Testosterone: suffering the system, not the medication
Morgan writes about the problems associated with being prescribed a controlled substance.
Personal stories (page 6 of 6)
Personal stories and testimony, with a focus on testimony by people with intersex variations.
Karin: “Fact, fiction and intersex lives”
In a world as heavily mediated as ours, where the boundary between reality staged for entertainment and reality documented for information is blurred, and sometimes lost altogether, works of fiction often encroach upon the territory of fact – the danger is that we may not be able to tell the difference. That certainly happens when…
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Adele’s Story, “I’m 80% Girl, 20% Boy”, by Maxx Ginnane
A short documentary film made by London-based Australian director Maxx Ginnane about a woman named Adele and her struggles with the UK medical system.
Karin: “Middle Sexes”, not all the same
Intersex people are often represented as being all the same, or as slight variations on a uniform theme. So, too, are trans men and women. Likewise, the Hijras of India and Pakistan, or the Kathoey of Thailand, are depicted as being near-identical clones of each other. It’s a new form of an old trope –…
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Karin: Lili Elbe’s autobiography, Man into Woman
Download a copy of this book review as a PDF Published autobiographies written by intersex people are rare. Socially-imposed guilt and shame at being born intersex have led to fewer such books being published than one might wish for – we can learn so much from how others like us have lived. I’d always known…
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The Age on Tony Briffa: “Choosing the right gender”
Despite a difficult childhood, Tony Briffa is a resilient pragmatist with a wonderful sense of humour, writes Lily Bragge. When Tony Briffa was born at Altona Hospital in 1970, doctors were unable to determine his gender. The younger of a set of twins, Briffa’s sister Catherine was confidently announced to be a girl, but for…
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