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Today Is Intersex Awareness Day

post from ThinkProgress on 26 October 2012 11:01:29 AM. © ThinkProgress

Today marks Intersex Awareness Day, which first started in 1996 when activists protested the American Academy of Pediatrics for advocating infant genital surgery on intersex babies to make them “normal.” For those unfamiliar, intersex ? the “I” often now included, especially internationally, in LGBTI or LGBTQI ? is when people are born with intermediate or atypical physical [...]

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