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Intersex Awareness and Allyship

Our cultural assumption is that sex is binary. Established science shows us that this is not always true, that anyone may possess both male and female determinants of sex, or be intersex.  How many ways are there to measure sex? What quality of information does the ‘pants check’ give us? There have always been people who don’t fit into that binary, so what issues do intersex people face? 

Click below for a deeper look at intersex in different cultures, and how to be an ally.