The system didn’t want to say that I’m intersex. That I’m not female or male. The doctors wanted to choose a gender for me and then make my body agree with their ideas about who I should be.”― Pidgeon Pagonis, Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir

Money spent the rest of his childhood in a predominantly female household in consistent poverty. His childhood instilled in him a dislike of religious dogma and sexual prudery as well as a deep class-consciousness alongside his ambition to transcend his meager beginning, Science would become his religion”― Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea

She glanced over at me. “Are you gay because you’re intersex?” “No. That has nothing to do with it. Gender and sexual orientation are two totally different things.”― Sarah Havan, An Omega Kind of Love

It is important for LGBTQIA+ folks, especially youth, to have queer role models. Visibility normalizes queerness, decreases societal stigma, and makes youth safer.”― Charlie McNabb, Queer Adolescence: Understanding the Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual Youth

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