Local intersex activist xoxy_alicia discusses participating in new documentary Every Body.
, in cinemas now from Focus Features release.
For all the GOP’s obsession with biology when it comes to queer people’s bodies, there’s up to 2% of the population that is living proof that gender is more shades of grey than black and white. New documentaryIn cinemas now, the new documentary from Julie Cohen features three intersex people: Actor River Gallo, Intersex Justice Project cofounder Sean Saifa Wall, and political activist Alicia Roth Weigel, well known in Austin for her intersex advocacy.
To this day, doctors perform unnecessary and dangerous surgeries on children that can have adverse physical consequences down the line. In Weigel’s case, doctors removed the internal testes she was born with, which “forced my body into hormone withdrawal, leaching calcium from my bones, which is why I now have osteoporosis. That's very common in the intersex community.
The irony of many legislatures banning surgeries for trans people and forcing them on intersex people is not lost on Weigel, a veteran of the Texas legislature: “All those same bills have explicit language in them that say that you can continue to force surgeries and hormones on intersex kids. So they're saying, don't give surgeries and hormones to trans kids who want them, but you can continue to force them nonconsensually on kids who never asked for them.
Furthermore, laws banning trans health care can affect adult intersex patients as well. Weigel said they’ll make it harder for her to access hormones she needs to replace those that were taken from her as a child. “There's just so little awareness of the intersex population that we're essentially
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