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Check out ‪#‎IntersexMedMondays‬ on twitter and share a post! Here’s my first tweet using the new hashtag… “Intersex folks don’t want your medicalization. We want our liberation.”

Transcript: series of pictures of a person standing in front of a chain-link fence outside a hospital, with a whiteboard on which four messages are written. The whiteboards say:

• When I was 1, doctors here at children’s took out my internal testes.
• When I was 4, Dr. Bauer gave me a clitorectomy at this hospital.
• When I was 11, surgeons gave me a non-consensual vaginoplasty so I could have sex with my “husband”
• Doctors told my family to hide the truth, & tell me I had ovarian cancer instead…