Intersex Awareness Day started over 20 years ago on October 26, 1996 in Boston. That day several intersex people and their supporters publicly protested the countless, nonconsensual surgeries performed on intersex babies to make them “normal.”…
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Recently, 17-year-old Alaska high school swim champion, Breckynn Willis, won a 100-meter freestyle race, something common for the teen. What was uncommon, however, was her immediate disqualification. A referee accused Breckynn of violating the sport’s…
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Could summer have gone by any quicker? Yep, it’s time to go back to school, and we all know what that means: shopping for books and clothes, signing up for courses and making sure that all of the boxes are […]
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“New name, same game: SHAME.” That’s just one of the rallying cries for the #SRAisAbstinenceOnly campaign, which is challenging funding and support for sexual risk avoidance (SRA) programs. SRA is a new name for an old concept: abstinence-only…
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“Don’t you know that masturbation causes hair loss?” my friend says, as he pulls up an article online. “Look, it says that masturbation increases testosterone in the body, which creates DHT, a hormone that leads to male pattern baldness!”…
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Photo credit: Take Back The Night Foundation While scrolling through my Facebook timeline recently, I saw that some of my friends were interested in an event called “Take Back the Night.” I’d heard about it in previous years but was […]
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Gender Spectrum, an organization whose mission is to create a gender-inclusive world for all children and youth, has just released a report about gender-inclusive health education classes. One of the areas they cover is the benefits of having health…
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Imagine being born with a vagina but no ovaries or possessing chromosomes that don’t neatly fit either male (XY) or female (XX) categories. There’s a name for it—intersex. Being intersex can include a vast range of biological features; anything…
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