This fascinating video is about an intersex person named Adele. She was born with ambiguous genitals. Her parents and doctors chose to make her male. And so she underwent a series of operations to make her physically look like a male. Now, as an adult she identifies as mostly female. She can have an operation to make her genitals more like those of a cisexual woman, but she hopes that eventually the medical profession will allow intersex children to choose their gender for themselves and that society as a whole will accept intersex individuals as what they are.
Before I saw this I had no idea that there are 46 different intersex conditions. I also had no idea that "All angels are intersex, they're hermaphrodite." I'm also pretty amazed at how much she had to fem up to impress upon the doctor the extremity of her situation. It just goes to show that we as a society have a long way to go.
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