly just created by people who are against them for no discernable reason.
Sure, with being intersex, sometimes some medical treatments are needed to balance hormone or organ deviations. That can be inherent.
But for other people than the affected person, or society, it literally does not matter.
If we all just didn't give a fuck, nobody would have a problem.
So my collegue is trans. Ok, so? Aha. Cool. Is that supposed to shock me? Does it make a difference on earth? If we literally don't care, it also doesn't matter.
All the arguments why one should be against it fall flat, except maybe the religious ones where people say god wouldn't like that. Well, can't say it's wrong because we can't even prove god exists, let alone what they would think of being trans. So that's kinda an incurable mindset. But anything else people go on about can be simply disproven.
But people want it to be a problem so badly, we gotta fucking make studies and statistics just to prove them wrong, and then they'll still pull arguments outta their arse (until many eventually run out and probably choose religion again, as it can't be disproven).
All this effort to defend people's right to live in peace, because some people just can't chill.
THEY are the ones making us waste time and resources on arguing, wen everone could just be like "ok whatever" and the problem would INSTANTLY be gone...
Intersex rights are a huge issue and should be talked about more. So many babies are given surgery to “fix” something that isn’t even dangerous to them, just to make them fit in better with one of the sex categories. This is legal in almost all countries. Bodily autonomy for all, and end the stigma against intersex people. Thank you for talking about your experience in this short.
I seriously question the morality of all elective surgeries especially this kind of
What stigma? Most people do not even know about these people. And with regards to this person most would assume female based on appearance and behaviour.
@@zegrze Yes, lack of knowledge of the subject is part of the stigma. So much so that people feel the need to perform unnecessary surgery their infant’s genitals simply to make them seem more “normal.”
ı know a family friend who aborted their baby cause they would be born intersex, they decided that cause its so new and the kid would have problems fitting in or something…
Healthy babies are surgically mutilated to satisfy the parents desire. How is that giving the child a choice
I’m also intersex, I have two sets of DNA and was born with external male stuff and internal gal stuff. And it’s cause I have chimera from absorbing a twin.
So interesting, thank you for being so brave and sharing bc it actually does take lots of courage and so I applaud you👏🏻🧡ok&now the human being in me is going to be intrusive and ask,do u mind me asking if u identify as one or the other&may I also ask if u look outwardly one way or another..God Bless and please don't feel obligated to answer me🙏🏻
@@MimiNatt89 I identify as fem, I don’t like to be associated by my masculine traits, even if team Polypanbi says they give me an edge.
That makes sense! Hope you’re good my lovely x
@@tehRealPRM420 thank you so much for responding,you're so awesome, God Bless and have a wonderful day🙏🏻
You are a demigod in my culture
Possibly the most attractive human I’ve ever seen.
No literally, they’re perfection.
Really??
And it's fascinating. Because she is both genders.
@@MetalCrowd-je2bv yeah I know
HOW sad.@@MetalCrowd-je2bv
The fear of the discrimination itself is a reason to stand up. Babies shouldn't be destroyed at birth for being different 💛💜💛💜
I didn’t know intersex people were so common in the population. That’s really good to know! Thank you for explaining this
Next learn that intersex and binary are not the only two possibilities.
Hermaphrodites are .008% of Americans.
They aren't nearly so common as stated in the video. The 1.7% figure she quotes is from one paper in the year 2000 which had a very broad definition of what was meant by "intersex". The widely accepted figure is 0.018%
@@davegaskell7680 exactly. The actual number is.008 % of the population.
@davegaskell7680
Which really doesn't matter because it is not the only exception. Just one easy to demonstrate exists.
My first girlfriend almost 2 decades ago was intersex. Was a lot harder to find info on it back then, for either of us but I'm glad there are people sharing info now about the subject
Thats because the medical term is hermaphrodite.
This is something I studied in the early 2000's
There was information, but not as easy to find. There are actual studies on this subject and found it interesting as part of my gender studies degree.
So your homosexual
@tylersteward8917 nea, 2 kids and a wife. But sometimes I dream of an alternate reality where I have more free time without kids and just get hang with the homies.
@claudiagutierrez6336 being in 8th grade in the early 2000s I didn't even know what to look for.
Plus she dumped me after a few months cause dating a middle schooler was embarrassing for her. Did reconnect a little as adults, still super cool
Can I just say, as a Christian, I am so grateful I found your video because I had NO idea this was a real thing... It would be dishonest of me to say that I e probably made some very poor assumptions of people born intersex without even realizing it. I never hear that word until your video... And I'm 43 years old.
To clarify... I'm not a Christian who judges people. I'm a person who made assumptions about there only being 2 genders, and I happen to be a Christian. I treat everyone with respect and kindness.
Thank you for educating me 💜
Your comment make me happy☺️
Me too! 💜
Hope for humanity after all, love this
There's still only 2 genders the person in the video isn't some separate 3rd gender
I believe that people used to say h*rmaphrodite. You may have heard of that term.
OM-gawd! You are pure GORGEOUS! 💞
I wish we lived in a society that more accepted people as they are. I am glad that we seem to be heading in that direction. Thank you for being the person you are.
Yet you couldn't accept yourselves for who you were.
@@blacktigerpaw1What are you TALKING about
@@nyxie2877 You tell me, Enby Of Colour.
@@blacktigerpaw1 I’m not the one who said it
@@nyxie2877 You need surgeries and hormones to achieve this nebulous "gender identity" based on sex stereotypes all so you can pretend you're not the person you were born.
I was introduced to intersex from a Japanese TV drama in the early 2010s called IS: Otoko demo onna demo nai sei, which discussed struggles of intersex teens. As I watched people in the show struggled psychologically, socially and physically, I wondered why no one talks about it in rl. Thank you for sharing and educating more people on intersex and what it is like in rl.
Omg same!
Same here too!!
Janky mental translation suggests that as "a boy, but a girl, but neither really" or something like that?
YES ME TOO!!
Thanks for the title of the movie I will watch that. There are also news in the Philippines like this, I remember one of my neighbors before has this kind of case she became my friend but as what was the rumors says she’s born with 2 kinds of sexuality which is male and female but if you saw her you could definitely see that she’s a girl she haven’t open up with me regarding it but the rumors spread like a wildfire. I was afraid to ask her about it cause I might go beyond her boundaries which will cause a fight between us (but then I forgot if I was able to ask her about it cause it’s been a decade since the last time I saw her) The rumors were spread exaggeratedly and me having this memory that she said that it is true and me be like okay 👍🏼 her actions are kinda manly manners to be honest 😅
Just love how she started the video😂 ‘I’m a male, but I don’t have a penis” Getting straight to the point
Completely missed the point.
And people here are still arguing that sexes other than male and female are a thing based on this video. He even admits he is male but didn't develop correctly. He is male with a medical condition that caused him to present as female.
A penis is not the only thing that defines what is a male. That is the point.
No penis and no womb?
Man, woman, Trans. That’s it, let’s stop confusing people. It’s fine to be trans (or a man stuck in a woman’s body or vice versa), but we really needed to control the 100 genders you’re implementing in your youth
I feel like if this was more out in the open all the other grey areas in life would be easier for people to accept. It's a beautiful thing
I was vaguely aware of intersex, but it was never properly explained to me. Thanks for explaining
Agreed 👍
I always thought intersex is the type of people that have both male& female sex organs at the same time according to myths 😮
Want to know something super cool! There are XY women who were born with uteruses who were able to give birth! I thought that was really interesting… :3
@@ChaoticAngelKittennow that actually is .. thanks
@@ChaoticAngelKitten It most defintely means they did not develop any male reproductive organs and if they did it didn't hinder their ability to give birth. So yes very interesting indeed.
I can't believe how people are saying "there's only two sexes but obviously there's exceptions"
If there's exceptions then there aren't two sexes, some are just less common.
And they're more common than you think, because people pretend they don't exist, by saying "there are only two sexes."
Even we say we need people like Blume, we mean we value her asserting and giving examples of more than two sexes.
"But it's a mutation!" Or "but they look normal" every trait is considered a mutation, and it IS normal, that's the POINT.
This is important for discussions of GENDER because for every red haired child there's a person whose body isn't strictly male or female, whise gender you CAN'T determine based on their sex. It is NORMAL to not be able to determine someone's gender based on their sex.
I'd say there's 5, maybe 6 if you include the neo genital some surgeons offer. M, F, I, MTF, FTM
Even if it’s a mix of both, it’s not normal. Because yes they are human beings and deserve to be loved like anyone else. But the fact that this people mostly can’t even have kids is showing that it’s not wanted by nature. In nature we have normally only two sexes. There are people who are born in one body having to share it for the rest of their life. But is this normal?
If everybody would have 300 different sexes and would be genderfluid and so on (which has nothing more to do with a gen mutation at that point) the human race would just die.
@@marinaserba7032the ability of humans being able to talk is also not natural, it’s a mutation that no one can explain. If you considered talking normal, then this is normal too.
Being interesex is natural and about as common as red hair. Saying intersex people are people and are doing no harm doesn't require the endorsement of nature. Plus evolution often selects for aging and death of the individual, it cares about populations only. Having a portion of the population that cannot reproduce could have evolutionary and societal benefits as that leaves more people to adopt children, take care of elderly, or reduce resource competition. But it doesn't matter, intersex people exist and have always existed and shouldn't be made to feel a freakshow @@marinaserba7032
@@marinaserba7032 You talk about gender nonconforming people with such trembling fear. Why is that?
You are LITERALLY intersexphobic.
"What's your sex"
"Default"
wouldnt default be female then? bc before the penis starts growing, its a vagina. BUT if you wanna go even further, our defaults are assholes 😂😂😂 we start as assholes 😂😂😂
your making me think 😂😂😂
😂😂😂
Why not PREFER NOT SAY
Undefined, because medicine can not define it. It biological dude. No relation with sexuality.
I was heavily confused when our teacher told us about "intersex". Now i understood! Bless your soul, you are very cool!
Why nobody talks about intersex people at school? They dont mention them in school books, but if you open any anatomy textbook for college (e.g. netter) you will find them. Intersex knowlege should NOT be university knowledge, it should be common knowledge.
because a lot of people perform surgery on intersex babies, and it'd cause a lot of people to realise theyve been mutilated without consent
Because conservatives dont want anything related to lgbtq people to be discussed
@@jamie9063that's horrible.
@@jamie9063 it's ironic that most supporters of banning gender affirming care for transgender people, will likely also support the practice of forced surgery on intersex babies.
It's about conforming to the norm for them, not a concern for damage surgery may cause.
@@humanbean7884 exactly this!!!
(EDIT: if you have something to say, don't bother saying it in a reply to me. y'all are annoying as hell and i'm tired of these notifications)
comparing the statistics to red hair is so helpful. it helps a lot of people visualize just how common something is, even if the percentage seems small! i use that comparison when discussing dissociative disorders (there's more than just DID) because the statistic is similar!
Comparing the statistics falsely is not helpful, does not outline reality and simply makes you look foolish or unable to research
The actual statistic for intersexuallity is far, far lower, between 0.017 and 0.038% on average
DID is extremely rare, and doesn't need to be lied about to make it seem more normal. Imagine saying "this mental illness that is strictly born from extreme sexual and physical abuse as a young child is pretty common!" Like Jesus. I'd rather it be fucking rare. Same with intersex. They have so many issues and can typically never reproduce.
@@Lobotobilbo The stats are lower when a more exclusive definition of intersex is used. When those definitions most commonly used are the people that have either both internal/ external organs or ambiguous internal/external organs are accounted for. When using a definition that includes more variation of intersex then the stats increase. Imagine telling someone how stupid they look for their lack of research while you don’t even know how the stats vary from 0.017- 0.037 to around 2%.
But it’s wrong. DSDs occur in 0,018% of population.
@@insidiousmischka that's the diagnosed statistic. undiagnosed dissociative disorders are still dissociative disorders
Im intersex too! I have the same condition as you! I love seeing awareness being spread online, trying to explain all the time can become really exhausting. Keep up the good work, queen :)
Intersex ppl can have children?or not?
@@MrMultiHerbatnik for my condition? no. not biological at least. i do plan on having children when i’m older, so i’ll have to use alternative methods like surrogacy or adoption
@@jessisironicallysad5533 thanks for answer.greetings
Fair dues girl ( or the best looking boy ever) 😉👏
@@jessisironicallysad5533 You don't have any eggs to provide. CAIS individuals are completely sterile.
The 1.7% estimate is a rather generous one from what I've read, but even a real small percentage of over 8 billion people is a lot! Also, many people don't find out they're intersex for a long time -- if they do at all.
Thank you for speaking up. I wrote a paper about intersex for my a levels in gemang and I was shocked that so many people (including most of my biology teachers) didn’t know about it. They thought I mean trans people. I think it’s so important to understand that gender/ sex (don’t know which one is the right term in English) is a spectrum.
Edit: pls be polite and show some manners. It’s not that hard! We can discuss this topic respectfully.
It's not a spectrum. Male and Female and the intersex people who are still biologically one or the other
@@julieme7927 How does fitting some parts of both physical criteria make you just one? Make it make sense.
In English, queer and gender theorists generally accept
Sex: horomones/ genitalia
Gender: where someone falls socially, emotionally, and phsycologicly
Sorry for any spelling mistakes
@@internetstranger5112”gender theorists” is perhaps the most useless crap i have ever heard💀💀
it’s not a spectrum. intersex doesn’t substantiate that at all… it’s literally having parts of BOTH genders or sexes. but there is still either male or female. i’d be very worried that you wrote a paper on that. do u understand how dna works…?
As a genetics major i can back this up with science and well, precisely, genetics.
There are three genetic conditions that can lead to intersex individuals.
1. Turner's Syndrome, 45 X, where the child is a female but lacks another X chromosome. Turner females do not ovulate, and are hence infertile. They also do not have fully develop primary sexual organs like ovary as well as secondary sexual characters like breast. External genetilia resembles a vagina.
2. Klinefelter's Syndrome, 47 XXY, here the child is supposedly a male but has an extra X chromosome which results in the development of both ovaries and testes, might also result in the development of breast. External genetilia may resemble a vagine with a protruding and enlarged clitoris that resembles a penis.
3. Swyer Syndrome, 46XY, here there is no extra or less chromosome, but the Y chromosome, responsible for male attributes might be incomplete or recessive, meaning the X chromosome in these males is in control, therefore they have inactive testes, or in some cases they might not be fully developed. External genetilia resembles a penis but there is no growth. This condition also affetcs the SRY gene which is again responsible for providing male attributes.
In all these 3 conditions, there's also sexual hormonal imbalance as the gonads (ovary and testes) are getting affected which are responsible for producing these sexual hormones like oestrogen and testosterone.
Hope that helped. :)
Good start. Jacobs Syndrome (47 XYY) is another.
There are way more than just 3.
XXX is another, androgen insensitivity (like in the video), and others.
or PMDS
@@ndawn90 And none of them are separate sexes, fivehead.
Klinefelter Syndrome does not lead to development of a vagina. They still develop male genitalia.
Swyer Syndrome individuals don't have testicles, either. You're confusing them with streak gonads.
Go back to your advanced biology textbooks.
From Medline Plus:
"Individuals with Klinefelter syndrome typically have small testes that produce a reduced amount of testosterone (primary testicular insufficiency). Testosterone is the hormone that directs male sexual development before birth and during puberty. A small percentage of affected individuals are born with undescended testes (cryptorchidism). Without treatment, the shortage of testosterone can lead to delayed or incomplete puberty, breast enlargement (gynecomastia), decreased muscle mass, decreased bone density, a reduced amount of facial and body hair, and fatigue. Klinefelter syndrome can make it difficult for people with this condition to have biological children (a condition called infertility), but up to half of people with Klinefelter syndrome may be able to have children using assisted reproductive technologies..
The other physical changes associated with Klinefelter syndrome are usually subtle. Most commonly, affected individuals are taller than average and 2 to 3 inches taller than would be expected for their family. Other features can include curved pinky fingers (fifth finger clinodactyly), flat feet (pes planus), and, less commonly, abnormal fusion of certain bones in the forearm (radioulnar synostosis).
Children with Klinefelter syndrome may have low muscle tone (hypotonia), difficulty coordinating movements, and mild delays of certain developmental skills, such as rolling over or walking. Affected children have an increased risk of mild delays in speech and language development. People with Klinefelter syndrome tend to have better receptive language skills (the ability to understand speech) than expressive language skills (vocabulary and the production of speech) and may have difficulty communicating and expressing themselves. Affected individuals have an increased risk for learning disabilities, most commonly problems with reading (dyslexia) and written expression. People with Klinefelter syndrome very rarely have intellectual disabilities."
Note: no vaginal development.
One of my aunts is intersex. She didn't understand that she was "different" re: society until she went to nursing school. She was raised as a female; nobody explained things to her. (They were raised in a very religious household, so...). Thank you for making this video! So many people stand to be educated by this one video! ❤️💖❤️
Oh that cool
That is rough to find out. I hope she didn't feel betrayed and lied to her whole life.
@glenncordova4027 She's never admitted that to me, but her face says so, in my opinion. I know I would've felt betrayed. I try not to talk to her about it because she doesn't like to discuss it further than what I've already mentioned. My heart breaks for her & others who are in similar situations. I've always believed that people fear what they don't understand (for the most part). This channel is sure to bring that much needed education/exposure re: intersex.
Religious upbringings are the cause of so many blighted lives. The ignorance of the religious comes with the territory. Only the ignorant can believe in gods, which is why all those who come to realise that they were brought up in ignorance but are too intelligent to remain there have to leave. The Abrahamic religions are truly a pox on humanity.
I’m a biological male with mostly male physical attributes, yet people think I’m ftm trans. I’m concerned I might be intersex to some degree.
Maybe you have testosterone deficiency?
U may be just a twink
There is marvelous variation in Humanity. . No harm in getting checked out, though. But not all males are big boofy bears, thank God, and not all women look like barbie... Also thank God! Much as i may love Margot Robbie!
Stereotypes are just that. Reality comes in glorious variety!
@@Plethorality that’s true
Possibly it's how you present yourself?
People saying "its a mutation"
Red hair is a mutation... Heterochromia is a mutation...
That "argument" doesnt make sense
Edit: y'all still missing the point 😑
Seems from what he said in a different video that his male parts failed to drop in the womb, so would the term "not fully develop" be a more accurate term?
@@yumchain6957 The important part to remember here is that Blu has both partially formed male AND female genitalia.
@@yumchain6957 ...No
White skin is a mutations, blue eyes are mutation...I can go on
It's a biological condition google it there are variations they can have ambitious genitalia or a fusion of both they are unable to have children due to this incomplete sexual systems of either male or female or a bit of both
In my country, there were a case of 2 brothers who were assigned female at birth because they were intersex (they had this specific condition I forgot the name of where they were actually male, but their genitals weren't properly developed or sth, so the nurse thought they were girls), they lived 27 and 30 years as girls, but they never developed breast, their voice got deeper, they feel so uncomfortable, the younger brother was in military and he's very uncomfortable living in the women's barrack, wearing the mandatory skirt uniform, etc, that he asked to leave the military. When his commander (or general? I don't remember his title) heard, he asked what's wrong, so he explained how he felt uncomfortable with, essentially, being a woman. The commander then told him to go to a doctor, that is when he finally found out he's actually a guy! He got gender afirming surgery and "came out" as a guy, few weeks later his older brother followed. All this, because 30 years ago people didn't know intersex people existed (esp bc they were born in a smaller town where higher education is hard to obtain)
That was common back in the day, the parents and Dr chose the sex. I've read that in followup studies, about 60% of the time they chose wrong. That is tragic.
I look forward to the day when no one feels pressured to live as the gender that someone else assigned to them. Intersex people go through this a lot. It's fairly common that someone will just decide what gender they want their intersex child to be, and then later that child realises that their parent or doctor decided wrong. Obviously this usually the case with trans people as well. No one should have to go through this. We should all have the right to live in the way that feels right to us without fear of rejection and discrimination.
@stormyweather2807 I would imagine so! It's really sad, especially thinking about how these people might live their whole life feeling like they're weird or an outcast bc of this. The sibling in my story only got the chance for gender affirming surgery bc the younger brother is in military, I imagine if he wasn't then they'll just continue on living as girls but miserable
@emberd-l795 totally! I really hope we'll get to that point one day, but if we want to look at the bright side, we're already doing a lot better than like, 30 years ago, obviously we still have a long way to go, but this is hopefully a step in the right direction
I've been on a mission to educate that 2% of the US are hermaphrodite/intersex
Every single intersex person I’ve ever come across is absolutely beautiful. They have beautiful features, beautiful voices, incredible depth of character and the most vibrant personalities. I think this is due, in part, to their struggle - they’ve been through a lot - and they’ve got grit. But there’s also something really beautiful about intersex people - it’s like nature selected the best attributes of each gender and combined them. Nature is amazing. And YOU are beautiful!! 💕
I’m always so shocked when people forget/don’t know that intersex people exist, ty for spreading awareness!!
I thought everyone knew. I've known about it since I was a young teenager. It's no choice. They are born naturally this way.
I’m shocked when this rare condition is seized upon by activists as a bizarre rationale to validate their lifestyle choices
Same here and I learnt about it like 15 years ago already, and we study it in biology it’s everywhere in nature !
@@MrJeffcoley1being trans is not a “lifestyle” choice. It’s not a choice at all. We are all born knowing our own gender identity. Just like she has always presented as female - not androgynous , not male, despite the fact she has male chromosomes and genitals. Because gender is personal and not about sex organs
Some do not forgot, they just seem them as "exception" or "anomaly", and just invalid them
I’m 14 and have heard of this but nobody has every explained it to me… keep doing what you doing! We need this normalized!
Here's what's going on biologically. Basically a small percentage of the male population has a body which simply doesn't respond to testosterone at all. This is why they never develop male genitalia and end up looking even more feminine than most women. The "vagina" they develop isn't really functional either. I hope that helps 😊
yeah, some idiots don't explain a whole lot of things to kids these days... shows how dumb the idiots are, not the kids.
Don’t forget that Google can answer a lot, if not all, of your questions.
It isn't normal. We knew about this before the internet!😂 (We watched the movie "Sleep Away Camp!") Something that happened abnormally before her birth isn't the natural order of things. BUT she should be treated with the same respect as anyone else. She must understand that the only reason that attention is drawn to her is because she is stating she is a male. And that is one of the reasons she is confusing people. Usually an intersexual make a decision on a specific sex based on the dominant presence of one of the two characteristics. It's not the same as a gay or lesbian who says they are trapped in the wrong body. The intersex person already expresses their desire to be one sex or another. Medically, if her body produces eggs she is a female regardless of the outward appearance. They're not going to produce eggs and sperm cells. I think that would be deadly. 😒
Who is we,Don't you mean you need it normalised?
In my place people used to call intersex people as transgender, then i realised transgender is not the same as intersex
Transgender has always meant changing from one gender to another
People just confuse terms that they don't fully understand sometimes, even if it's not out of malice. But it's useful to learn the correct terms because it makes describing different experiences easier!
@@e.9874 I think they were referencing that some languages don't have separate words for intersex and transgender. Leads to a lot of confusion and stigma
@@W-I463 oh yeah I can totally see it being a language thing, a lot of specifications don't get clarified. In my language we didn't have a casual non-offensive term for gay men until we started loaning the word "gay" from English.
we also don't have word for gay so we literally say the term we use for intersex people. The transition gay thing is very new and the trans words was used to internex people only in my country and now after this gender identify pop out. This identify things are going crazy as now the trans means the gender identify one@@e.9874
As soon as I heard about this mess at the Olympics i immediately felt for you Hun. You had just put out that short about educating Drs lol. I'm so far out the loop Idk if that was before or after the Olympics debacle. Sending love. So glad you're handling everything with so much grace.
I have nothing but love and respect for you making this video in order to educate people who otherwise should have been educated by either their parents or their schools. My great aunt was born an Hermaphrodite (intersex) in 1896, yes 1896. So I personally knew about intersex people from a young age. They decided to raise my auntie as a girl, even though she did have a very small, but fully functioning penis, she also had a vagina as well, but no testicles. If born twenty years ago I have absolutely no doubt she would have chosen to be male in adulthood. She had a man’s broad shoulders, facial hair, a low male voice and very large feet. She lived well into her 90’s. She was one of three sisters, my Grandma was one of them, born in 1898!! Ignorance breeds intolerance and hate, knowing about a subject can give people a new perspective and also some love and empathy 👍🇬🇧🌈♥️♥️
One of my teachers was intersex. She was born in rural Australia to a very Christian family and because she had penis (that ended up being non-functioning) they had her vulva sewn up as a baby and made her take male hormones so they could raise her as a boy. She knew she felt more female from a very young age and once she turned 18 began living as one, but because she’d been sewn up she had all kinds of medical issues. She started menstruating shortly after stopping the hormones and the doctors had to open up a vein in her leg for the blood to come out of because it couldn’t come out naturally, though I think that was eventually rectified with surgery. She was an incredible woman and lived an incredible life.
Nothing but respect for your great aunt and her choices, and you might be right about 20 years ago. But I would hope that people born that way today could also choose to ditch the whole binary gender thing, which, after all, is just a choice about how to be discriminated against by narrow-minded people. I have a tonne of admiration for my friend's parents, who, even over 40 years ago, let their intersex child decide for themself what gender to identify with. My friend's identity has changed in the time I've known them, and while I stuff up and use the wrong pronoun sometimes (as I do for other people, and also with most people's names), that's just fine.
You’re also biologically beautiful.
Biology rizz
I think I'll agree with that. She looks very nicely made.
Also has a vagina, looks and presents as female. She is intersex, not a biological male
Rips apart both “but your chromosomes are… so you’re…” and “if you were born with… then you’re…”
His chromosomes are of a man , he is a man , if you dont manifest all characteristics but have the genetics you just have a anomaly , if humans have 2 legs and im born with 1 im still a human not one news species, i have a genetic anomally , still human just with 1 legless , now i will force everyone to call me leg-o-less , not a human or you go to jail for hate speech, bigot
@@MrRafagigapr and what about people born with 3 sex chromosomes? Is someone with both functional sexx parts just a man or just a woman? Sexx is not black and white as you so wrongly try to assert.
@@kenny995 you wrongly comprehend fenotipocal consequences of the genetic makeup of a individual , despite having more than 2 chromossomes , you are still a male or female , the rule is having only x chromossomes is female and having at least one y is male , for example you can be a intersex , XY , male / intersex , XXX , female / intersex XXXY male , /most intersex people have between 2 to 4 chromossomes , its the rules for naming intersex babies , because they are the most accurate predictors of physical likeness , sadly phenotypes are very diverse in these cases , but the nomenclature helps im most casr , and sorry English isn't my first language. And people with both working sexual organs don't exist , they only work as excretory organs , the common occurrence is female genitals where the clitóris becomes a micropenis , it is impossible to have both sexual organs working and healthy , just watch a UA-cam video on how genitals form in the womb , the same organ becomes the penis or clitóris/vulva so it can't form both , and there is no registered account of a person with both organ working as sexual organs ,just as excretory organs , since a micropenis that cannot perform a penetration it is not a functional sexual organ despite being a functional excretory organ .
@@kenny995that’s a karyotupe, not a sex
If you’re trying to imply all intersex people aren’t either male or female you’d be wrong
Your a human and a very good looking one that’s all that matters and yes I have known about intersex people for many years live your best life
I've known about intersex people for a while, a famous runner from my country was disqualified from competing because she is intersex. I think it's genuinely really interesting, how it can present differently in different people and how it really changes your understanding of sex as soon as you learn about it. We know gender is a spectrum, so is it all that surprising that sex is too?
Is it Castor Semenya?
@@masegosheilabojosi6993 yeah
@AmeliaMastervally that's because Castor's a man
@@Nattile2019do you not realize that the original commenter said intersex? The runner was neither male nor female, but somewhere in between BIOLOGICALLY. That’s what this video is about too. This runner was literally born intersex, but was disqualified anyway for something they couldn’t control.
@@hyperhannah5741 The condition Castor had only affected biological males. Not females.
62 years old... I'm still learning new things. Thanks Bloom, all the best.
How when one gets old? Do you grow a beard, and lose the skirt? The mind a hard drive,!the body, it can all be reprogrammed.
@@thomascrowe3407 er.... too deep for me.
Aww she got you lol
@@eaglesmann024 hi cryptic man.... what you on about?
people like you make me feel a lot safer as a trans person. i wish more people were willing to educate themselves as you are
Now I understand the he/she pronoun problem.🤔 As an English teacher its frustrating trying to teach verbs without using pronouns to show English structure. But living in Malaysia, I love the Malay language because it only uses "dia" which can be he or she. So maybe I can use Dia to talk about you? Dia is very beautiful for sharing dia's story.❤
That's not how intersex works. Even if someone is born with that condition they still have characteristics of either male or female gender, not both at the same time. For example, the guy from the video was born as a man and he probably would've looked like one if it wasn't for all the surgeries he did to feminize his face and body cause it's clear he's trans 🤷🏻♀️
In my native language it's even worse because it's not just he/she/them. It's also in the verbs! We have different form of every verb depending on if we talk about him, her or in plural. It's a pain, really.
I like your idea tho. 👍
We definitely need gender-neutral pronouns in English - not the neuter "it" but indicating a person without regard to he or she
@alanmckinnon6791 we use "they" for people who are non-binary. Or if we don't know someone's gender and are trying to be respectful.
@@TheBlueClover2012 No not that, I'm not talking about repurposing a plural pronoun (they) that sometimes has a singular usage if you squint real hard but is still grammatically clunky. For the longest time I have wished there was a truly neutral pronoun in our grammar for the ever-increasing number of cases where it refers to a person or where a person should be without regard to their gender. Like the OP's "dia", and "they" does not cut it, that is retrofitting something else into the language (for lack of a better solution perhaps)
I'm so proud of you for making yourself and the topic of intersex more public!! More people need to understand that this is natural! ❤❤❤
For those who are saying that’s so rare it is but there’s one percent of the population is intersex which equals out to 80 million people who are intersex on this planet
There's as much gingers than intersex and yet you don't see people denying the existence of gingers
@@truth5371who denies the existence of intersex people?
Actually that’s not true. If the term intersex is to retain any meaning, the term should be restricted to those conditions in which chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex, or in which the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female. Applying this more precise definition, the true prevalence of intersex is seen to be about 0.018%, almost 100 times lower than Fausto-Sterling s estimate of 1.7%.
Crazy how people believe anything without doing some research
@@Stacibytheriver intersex includes malformation of the genitalias so her percentage is quite correct yes if we only refer to chromosomes the percentage is lower but the person clearly talks about intersex of the common definition
...There are people who don't know about Intersex?... How?
Church
@@tanyakilbane7636 ...ah, right
They learn about biology from people like Matt Walsh or Ben Shapiro.
There's a lot of situations where intersex babies go throught surgery to make their genitalia more """normal""" or """acepting"""" looking and end up never finding out until they have some hormonal issue or take a cariotype test etc. If you look up intersex adults that had invasive sugeries as infants you'll find a lot of stories of this kind (I think they made some pannel on an intersex international visibility day about this).
@@jacig720Don't know how it is were you live, but for a few years now we have a law that forbids Operations on intersex Babys.
I wish this law was put in place sooner.
I learned about this in biology before. Can’t believe peoples schools didn’t educate them on this
I wish schools in my country would teach us these things 😥
@@aaa.............. The good thing is it’s never too late to learn.
@@MelodyHayes true, I'm eager to learn stuff my school failed to, though most of the people don't feel the need to and usually end up discriminating others out of their ignorance
@@aaa.............. I’m the same way! I’m really dyslexic and before I was taught how to over come it I was constantly taken out of classes and because of that I never got to learn some stuff. Now I love to learn new things but get made fun of for the stuff I missed out on.
@@MelodyHayes DSDs aren't separate sexes.
I heard “I’m into sex”
I was very confused for that second
I did too. I thought it was an ad for a sec.
😆
Say it with me: INTERSEX PEOPLE ARE REAL AND VALID
….yeah just that the figure of 1.7% is highly disingenuous and is way less than that in reality
And rare!
Intersex people are real and valid.
@@cspace1234nz 136,000,000 people that would be...
Also if a school has 300 students then 5 should be intersex.???
i went to a school with nearly 1000 pupils, thats 17 students who should be intersex. It was defo 0.
@@armondtanzhow would you even know it was zero? Are you running around testing students chromosomes?
I think people need to remember that groups such as intersex people are both a small percentage of the population, but also that that still means that there are MILLIONS of them! And they shouldnt be discarded as a percentage to not be cared about. Same with transgender people who make up a very small portion of the population yet still make up millions in this world, and they should still have their needs met, and to not be excluded from our world.
Also this is just anecdotal for sure, but I know two people who are intersex and trans! It's pretty cool how these things can also coincide.
And you need to remember it's an estimate of 1% of the population. Next, most of the world's population is not in the US but China and India. Also, this isn't trans crap people are pushing. This is something all informed people know of. I think it's great she's out trying to educate others who may not. But for women with penises to hide behind, this is a joke. Also, people are born without limbs, extra fingers, a tail, etc. We still go with the normal 10 fingers and 10 toes.
@@nyla2408 The 1.7% figure is based on 40 years of medical records.
As a nurse, I'm glad you made this video. Awareness is a good thing. If you experience prejudice coming from anyone in the medical field, please tell them a nurse on UA-cam said F off. 😊 You be you, and if that's who or how you were born, physically, embrace that. If you were born one gender and feel another, or nonbinary, embrace that. Your soul is who you are. Not your body parts. Gay lesbian, queer, hetero, cis, whatever. Be your true self. Life is too short and precious and fragile to have others dictate it for you. ❤
You're a nurse and you don't know how human development works? Someone was asleep in class.
DSDs relate to sex, not gender. Karyotype variations are not variations of sex.
"Your body parts don't define you" - tell that to the transman who died on the operating room table because she was treated like a male.
informational in good way done in an intelligent way with out theatrics
@blacktigerpaw1 kinda out of left fild there aren't we. I don't think what your saying is relevant to the nice voice of affirmation and kind support for the LGBTQIA+ community that this nurse was expressing. And you opened up with a Karren attack out of left ballpark. Nice going there.
@n8ram413 Go away christofascist ! There are more than just your christofascist definition of a soul. And apparently you missed the part of your fairy tale book about casting the first stone. How about you just accepting that others have their own truth and you MYOB !
I love you for your comment!!❤ thanks!! The world needs nore open minded people like you😘😘
In Brazil there was a very famous csse of a male model that had natural feminine hormones and male genitals. That was in the 80s and 90s. She was considered the most beautiful woman of Brazil at that time. Probably the most famous intersex person yet.
You’re biologically BEAUTIFUL ❤
Totally agree
okay but like I CAN'T STOP LOOKING AT HER EYES THEY'RE SO BEAUTIFUL!!
Are you a man
You mean his eyes don’t you 🤣
@@jadedavis822 I'm guessing you have no ability to understand what it's like to be one of the 1.7% of HUMANS born intersexed. But no, judge strangers. What bugs you is she's a hotter woman than you ever will be.
They look like contacts 🤔🤔
You're seeing the reflection of a ring light.
This person seems like a lovely individual, and pretty too.
Clearly doesn't understand the science of chromosomes though.. "Be who you want to be, but accept who you are first"
@@Sir__Gambit Gender isn't determined by sex organs or sex chromosomes, as proven by intersex people, and as the multiple studies confirm, including the MRIs that show as much, GENDER is entirely determined by the brain.
Go for it. 😂🎉
@@Sir__Gambitat no point did they say be “who you want to be”
They are technically male, but has ostrogen and no testosterone so they act and feel more like a she, even though “she” also has balls and a vagina
It’s weird but it’s real. This stuff is good to know because if im dating different people, im attracted to a female, not intersex, no offense.
@@dr.chalmers7923why do you have to put “she” in inverted comments?
Pretty much everyone who took a biology class in the 50’s-90’s was taught this is hermaphroditism. Nothing new except for a new word for it. Pretty amazing thing biologically speaking.
Except hermaphrodite would be an incorrect term, as most intersex people do not have both ovaries and testes. That is why the word is no longer used.
@@Tomb-Wraithit was a term used for centuries. No longer used, because we know more about it. But you cant blame the past for using a word you might not like anymore. It was the best we had.
This will sound very odd but it’s an interesting story. I worked in a museum in like 2019 making animals into skeletons. I had to record their measurements, sex, etc. This is usually very straightforward but can definitely be tricky in animals with unusual reproductive tracts. I had been doing this for several years when one day I found a muskrat with what was clearly a full “female” reproductive system including a uterus & ovaries AND testicles with a full “male” reproductive tract including a penis bone.
The first time it happened I said “that’s strange, I’ll make a note” recorded it and moved on. Then it happened AGAIN and AGAIN. One was even pregnant with a few little muskrat babies. I probably prepared about 20 muskrats in total during my time there so I saw lots of “normal” “females” and “males” as well.
When it was clear that this was a pattern, I told my boss thinking we should record this and do some more research and I’ll never forget her response was, “Does it have a penis bone?”
I said “yes, but it also has a uterus”
She said, “If it has a penis bone it’s a male. Mark it as male and move on”.
I did decide to move on but I made sure to note the observation, flexed my skill in dissection and saved the reproductive organs in alcohol. It just haunts me that there are probably plenty of intersex animals as well that have never been recorded or acknowledged in these institutions.
"Wow, I recorded this weird thing among muskrats. Therefore, human sex isn't binary!"
If the individual was capable of gestating, it means it was capable of producing eggs. Therefore it is female. If it produces sperm, it is male. That is what we base sex on, bud.
@@blacktigerpaw1can you please quote what the original poster of this comment said that indicated they were talking about the human sex binary? no please, enlighten me, as I am Clearly unable to read what you’re seeing :)
@@teggyber He's talking about intersex muskrats, not knowing all DSDs apply to one sex or the other. They are not a separate sex. If the muskrat was capable of producing eggs and gestating, it's female. Muskrats give birth to live young, so a muskrat having full female reproductive organs and male organs is either a full environmental defect or likely doesn't exist.
@@teggyber He's talking about intersex muskrats and how he found one with wholly intact male and female reproductive parts, which is next to impossible in placental mammals.
Omg the institutional unscientificness of that!!! 🤯🤯 thanks for sharing!
1.7% is a LOT of people when you put it into numbers
and probably wrong
@@nomadikmind3979it’s not plus quite a few people live their lives jut knowing they’re intersex
You are doing such a wonderful thing by creating awareness about this. And you explain a rather complex situation in a very sensible, concise way that anyone can understand. You should be very proud of yourself. ❤❤❤
Yes
That's not how intersex works. Even if someone is born with that condition they still have characteristics of either male or female gender, not both at the same time. For example, the guy from the video was born as a man and he probably would've looked like one if it wasn't for all the surgeries he did to feminize his face and body cause it's clear he's trans 🤷🏻♀️
I find this video very educational. Thank you for sharing ❤
Speaking from my experience, I don't understand how one's sexual identity can affect a perfect stranger to a point of voting against the right to personal freedom? In my 75 years, I've never been approached or been accosted or in any way be made to feel uncomfortable by a LGBTQ person. That's how I judge others - by what they do!
Nobody's voting on gender. The issues are inflation, healthcare, spending, open borders, crime and taxes.
Nobody cares what's in your pants buddy.
Okay, Boomer. How do you feel about males in women's prisons?
This is a way different person than any of the LGBTQ person😑
That's cool but unrelated
Me too, I've always been really laid back about sexual orientation as long as it doesnt harm or impact on other people or creatures. I wish everyone would just do what makes them happy instead of trying to force people to validate them. This young person is totally comfortable in her/his body so doesnt ask for grammatical gymnastics or anything, other than to make us understand the condition.
I studied bio chemistry in college and I learned about all the different things that can affect a fetus during development. There are tons of factors like genetics, hormones, and more that can affect the genitalia and the brain while they are developing! It's really ignorance that causes people to be judgemental. I'm so sad that they don't just teach this stuff in middle and high school. Unfortunately, things like religion and traditions will always strongly affect people's views on these matters but talking about things like intersex will help! I love watching the look on people's faces when I say, "explain THAT with religion!". Lol. I stick up for EVERYONE because I know the TRUTH! I'm so glad to see you speaking out and helping to educate others! That's the most important thing you could do!! People just need to be educated! That's it plain and simple!
I'm very much still Conservative and Christian, but even I am confused by the hoops people go through. So they hate the media but eat up the media's campaign against Trans people, believe people have a soul and body but somehow the body can be flawed with everything except for gender... Some seemly have no issues with Autism, a neurological variation, but having a different neurological sex from your body is somehow too absurd?
Yes ---- we need more education however the person in the street will never be educsted enough will they?
I wish that this person here would explain what medical syndrome they are ---- no one is true "intersex" that is truly between genders, ....this is the difference between genotype and phenotype isnt it ? ....human genetics
@@francisbrewster4948 yes. I agree! It's gotta start somewhere. So I guess at least getting people talking about it is a good start.
I want this to be seen by every American
They are deranged and only care about identity politics.
So true😢
Every human...
Thank you for sharing. Hopefully this will enlighten some ppl who are stuck in their staunch beliefs.
I love your analogy to the red hair statistic. I have red hair and it’s crazy to think that I had just as much of a chance of having red hair as being born intersex.
You don't. The numbers are disingenuous AF.
It's very easy to find both in this comment section and via Google.
That's because it would be ridiculous to believe that red hair is genuinely as common as being intersex. Use your common sense...
It's not a good one because Red heads are a single trait. Intersex is not a single condition. If we take the real number of intersex which is .018 and look into the US population. We are looking at around 61,200. the divide that among many conditions. It's not even close to the number a Red heads. You have to be careful because The 1.7 say according to experts. That doesn't tell use who are the experts. I went to the NIH which i know are medical experts where I got .018.
@@colingibson8930Maybe using statistics might be more accurate? 😂
1.7% is intersex and 1-2% is red head. It seems they don’t have an exact number for it. Red hair is that rare because it’s a gene mutation that both parents have to have copy’s of. It’s the MC1R gene.
It just goes to show that we are a complex species and not so simple to shove into a box. We are all people who deserve respect!
The average, nice person already knows that 😅
DSD are not separate sexes. You people are being deliberately ignorant.
@@blacktigerpaw1So what is this creator's sex? They have XY chromosomes but they're phenotypically female. What bathroom should they be using in your opinion?
Sex is a word we made up to explain what we observe in nature. Intersex people don't fit neatly into either of two rigidity defined boxes. Sex is a useful concept most of the time, but when exceptions occur do we force them to conform in one of two ways or should we just accept them as human beings and allow them to define themselves?
This is a genetic abnormality- its awesome to raise awareness, because this is a person who truly has a struggle.. that fake trans people are taking away from..
@@exhumus all DSDs are sex based. They are not a third sex.
From Witchel 2018:
EMBRYOLOGY
Sexually dimorphic development of the reproductive tracts is influenced by multiple factors. Normal sex development is dependent on the synergistic orchestration of activating and repressing factors interacting in a precise spatio-temporal pattern [6]. Sex determination is governed by the sex chromosomes. The Sex Determining Region on the Y chromosome (SRY) gene located on the short arm of the Y chromosome is the binary switch that initiates the male developmental program [7]. The pivotal experiments performed by Dr. Alfred Jost established the relevance of testosterone for male sexual differentiation [8].
The urogenital ridges develop by 4-6 weeks of gestation as outgrowths of the coelomic epithelium. Subsequently, the urogenital ridges develop into the kidneys, adrenal cortices, gonads, and reproductive tracts. SRY functions as a transcription factor to trigger the developmental trajectory that directs differentiation of the bipotential gonad into a testis during the 6th week of human gestation. SRY induces SOX9 expression; SOX9 activates and maintains the male gonadal differentiation pathway. With differentiation of the Sertoli cells, the developing testis becomes organized into two compartments. One compartment consists of the testis cords that are aggregates of the germ cells surrounded by Sertoli cells and encased by the peritubular myoid cells. The other compartment is the testis interstitium, which contains the Leydig cells and testis vasculature.
Initially, both Wolffian and Müllerian ducts develop. The Wolffian ducts originate as the excretory ducts of the mesonephros. Testosterone, secreted by the fetal Leydig cells, stabilizes the Wolffian ducts resulting in the development of the epididymis, vas deferens, ejaculatory duct, and seminal vesicle. Another hormone secreted by the testis, insulin-like factor 3 (INSL3), mediates testicular descent from the original perinephric location through the abdomen. Testosterone promotes testicular descent into the scrotum. Testicular descent is generally completed by 32 weeks’ gestation. Sertoli cells secrete Anti-Müllerian Hormone (AMH), which induces regression of the Müllerian ducts.
Ovarian differentiation occurs slightly later than testicular differentiation. In the absence of SRY in the female fetus, the ovary specific transcription factors, Forkhead transcription factor 2 (FOXL2), Wingless type MMTV integration site family, member 4 (WNT4), R-spondin 1 (RSPO1), and the activated β-catenin pathway, initiate and maintain ovarian differentiation [9]. In the absence of testosterone and dihydrotestosterone (DHT), the external genital structures develop into the clitoris, vagina, and labia. Both the urethra and the vagina open onto the perineum.
In peripheral target tissues, testosterone is converted to DHT. DHT promotes fusion of the urethral folds to form the corpus spongiosum and penile urethra. DHT also promotes development of the genital tubercle into the corpora cavernosa of the penis and fusion of the labioscrotal folds to form the scrotum.
Primordial germ cells migrate from the allantois to the fetal gonads. Differentiation of germ cells to a spermatogenic or an oogenic fate does not depend on their XY or XX karyotype. Rather, the neighboring somatic cells in the gonads influence germ cell differentiation. In the female embryo, germ cells are exposed to high levels of retinoic acid which induce the expression of STRA8 leading to germ cell meiosis and development of oocytes. In the developing testis, the absence of retinoic acid causes the germ cells to develop into gonocytes that differentiate into spermatogonia and proliferate by mitosis; meiosis only starts at puberty in the male gonad.
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GENETICS OF SEX DIFFERENTIATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Sex development is achieved by the precise synergistic temporal-spatial expression of numerous activating and repressing factors. Deviations from this established developmental sequence can result in disorders of sex development. Investigations into the molecular basis of DSDs in patients have elucidated many genes and genetic regulatory mechanisms involved in this process. Gene expression reflects tissue specificity, programing, and relative dosages to influence cell fate decisions.
Genes involved in the initial differentiation of the bipotential gonad include empty spiracles homeobox2 (EMX2), chromobox homolog2 (CBX2), Wilms’ tumor 1 (WT1), steroidogenic factor 1(NR5A1), LIM homeobox factor 9 (LHX9), sine oculis-related homeobox 1/4 (SIX 1/4), and GATA binding protein 4 (GATA4) [10]. Subsequently, cell fate decisions influence the differentiation of the bipotential genital ridge towards male or female phenotype. This process involves a complex regulatory network in which activation of one pathway, i.e., testicular, leads to repression of the other pathway, ovarian, and vice versa [11].
In the developing testis, SRY promotes SOX9 expression. In conjunction with SRY and NR5A1, SOX9 generates a positive feedback loop for maintaining its expression and to promote Sertoli cell development. Two paracrine signaling molecules downstream of SOX9, fibroblast growth factor 9 (FGF9) and prostaglandin D2 synthase (PGD2) promote maintenance of testicular development [12]. FGF9 signals from the central region of the gonad to promote SOX9 expression and antagonize WNT4 signaling. Other genes relevant for testicular differentiation include CITED4 and other members of the SOX family, i.e. SOX3, SOX10, and SOX13 [13].
Rather than being the “default pathway”, differentiation of the ovary is an active process dependent on the activity of specific factors. WNT4 suppresses SOX9 expression in the pre-granulosa cell of the developing ovary. WNT4 and RSPO1 stabilize β-catenin expression. FOXL2 is another ovarian transcription factor and nuclear protein crucial for differentiation and maintenance of ovarian differentiation [14]. The proteins, WNT4 and RSPO1, promote β-catenin accumulation in the nucleus where it interacts with LEF1 to promote transcription of other genes. FOXL2 and β-catenin also repress SOX9 expression. The WNT4 pathway upregulates follistatin, which inhibits activin B and prevents formation of the testis-specific vasculature [15]. Recent data derived from mouse studies suggest that the orphan nuclear receptor, chicken ovalbumin upstream promoter transcription factor II (COUP-TFII) may play an active role in eliminating the Wolffian ducts in females [16].
We didn't "invent" sex. It's a two billion year old reality, f.uckface.
As a redhead, I pull out this stat when people say intersex is too small of a population to change for.
People like to be ignorant. When you see a redhead, you know they're a redhead because of their hair, or their skin. But when you see an intersex person, you might not know they're intersex. So these people pretend that intersex people don't exist, it's a very "out of sight, out of mind" mentality... By extentsion, this is the case for trans people, disabled people, neurodivergent people... etc.
Society likes to pretend we don't exist when they were the ones who made us hide in the first place :(
I don't think there's as many intersex people, as it's claimed here.
@@ronrocker7131 i mean, sure, disregard the studies done by people who know what they're talking about because you think something, lol
Change in what way?
@@aspwned DSDs are not 1.7% of the population. You are using an Anne Fausto Sterling stat. It's 0.018%. You are welcome.
Good for you ❤ to speak out!
Be proud of who you are!
You rule you 🤗!
It is always better to try to understand than to hate without knowing what you’re talking about.
YES!!! ❤
Sadly not everyone is like that :(
Excellent comment.
If only it weren't easier the other way around...
Now that's a good comment.. Unfortunately for many people it is easier to hate, bc understanding requires brainpower, and insight.. and alot of people are not willing ( or able ) to make such efforts, in life :D
I learned a few years ago that I was also intersex AND had some of my features removed, without knowing or having given consent, when I was a kid. I also learned that mild forms of intersexism occur so often, that a lot of people are intersex and they don't even know it! Biological sex really do be fluid.
maybe you should of just been aborted without your consent so you could not whine about it.
Thank you for sharing your experience. It’s so incredibly important that people are aware this is happening to children every day. No child should be violated like you were. Those doctors were wrong to do that to you without consent and without informing you. I’m so sorry that happened to you, it never should’ve happened.
@@Super_Grover_the doctors didn’t do anything 😂😂 that’s the parents choice
When your a minor ALL medical decisions is done by your parents - doctors can advise but they can’t do shit really cause the parents have the last say on what happens - and will find another doctor to help them - often will get backyard jobs done too …
So stopping doctor’s ain’t the problems cause then you’ll start having a lot more parents mutilating their kids bodies at least when doctors do it it’s safe …
It’s a societal problems where parents are horrified and think they have to just choose 1 gender to not have a child freak
Not fluid. The body doesn't just change about. But there is room to be in the middle.
No, it doesn't. Biological sex is absolute, and determined by the type of gamete your body produces or would produce if it doesn't.
Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, the cause of this condition, is a condition causing the complete inability of the body to react to male hormones(androgens). Hence, the testicles never descend before birth, staying near the kidneys, and the body doesn't react to androgens. But, it's still a male body, as it isn't geared towards production of the female gamete.
As said in the video, biologically male.
thank you for making this. my mother, a former neonatal nurse, used to tell me about this sort of thing happening a lot more often than people talk about, and that any "corrective" surgeries were rarely reported, so unless something's changed, I find it hard to believe that 1.7 is more than a very conservative estimate.
later in life, I came across Alice Dreggar's lecture Is Anatomy Destiny on the subject. one of the less awful ted talks. i think it's actually quite good.
between intersex, the friends I've had with extra digits, the women I've dated who were born with tails, and my own fun adventures with a tremor that somehow increases my life span and strength, I find it hard to reconcile black and white thinking.
I’m sorry about the life shortening tremors :( also the women with tsils sound cool
@@Seevawonderloaf the tremor increases it, not decreases. Weird, but I'll take it over being sicker AND shakier.
WHAT?! A tremor that increases your strength and lifespan? How do they prove it will increase your lifespan? Fascinating! Thank you.
@@toneenorman2135 10 year bonus, on average. The studies looked at lifespans of people with and without familial essential tremors. They don't talk about strength, but everyone in my family who got the tremor also got that. We can beat armwrestlers with arms four times our size, so I assume that's the cause, but maybe it's something else. It does keep our muscles pretty toned, seeing as they're activated fairly constantly.
@@toneenorman2135 lol. Plus, the only treatment known for most of my life was alcohol. That part's not anecdotal, like the strength thing. Apparently, weight training helps. Just learned that today. It's funny how long it took for stience to figure that out, compared with the alcohol.
I hate that people don't feel loved or acknowledged in life due to things beyond their control. 🙏
The information you are sharing here about almost 2% of human beings is important and you do it so clearly and friendly.
It's 0.08%, bud. Not 2%.
Yeah, cherry picking highest estimate is quite misleading
Unfortunately a lot of people throw it out and say "it's such a small number of the population it doesn't matter, so no, there's only 2 sexes" when intersex is a literal 3rd sex with many, many combinations and ways of being such.
@@Fearsia Intersex is NOT a third sex and no actual scientific paper backs your claim. All DSDs are sex based.
XO - female
Swyer XY - female, no SRY
XXY - Klinefelter, male
XYY - Jacobs Syndrome, male
De la Chapelle - No AMH, Wolffian development, male
Ovotestes - does NOT produce both functional sets of gametes or genitalia, generally male
Evolution makes sure there is ONLY two sexes, purely because of the cost of reproduction. You r.etards take Karyotypes as separate sexes despite being told repeatedly that isn't true.
@@Fearsia DSDs are not third sexes. No scientific literature supports this. All of them are sex based.