Category: Awareness
Podcasts: By The Chromodiversity Foundation
Photo by: Harry Cunningham We think you will like this excellent podcast initiative by Elliot Polak, of My XXY - Chromodiversity Foundation that makes understanding research papers a great deal easier for those who yearn for information but fail to grasp the medical language they use. Elliot breaks it down into its raw form and …
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Please Help Merlin Tell His Story and Change Lives
In 2003, when the paediatrician broke the news to the expecting parents that their future child had been diagnosed 'in utero' with a condition called 'Klinefelter Syndrome’ or “XXY’ - and gave them the option to terminate the pregnancy - they were stunned. Why had they never heard of it? How bad was it? Was this …
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About
The XXY Project is an Australian initiative crafted from a need to tackle misinformation perpetrated by Doctor and Parent advocacy groups promoting early androgen interventions among infant and adolescent children who are too young to understand the metamorphism expected of them. We believe in a better approach where the individuals needs are included in the outcome and …
Tomorrow
Just published and made available through Amazon, "Tomorrow" written by Nathan Bowker an XXY individual who identifies their gender as Non Binary, Tomorrow documents the authors lived experiences from difficult school years to an eventual diagnoses of Klinefelter's Syndrome in their early twenties. Unlike a lot of squeaky clean accounts of living with Klinefelter's Syndrome, …
What It's Like to Be Intersex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEXpeq-38Sw “It was like a bomb being dropped into our life.” That’s Isaiah Ngwaru. He’s talking about the moment he and his wife, Betina, discovered their child, Tatenda, was intersex. Although they had been raising her as a boy, Tatenda had railed against the strict masculine norms in their hometown of Gutu, Zimbabwe. She wore …
Intersex: Implications of Umbrella Terms in The Interest of Science.
The intersection of science and identity intensifies the complexity of the umbrella term DSD (Disorders of Sex Development)/Intersex. The interest of science to classify DSD/Intersex conditions to formulate evidence-based best practice has implications on personal identity. Fundamental to ethical decision-making in intersex is the right to choose one’s identity, which includes categorization within the umbrella …
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An Intro to Intersex
Dr Agli Zavros-Orr, who is a Board Member of Intersex Human Rights Australia, speaks with Arion of Joy FM, about what it means to be Intersex.Continue reading.........
How science has shifted our sense of identity
Across the arc of the past 150 years, we can see both science and scientism shaping human identity in many ways. Developmental psychology zeroed in on the intellect, leading to the transformation of IQ (intelligence quotient) from an educational tool into a weapon of social control. Immunology redefined the ‘self’ in terms of ‘non-self’. Information …
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Acceptance
An excerpt from a project by Barbi Gracner, reposted here with the kind permission of the author, someone whom we consider will one day shine a bright light on the rich diversity that is an XXY life. Since childhood, we all learn to wear different masks. They grow with our skin. And it's hard for …
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