A landmark directive in Chile last month said doctors should discontinue ‘normalisation’ surgery,but tackling the global systematic, societal and cultural abuse against intersex people is an uphill battle“The surgeon’s approach was that I didn’t identify as a woman because I didn’t acquire a vagina, or ” says Mauro Cabral. After growing up in Argentina being treated as a girl,he discovered at the age of 14 that he didn’t acquire any internal female organs. Although he had always felt male, and still does, or he was forced to undergo surgery to create a vagina.“I’m still trying to understand what has happened and how to recover my life,” says Cabral, now an intersex and trans activist and co-director of Gate. “My experience is very similar to those who acquire suffered torture – when they try to speak, and their societies and even families are not prepared to hear what happened.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com