Today November 8, we celebrate Intersex Day of Solidarity, to remember that in 1838, Herculine Barbin was born in France, called at birth, Alexina B.
With 29 years old, desperate for the incomprehension and social harassment, which pursued him, until Paris, on March 13, 1868, leaving us, as a testimony of life, his memoirs, he suffocated. Considered the first person, with intersex corporeality, who described how he had lived it..
Book, out of print, Herculine Barbin called Alexina B. by Michel Foucault.
Book, MY MEMOIRS in the version transcribed and edited by Dr. Ambroise Tardieu of the manuscript that Abel Barbin, baptized Adelaïde Herculine and also known as Alexina B. or Camille until he legally changed his name to Abel, left behind after committing suicide on the night of March 12-13, 1868. ABEL BARBIN.
We celebrate the Solidarity within the Intersex Collective, the Solidarity of the allies who accompany us, the Solidarity of the LGBTIAQ+ Collectivity more and more involved every day in making us visible.
And you, what do you know about the more than 800,000 intersex people that we are, your fellow citizens?
Despite being the 156th anniversary, the Intersex Community, we continue to endure the same misunderstanding, stigmatization, harassment, social unprotection. There are still media that from disinformation launch unverified news, manipulate them, do not respect the right to self-image, identity, these tricksters of morbidity, aware of the helplessness that until now, intersex people, for fear of visibility and the consequences that may arise from it, have kept silent, stoically enduring and entering into a circle of revictimization.
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What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. When they sink you to the bottom, the only option left is to pick up momentum and get out.
Today, we continue to demand the prohibition, without ifs and buts, of infantile genital mutilations (MGI), behavioral hormones, cosmetic operations without informed and contrasted consent, experimentations on intersex corporealities. That the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training place us within the educational curricula, so that never again will an intersex person in class feel that he or she does not belong. Informative and training courses for civil servants and people who, because of their work, have to interact with us. Access to sex/affective and reproductive information, adapted to our corporealities. Allowing the option of opposing to the State Security Forces and Corps, that are the tests that determine our capabilities, instead of the current preventive discrimination.
Our demands go in search of an equalization of our human rights, with yours, that you have them for being endosex, that is to say for not having an intersexual corporality. They are not our bodies, they are your looks, uninformed.
Asmi Molina, Intersex Activist