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It should be LGBTI...
I am a 18 year old young lady, and i am not intersexed, but i think that more people should know about it. I found this sight through a teacher, and after doing a lot of reading i realized that the LGBTA community, which i enjoy being a member of, excludes tons of people that need help.
There is a LGBTA group at my school, and i want to try to get them to add an I, for the intersexed people that are here. Because i think we all need somewhere to go for help and support. Plus after sitting in my sociology class, where the majority had no clue what my professor was talking about, she asked if we had intersexed children, would we have "emergency" sex fixing surgeries performed on our infants? After two people said yes, for the good of the child, i turned bright red. I said that if i had an intersexed baby, that was healthy, i would have the needed test done to check for CAH, MRKH, etc. to see what is was. I would not let the doctors touch my child, because there is nothing to fix. Then i would take it amongst myself to inform my child that they are perfectly normal the way they are, and that if later in life if they chose they could have the surgeries they wished with my full support. Then later i was highly upset when my teacher said, micropenis, and half the class couldn't stop laughing. I saw nothing funny, as my professor giggled too.
I guess, i just don't know where to start with trying to add some Intersex Awareness to my college.
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