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Body shaming is an intersex issue

19 Aug 2016


Please note that this post contains distressing images. It intersperses quotations about intersex infants and children with quotations about the bodies of public figures.

Body shaming is an intersex issue, perhaps even more than any other issue. It stunts people’s lives and provides rationales for harmful medical interventions. If you want to know why openly intersex voices are so few and far between then look no further than the body shaming and stigmatisation visible here.

Read more on Oii Australia.

Categoria: Around the world Tags: criminalization, discrimination, gender, gender identity, human rights, intersex rights, LGBTQ rights, sexual politics, sexual rights, violence

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