Neither Male or Female - Secret Intersex (Gender & Sex Documentary) | Only Human

Most of us consider ourselves either

male

or fe

male

, but each year in Britain, around one in every 4,000 babies born fall within the normal definition of a child with anatomical characteristics of both sexes, with doctors defining them as

intersex

. Actually, I don't consider myself a girl. I consider myself more of a woman than a man, but no, I wouldn't say I'm a woman. Hey, okay, I've gotten kind of sexy, boy, that's good, thumbs together. I'm cutting a French bastard. Were you ever the top user four years ago? Intersexuality Hermaphroditism, as it was once known, has recently been shrouded in secrecy and taboo;

However,

intersex

people have begun to speak out and a passionate debate has arisen about how doctors should treat sexuality and how it should be viewed by the rest of the world in this film that we follow. three families with intersex children facing the dilemmas of growing up

neither

male nor

female

, but somewhere in between, do you ever imagine what it would have been like to have been born a boy? It would be like people with a girl or a person with another form of sexuality and I think most people do it too, obviously, not the intersexuality part because they probably don't understand it as much.

I told him his boys and his girls. and their interns are just another

gender

that won't have babies. I don't have a lot of things like encouraging babies and letting me have babies, but Ella is in I can't have babies and clean, you can't have babies at birth illa sana. She seemed like a normal child, but nine months later her parents discovered that she had complete androgen insensitivity syndrome, or a rare intersex condition in which her body cannot respond to the male hormone testosterone. She had an inguinal hernia which we later discovered. the most common way she presents AIS for the first time and she was in a lot of pain so to take her to the hospital she had surgery and she came back out and what her mother said the surgeon said there was a problem to begin with .

She knew it. that she was ambiguous and had gone crazy as they called her that she actually had testicles there was concern about what could happen if she was going to grow a beard as a teenager because with some conditions she could grow a beard it gives lessons so yeah, it was the kind of worry but also a kind of elation, a kind of interest in it because it's fascinating rather than having

female

X chromosomes. Lily's honor has male XY chromosomes and she should be a boy in utero. Her body was flooded with testosterone, telling him to become a man yet because he is not capable.

To respond to testosterone, she developed default female lines. Outwardly, girls look feminine and most of them have a vagina, but on the inside, where their reproductive organs should be, they have testicles, where the ovaries are basically our testicles, there is no penis, obviously no external tests for teenagers. there is also no uterus, there is limited secondary sexual development, you have breasts but no axial hair and, because of the cut, being on the male side, that well-being is a male hormone because she is insensitive, it obviously does not work, doctors traditionally advised parents to keep an intersex diagnosis a

secret

because, almost unusually, the designers' family was determined to be open first.

I was raised knowing that there hasn't been a moment where I suddenly realized, oh, okay, I'm different because I always knew it was just Who I am and when they showed it in school, we prepare the teachers if she says that , they don't really hum boy or girl, I'm intersex or whatever because she's so proud of it, if she says that then she should be reinforced. in that you know we didn't want the teachers hanging around, don't talk that nonsense, the doctors recommended that Anna de Ella have her testicles removed partly due to the risk of cancer in the future, but also to help reinforce her feminine identity , the dilemma for her. is that her testicles produce estrogen in addition to testosterone and without them she would have to take replacement female hormones at some point she will have to make a decision about her testicles.

They are not a dilemma in terms of identity or anything like that. They are part of who, she is the

only

reason to take them off would be for medical reasons related to cancer risk. There's actually no increased risk of cancer until a little later in life and I say I can't see anything. The reason to take them off at this point would simply be an operation that makes no sense and means I would be on hormone replacement therapy for the rest of my life and that is something I just don't want to be on. upset with a is a hereditary condition that is passed down through the maternal line when with her new partner Neal Nancy became pregnant with Xenia there was a one in four chance that she was also intersex when I was pregnant they offered to do several tests so I was able to find out if my son had an is and I asked him do you know why? and naturally it's because if my son had an is, he could have bought it in what, oh yeah, certainly, um, so I turned down the test because he was very happy to have the yarn from him. when i first found out i remember feeling really excited you know wow there's another one like me oh yeah i thought i was pretty good when i was born the doctors didn't know if i was male or female i had to park the taste day and burn our penis so I thought or a boy and some who didn't have a penis a couple of days later he says no, you have a girl because they did some tests and found out that God Pavin on Louise was born with true hermaphroditism. an extremely rare intersex condition defined by doctors as having part testicle and part ovary inside at birth, her genitals were so underdeveloped that she appeared

neither

male nor female, because at the time it was easier for surgeons to create a fold of skin for a girl than for a boy. she was designed to look like a vagina, her ovary and testicles were cut out and the doctors advised her mother to raise Louise as a woman, they said it would be better to raise them as girls, they said it would be an idea because I already have your daughters in At home, Sadie, not to tell anyone, I mean, although by then we had already announced in the local paper that we had to get a body, and I said, you know, the

only

people who really needed to know were me and the doctor when was born it was the doctors tell my mother to keep it quiet don't tell me what me just you and me you and the doctors after now that's a fact if you can try to hide it from Louise when Louise was born the doctors believed that parenting overcame nature by determining a child's innate sense of whether they are male or female by raising Louise as a girl, the theory was that she would behave like a girl and would never need to know of her status, she did not play with any girls in the office In general, they were always children's things.

I bought bow ties, I mean, her husband didn't like them at all. You know, you should buy her girl toys, but she wasn't going to play with them. We know Cobain is her favorite. The toy was a tractor and trailer and she had said that every word she knew was not normal because she spent a lot of time in the hospital. I look different and feel a little different. I also talk about how she will feel about those the girls play with. dolls and that, but I didn't want to, I want to play with cars and things like that, why the interesting non-commercial photography, that's right, yes, I don't do exchanges, button I train in photography, it's different, I think he's been on drugs since when I I had a child and new things to take I learned a lot in training at Great Ormond Street Hospital the thinking comes from that sort of thing River, as well as being intersex, rope-like Louise spent much of her childhood in the hospital and confused about her

gender

, his behavior became increasingly disruptive.

He used to do anything to get her attention. I also used to get picked on a lot, so I used to try to do everything I could to try to win Ella's friends because I felt so alone and unloved. and aggression was a form of release, it was like a volcano that was going to wash away all the anger, it was simply released with a girl who you took it out on, talking about me, mom, she pulled a knife on me, you know, she cooks the furniture and just keep the tools on the doors and that's what I found a picture of that kind of thing she had to do with me look at me she buttered me I found her last night I thought oh I'll leave that out and show you something like that . of things just to do it as a teenager, Louise was given almost 20 female security souls to hide her daughter's interceptions.

HFS got a computer and then broke the cutter and hurt Z. I want you to read this and don't show anyone else Mom writing this. so difficult, so please don't take it the wrong way. I like mom. I want to ask you something. Did you end all these problems like this? If so, why did you keep me alive to go through all the pain? annoying, I have almost no friends, I'm not likely to get a job and whether or not I do it to keep it, I'll be honest most of the time. I think you lied to me, please tell me what you know especially about me. and my problems because I want to know what to expect for the rest of my life your lovingly Louise Thompson your beloved daughter I just didn't know what cetera and yes very well everyone alive and that monster asking questions because I just don't know what to say and she knows that I have always loved her but it's very difficult when you know you don't know what to say and because you've actually talked about it with anyone then you know I couldn't talk to her because she was saying anything.

She was one of the doctors when I was checking her newborn, they called me on the side and said there was a problem, she had a big clitoris and it wasn't because Johnny was actually closed, yeah like I said they weren't too sure if she had ovaries. Bianca has an inherited intersex condition called congenital adrenal hyperplasia or CAH, unlike girls with AIS her chromosomes are female and she has one world and a failure in her ovaries meant her body, as a result her vagina did not fully form. a small penis that I had before having noble children Bianca was different being a different father if the same 48 genes put together they simply produced completely you know, 240 genes produce a defective gene obviously that is what happens in Bianca's case, so it's one in 10,000 so it's very very condition to happen so unfortunately they even asked me cousins ​​if we were related but now obviously I'm putting clues into anything until very recently surgeons routinely cut or reduced the enlarged clitoris of a girl with CAH, but there has been a fury. lives of intersex adults who claim that what was in effect cosmetic surgery has ruined their sex life The dilemma for Bianca's mother and the doctors is how aggressive they should be in treating her condition the operation where they will ultimately restore the area vaginal so they're going to leave the clitoris I said it's because they did research around the world saying that women wouldn't feel any pleasure sexually so they decided they were going to leave that intersex activists argue that even limited surgery is generally not necessary until CAH bills reach puberty and, despite the natural desire of most parents for a normal girl, many doctors are now tired early, so she was born at a stage when opinion against early surgery was probably at its peak.

Bianca I think she must have been one of the first CAH patients where we seriously sat down and discussed with the mother the concept of not operating to feminize our genitals. Don't worry, she stops making noise. I think this was extremely traumatic for Bianca's mother, of course Bianca would have done it. to look like a little girl because she was little, you know, the other side is the appearance of the external genitalia that we are going to correct, so we will make it with the normal appearance that will be for the It is best that you undergo this operation and The sooner the better, so that it grows normally, so I'm quite stupid, parents, I'm quite positive and very happy, now there will be a dance in which at the end you are scared.

We really made the decision to go ahead and offer her feminizing surgery. She gained 102 37 36 kilos. We feel that it would be almost impossible for her to be raised in a happy family environment if this surgery was not performed. Lilia and the doctors agreed. a compromise Bianca's clitoris will not be cut off but hidden inside a reconstructed vagina and when she is older she will be able to decide if she undergoes another surgery; However, since Bianca is one of the first girls in Britain to undergo this new procedure, her long-term results are unknown. Do you want a blanket?

Yes, we will remove it now. Yes, they called us to come down, so the high levels of testosterone that cost us would be anchors in the body while she was in the room, they used half of her labia and it joined her urethra to have a vagina, if you can see here , this is your bladder and behind it is your vagina and that is the urethra, the tube through which it drains and both join to form a common channel, so it is one of the main parts of theoperation. today is to separate those two so that you end up with two apertures below, in addition to making the anatomy look more normal and two medium magnifications, good depth of field, good breath, you can see everything from the late '70s and early '70s. 80, this condition being shrouded in secrecy, the trend was to offer surgical treatment in early childhood with the express intention that the diagnosis of any intersex problem would not be revealed and that the child would be raised very firmly in the assigned gender.

The condition would generally not be disclosed to close relatives and certainly probably not to the child, even when they go to a gram. Yes, it is certainly true, so the initial approaches were philosophical and became ideological rather than based on evidence, but we completely lack evidence to show that the approach we have delayed is going to be better and, in fact, we don't even know if the delayed approach could be even worse in the long run, so in some ways we are blindly practicing today like her half-sister Ellis in the ER Xenia as androgen insensitivity syndrome or AIS, although apparently girls have chromosomes male and testicles where their ovaries should be, while doctors understand the physical side of their condition, much less is known about how to be.

Intersexuality affects a child's behavior. An innate sense of gender. If I look, I probably see the mix and I probably see less mix in Xenia because her outward personality is more feminine or her interest in pretty things is not feminine. I'm quite feminine, if I had to do anything, some of her behavior can be quite juvenile. Yes, it will be interesting to see what happens at puberty. I really like karate and Bray dancing, and they are probably considered quite masculine things. See a nurse on me. I felt that when you were going through puberty you showed a certain growling characteristic that I've always associated with boys, but you also have a strong feminine side.

I think you have the best of both worlds. I don't care if they see themselves as super women or girls with AIS or as intersex beings. I'm happy to accept whatever makes them feel comfortable with themselves and if in order to feel comfortable with themselves they feel the need to Instruct society at large that there is a neutral gender, that's fine too. Usually when I meet someone, I start talking to them and everything, I'll get to know them and let them get to know me and then tell them I'm not really what I look like. I'm actually intersex.

There is usually quite a bit of curiosity about what the tool is and what it means. Yes, you generally shoot with his suppressor. We live in a society that has these two opposite men. and woman is a lie, there are a lot of gradations, I'm sure he did it and no, I don't think he is, do you feel now that no, were you ever one, have you felt it all?, there was something that made you got sick I've been preventing you from being able to function like this, my ears, yeah, you don't work much. Its like me.

This doesn't have to be because you are inter in contrast to Her. Anna and Zinnia. Luiz spent most of his childhood without knowing the truth. Her condition only recently allowed her daughter to see her medical nails for herself, yes, the first thing they put us right in the diagnosis, which was May 7, 1977, was intersex P, now a Genesis plus specific urethral orifices in our rectum. Were there things there? You didn't learn much. I'm not well. What do you think? This girl has 46 XY chromosomes. I have an idea, but I just discovered that she actually gives me crumbs. in an XY makeup, normal circumstances is Do you think it was a right decision to raise Louise earlier?

No, no, unless you're saying that tone, Tim, no, it's sincere. I don't think about Ryan's decision now, Louise, do you think? they probably miss the right decision I said, I think it was yes, could you imagine life like it's not for me? No, my father doesn't think it's possible to make that blow with a moving knife. The woman couldn't really say what it will be like to be raised in the mail, I think it would be a little unfair to say if she was right or wrong, but what I do think is that it shouldn't be done.

Children should be given the choice, when they grow up, of whether they should be raised as men or women he is buying 85 and 959 89 spits 16 she was still, you know, youthful. I just asked him. she, you know, would like to start a first Mac, you know, taught by, I'm quite willing, you know, to go with it. I moved away where suddenly you didn't know where people didn't know us and you know what to start over she wants or what do you think about it for a while, but not nine months after surgery to restore her vagina? Lilia has Bianca brought to live in her native Madeira Polynesia, she is fine, she recovered very well, the surgery was a success, I am very happy and she recovered very quickly.

They did the right thing by doing the surgery now because now she will grow like, I mean, she would. Get used to what it is, you wouldn't know the difference. The anchors condition means that she continues to produce too much testosterone and to prevent her body from becoming masculinized, she will be dependent on drugs for the rest of her life. Yes, yes, I will, but. I'll make sure she doesn't feel any different. I'll make sure she understands that it could have been worse, it could have been something really, really worse, really bad, so there's nothing to worry about for Rinka despite the apparent success of her operation.

When Bianca enters puberty, she will most likely need more surgery to create a fully functioning vagina. When she is older, she will undergo another operation, but she will have to decide that she will not pursue me. Decide that it is not better, she cannot blame. You do, that's true, you can't blame me, but she can, I don't know, I mean the kids, we don't know what's going to happen, what's going through their minds, so I know who could blame me. I don't know, the big fat doctors and hospitals involved in my life from the day I was born.

I have wanted to exercise for a couple of years. Think about one point two operations for every year I've been alive. They still continue. Yes. Seven years ago, Louise underwent major surgery. surgery to build a vagina that turned out to be unsuccessful. Now she came to London to discuss with another urologist the possibility of undergoing a second operation. You know that right now you don't have anything that can really pass for a vagina. There's some skin there. from the previous surgery and the way we would do this operation is to try to use as much skin as you have done on your crotch and we may be able to use some of your bladder one way or another, we should be able to make a vagina some of Your crotch tissues will be sexually sensitive those are the areas we do our best to preserve but I really couldn't promise you that the vagina would have a real sexual sensation.

I couldn't promise you that you would be able to have an orgasm with him. It can be operated if you want to cure an intersex condition. No, it is not a curable condition at the current state of our knowledge and the results of a complex vaginoplasty in sexual terms are not very good, Louise, that is quite radical. surgery, why go ahead? It will make me feel complete as a person, but at the moment when I don't know where I am because there is not much I can do, I mean, forget about getting married, basically, I shake at that moment, so I don't really feel complete in the Hospital.

London Middlesex. Louise is about to undergo major surgery; It is a second attempt by doctors to construct a vagina for the operation, which is complicated by Louise's unique physiology and the mass of scar tissue from a previous surgery. This type will require a complex vaginoplasty probably about four or six times a year, but in general it is a very unusual procedure. Louise had some sexual feelings last night in the living room. She marked skin that she feels is sensitive and it's very important to use as much of that as possible. How is it possible, yes, everything here is quite stuck together, which is a normal consequence of previous surgery.

There are shortcuts to this, you just have to choose it. 26 years ago, without a doubt, making a vagina was much easier than making a penis now. Both can be done Louise was born today, would you be the sign of the female gender in the same way? I think it's almost impossible to answer that question because your situation is so rare. I think that in light of the knowledge we now have about genital function, we could probably have tried to raise her as a male. Five hours after the operation, the doctors run into a major problem. Louise's pelvic bone is male in the art of the shaman is too narrow and needs to be opened to accommodate her new vagina.

The vagina is a little tighter than I'd like, but I think it's as good as we could have done, chiselling more pubic bone. I think she would have destabilized him and may make walking a little difficult. Remi dreams of that too, a normal life, even having a boyfriend. and get married, so I was surpassing my dreams because they forced me in the right direction, but I could have turned around. He said no, I want to change, but no, I want to be a woman. I feel like a woman. I know I will continue. I want to go to the end of my life as a woman and complete myself as a woman.

I don't really think of it as boys and girls, something I've ever had, let's just let it be the individual and how you react to them, you say. You're absolutely open about being intersex, I mean, in terms of boyfriends, how does that complicate things? For other people it could be a problem what it doesn't mean is that you're 16 it's something you don't think about as much because I've always thought you know if I want to have children then you know I can adopt him. It won't be exactly the same, but you know okay, tell me about the boyfriend you had in school.

He was about 14 15, he was about 17 to everyone else, maybe he didn't seem like the ideal match, but to me, he loved me, I loved him. We got along quite well We had a lot in common We had male friends but not in terms of relationships I would like the right man to come along I would like to have a little fun in the meantime I must be honest What do you see yourself doing in the future? I'm going to go to that university formative arts course. I really like the buzz of standing in front of people saying, "Hey, this is me or rather this is not me, I guess, but if that fails, then I want to do genetics, I'd change the subject." With that you know, I really like the biology in you.