I’m a biological male… born looking female?

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  • @johnrobi0
    @johnrobi0 ปีที่แล้ว +50278

    "What gender are you?"
    "I'm still in character selection mode."

    • @OperatorSierra
      @OperatorSierra ปีที่แล้ว +405

      🤣 funniest comment ever!

    • @prapanthebachelorette6803
      @prapanthebachelorette6803 ปีที่แล้ว +417

      I think seeing it this way is kinda nice perspective 😊

    • @sharp5687
      @sharp5687 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      Stolen comment

    • @johnrobi0
      @johnrobi0 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      @@sharp5687 Correct. It wasn't mine first.

    • @somefrigginguy2844
      @somefrigginguy2844 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Good for you lol. 👍

  • @alanmckinnon6791
    @alanmckinnon6791 ปีที่แล้ว +8764

    Yes people, intersex is a real thing, and intersex people are entitled to just as much love and understanding as everyone else!

    • @doggyhouz
      @doggyhouz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Where the

    • @nihilioellipsis
      @nihilioellipsis 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      I am increasingly certain that when speaking about love and rights as social conditions and treatment that all people are entitled to, we will inhibit social progress. A plurality of people in the United States believe things about the non-normative members of the society that completely block the chances of their receptiveness to accepting the full humanity of the people they fear/hate. Some of these things are non-anglo languages, for an accent, dark skin, non-traditional hetero sexual attraction, being poor, lacking formal institutional education, having too much formal and institutional education, being non-Christian, even up to an including the point of rejecting certain branches or sects. of Christianity as heretical.
      When people like this encounter anything having to do with intersex, the immediately categorize it is unnatural as they do same sex attraction, bisexuality, and as we have seen, sex with children.
      Imagine having a discussion about when a person is born with both ovarian and testicular tissue. For them, much of the time, the conversation will stop and they will name that intersex condition as unnatural.
      Perhaps taking the focus off rights and putting it on individual, group, and institutional *prohibitions* against harming others might put the focus and responsibility where it needs to be--on bigoted aggressors and corrupt institutions.

    • @jacobmoretz3243
      @jacobmoretz3243 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@nihilioellipsis The wildest part is that, by every metric, being born intersex is *more* natural than their blind hate, or doctors committing medical malpractice in order to attempt to "gender" someone born intersex.

    • @christinegivens9048
      @christinegivens9048 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      Absolutely. One day we will get to the place in this world where we accept one another exactly as we are. ❤❤❤

    • @wmj1860
      @wmj1860 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      at least she's not pretending like those other people who like to pretend to be the opposite gender. this is the only scenario where a woman has male chromosomes.

  • @noseferachoo
    @noseferachoo ปีที่แล้ว +8460

    My mother was the same although at that time her doctor told her she had an “infantile uterus.” Later on, I learned in a college class that it’s known as Androgen Insensitivity. When the male fetus rejects androgen it reverts to female. Some people with this syndrome have both male and female parts (tho the penis is small). Many times the women are taller with bigger feet and hands or deeper voices. My mom was tall and gangly. Others like you look and function just like other women but there almost never is a uterus so child bearing is impossible. My mom was able to get married and have normal relations but she had to adopt. We realized later on in a very distressing way that she was embarrassed about not being able to have her own children all her life and kept it a secret. I feel so bad for her. I wish I could have told her there are others like her and she had nothing to be ashamed of. She taught me how to be a woman because that’s what she was. Love is stronger than blood, Mom. Thanks for giving me a good home.

    • @theresespencer2827
      @theresespencer2827 ปีที่แล้ว +455

      Oh thank you for sharing such a beautiful tribute to your mom. ❤

    • @brownbrown9554
      @brownbrown9554 ปีที่แล้ว +289

      ❤ Beautiful story ! I am truly sorry that you didn't get a chance to share this with her 😢. But without knowing you, I have a feeling that she definitely knew how much you truly loved her regardless of how you entered into her life ❤

    • @julsweaver
      @julsweaver ปีที่แล้ว +200

      I'm really proud of you AND your mother. You sound like wonderful women ❤️

    • @laurasmith4783
      @laurasmith4783 ปีที่แล้ว +153

      Nobody should feel ashamed of who they are born to be.

    • @KristenRowenPliske
      @KristenRowenPliske ปีที่แล้ว +184

      @@LawrenceRussellSaturnSelection No. This has been happening for thousands of years, long before “civilized” countries started using chemicals. Happened before countries were even a thing.

  • @navalrathore9199
    @navalrathore9199 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1812

    As an Indian in a state where Hindi is a mandate subject we are taught that there are 3 genders male, female and the intersex ( नपुंसक in Hindi ) in primary school .

    • @MadnessWasHere
      @MadnessWasHere 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +119

      Thats actually quite cool ngl❤

    • @Cħris
      @Cħris 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Isn’t that grammatical gender though?

    • @navalrathore9199
      @navalrathore9199 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      @@Cħris It is but when I was in school we weren't taught about this in English (as language subject) I just wanted to say that. And as I said in Hindi we were taught that there are 3 genders whereas in English there are 4 . But the common gender isn't really about gender it's based on noun and the neuter is neither male nor female but I feel like intersex is the combination of both with imperfect ratio .

    • @Cħris
      @Cħris 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @@navalrathore9199 I think the proper term for “intersex” in grammatical gender is “neuter”. There was just a little confusion between the two terms

    • @ayselala90
      @ayselala90 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Same here in Germany

  • @katienichole6905
    @katienichole6905 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +17486

    "What's your gender?"
    Complicated
    "What's your biological sex??"
    Complicated
    "Well fine what's in your pants!?"
    Buddy. You're not gonna believe it... But it's complicated

    • @davidryke113
      @davidryke113 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +100

      Takes x-ray of pelvis. "Your a male". Not that complicated.

    • @Averymoasycreek
      @Averymoasycreek 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1075

      @@davidryke113Actually biology isn’t that simple! Genetalia are a spectrum which I know is confusing because we normally associate it being completely binary but sometimes someone can have both, neither, or in between and just because they were born a certain way doesn’t mean we have the right to hate them or invalidate them.❤

    • @davidryke113
      @davidryke113 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @ben42gamer56 Actually biology is that simple. Someone with a Y will never have a functioning womb. There has never existed such a being in all of human history. Same thing goes for X. The absence of Y ensures no sperm can be made. It's that simple.

    • @davidryke113
      @davidryke113 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

      @@Averymoasycreek This makes as much sense as calling someone born without the ability to walk not human, because they can't walk upright and therefore are on a spectrum to a different species like a fish or lizard. Biology defines what we are and we are born with it in every strand of DNA.

    • @PillboxBollocks
      @PillboxBollocks 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +553

      @@davidryke113Nice. That is both a Bad Faith argument and a False Equivalence.
      - Nobody of sound mind discriminates against deformed people.
      - Possessing natural appendages =/= being categorized Human.

  • @BonitaSixx
    @BonitaSixx 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +624

    Dear Lord, idc what ur gender, u r frickin absolutely stunningly beautiful.

    • @Ravensikkness
      @Ravensikkness 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Facts.

    • @Ravensikkness
      @Ravensikkness 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

      ​@bobbobbington3615shitting on people because they say nice things to someone is embarrassing. You should be embarrassed, pal.

    • @gsgaming6976
      @gsgaming6976 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@bobbobbington3615I mean, the fact that it's kinda cringe to say it out loud in this sort of parasocial relationship doesn't make it wrong....

    • @furcoatt
      @furcoatt 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      @bobbobbington3615complimenting people is embarrassing…?

    • @YumWater
      @YumWater 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sex* /nm

  • @ksis86
    @ksis86 ปีที่แล้ว +43017

    It really gets on my nerves that people forget intersex is a thing. “You’re either a man or a woman” 😂

    • @popularopinion2181
      @popularopinion2181 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      People usually say that to fake transistors. I personally have never seen people go after intersex people, even conservatives.

    • @joelama23
      @joelama23 ปีที่แล้ว

      There is only 2 genders, male and political /s

    • @C0rvidC4rrion
      @C0rvidC4rrion ปีที่แล้ว +2100

      People are gonna be stupid no matter what. It’s just so embarrassing that they could do a little sliver of research about sex and gender and what actually constitutes those things to seem less stupid (or just to actually learn) but choose not to

    • @charlottemacmaster3221
      @charlottemacmaster3221 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s a genetic mutation, not a gender identity. The exception proves the rule. There are still only two genders.

    • @charlottemacmaster3221
      @charlottemacmaster3221 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@C0rvidC4rrion Well, for one, gender and sex are the same thing. Second, this is a genetic mutation. Not a “gender identity”. There are still only two genders, and this person can still fit in the category of one. It’s just a birth defect.

  • @van_ol1056
    @van_ol1056 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +189

    "what are you, boy or girl"
    "I'm stunning 💁‍♀️"

    • @Itsmeeddy
      @Itsmeeddy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Truth. No one is talking about how pretty she is

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Itsmeeddy You wouldn't be here if they were ugly.

    • @MRD-x2c
      @MRD-x2c 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Interesting 🎉😊

    • @van_ol1056
      @van_ol1056 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@Itsmeeddy literally. And I don't get why people get mad over not knowing the sex of a person. Like chill it's not your business what goes on in other people's underwear or bodies💀

  • @salemccc
    @salemccc ปีที่แล้ว +1871

    One of my closest friends in high school was intersex. The female gender was forced onto him because it was treated as "oh your baby was born as a mix, so now you, the parents, get to choose!" Needless to say, that caused quite a few issues in my friend's life, as evidenced by the fact that he later transitioned to being male. Knowing him, knowing his story, I just really wish there was more flexibility in our society in regards to gender (for a multitude of reasons, honestly).

    • @brucehwang9789
      @brucehwang9789 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You can't force a gender on someone..the reality is with intersex people there is usually a superficial non functioning penis or vagina...there is no such thing as a person having two fully functional organs..it sounds like your friend is one of those who is female and simply had a defect of a small superficial penis...that doesn't make them a male, it just means they have an easily flexible defect but have instead choose to be trans

    • @avalondreaming1433
      @avalondreaming1433 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Well, he has a MUCH easier time today than he would have had 30 years ago.

    • @salemccc
      @salemccc ปีที่แล้ว +175

      @@avalondreaming1433 Of course, it's just sad that it has to happen at all was my main point. I wasn't trying to create a competition of who suffered more and place my friend at the top; just simply empathizing with needless human suffering.

    • @dimitar297
      @dimitar297 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Trump 2024.

    • @dr-fd8zn
      @dr-fd8zn ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@dimitar297troll

  • @Polishedandperfected
    @Polishedandperfected ปีที่แล้ว +7253

    I know an intersex woman whose parents decided she was a boy when she was a baby. She always felt like she was a woman but her parents refused to accept that. A couple years ago she came out and has been dressing feminine, growing her hair out etc. Her parents shunned her and broke of all contact. At first they even forbade her siblings from contacting her too. (Her siblings are back in her life again now thankfully) I really do not understand her parents. She was literally born intersex. Her parents decided to play god and choose for her to be male and now they’re acting shocked and betrayed cause they themselves chose wrong? There’s some weird people in this world man.
    Also I didn’t know that 1.7% of people were intersex 😯 i thought it was more rare than that!

    • @MaynardsSpaceship
      @MaynardsSpaceship ปีที่แล้ว

      That's ri-goddamn-diculous. Her asshat parents were the ones that literally chose, like you said.

    • @Segen_Bell
      @Segen_Bell ปีที่แล้ว

      This is what I'm talking about!!! These are transphobes. They go against gender reaffirming surgeries of CONSENTING ADULTS!! But as soon as there's a baby who is BORN outside of the binary norm, the first thing they do is a gender correction surgery.
      Then they go around spreading shit like "save children", "children can't give consent to gender correction surgery", "you can't change your sex". Idiotic hypocrites.

    • @thereisauniverseinsideyourhand
      @thereisauniverseinsideyourhand ปีที่แล้ว +1

      s.n thank you for saying that 1.7% isn't that small. hundred millions of people in that percentage, it's equivalent to a population of an entire country. yk a lot of "ur either born a man or a woman" people like to disregard, neglect and shun the existence of intersex people and use them being a small percentage of the world as an excuse

    • @UlexiteTVStoneLexite
      @UlexiteTVStoneLexite ปีที่แล้ว +113

      Man that is absolutely terrible

    • @UlexiteTVStoneLexite
      @UlexiteTVStoneLexite ปีที่แล้ว

      @monicasherman8522 good job demonstrating how absolutely incompetent you are. All of the other conditions that she included were degrees of intersex and should be included.

  • @bigb6905
    @bigb6905 ปีที่แล้ว +2558

    My wife had a classmate in nursing school who was born this way. She made the decision to be "assigned" female while in college. Her decision was based primarily by the difficulties of the surgeries to finalize the assignment. (Not sure if I'm using correct terminology... just doing the best I can.) As with you, she didn't have major male attributes which also helped her decision to be female. She had a number of psychological issues due to her condition. She was quite thankful for having met my wife because of her willingness to listen, learn, and share her thoughts in a strictly medical mindset with no judgment or prejudices. They became very good friends and my wife stood by her as she made decisions and went through the surgeries.
    Thanks for sharing your life with us. 😊👍😊

    • @sgd.6830
      @sgd.6830 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      Your wife sounds like a guardian angel 💋

    • @leeannhoffman3556
      @leeannhoffman3556 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      You are a beautiful lady darlin, FKem with there judgements.
      And best wishes sweet heart on your journey. 😊

    • @BebeSu77
      @BebeSu77 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Ref the nurse story: I can't help feel it's a shame she felt the need to pick and alter herself, in that situation of not having a preference, though I understand why people could feel that way, especially in the past when people struggled more to find communities.

    • @gisellemagraibhaigh8342
      @gisellemagraibhaigh8342 ปีที่แล้ว

      But they can't turn a male into a female, only surgically alter a male to appear so. Having such a disorder of the reproductive system is thankfully rare and you and your wife's support may be life saving

    • @paganmoon8540
      @paganmoon8540 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      You are a gorgeous human being ❤

  • @jillyd2807
    @jillyd2807 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

    You are what you are! Boy, girl, intersex, bit of each? All is good. No one should be discriminated against

  • @carolmaplesden916
    @carolmaplesden916 ปีที่แล้ว +1101

    In my early 20s I had a neighborhood child that cut through my yard every day on the way home after awhile we became friends I began to offer her snacks and drinks she began to tell me about her life and family and one day she tried to explain to me about how she was born both male and female and told me she was more comfortable being identified as female but she didn't care if people thought she was a boy
    She was probably about 11
    I think of her often and wish I could meet her again

    • @andrewdelphia6614
      @andrewdelphia6614 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +87

      It's sad because with what's going on in politics ppl like this are gna continue to be made out to look like freaks and will continue to be downed and it's disgusting...let's keep trump out of office and get back to progress

    • @Serene80
      @Serene80 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Have you ever tried to look her up online?

    • @arjealis97
      @arjealis97 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      That’s a sweet memory I hope she’s doing ok wherever she is in the world

    • @carolmaplesden916
      @carolmaplesden916 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      @@Serene80 that was over 40 years ago and we was only on a first name basis I would have no idea how to look for her but I know we would be great friends

    • @Skaleezay
      @Skaleezay 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Was this in California by any chance?

  • @nenajimenez2266
    @nenajimenez2266 ปีที่แล้ว +2263

    Good for you. There is nothing to be ashamed about. There was a documentary years ago about how the medical system in the US would preform surgery on babies so they parents could say… “we had a son or we had a daughter”ect… it was pretty heart breaking.

    • @44LillPuffin
      @44LillPuffin ปีที่แล้ว +93

      I think this was the documentary that I seen that first made me aware of intersex people. It was so sad, it made me so angry. I can remember watching it with my mom and we both didn't know about what was going on before seeing it.

    • @4niasomnia573
      @4niasomnia573 ปีที่แล้ว +155

      One of the people in my (ex)church was a victim of this surgery. Didn’t know and reached late teens thinking they were born female until they didn’t start developing and becoming distressed and increasingly dysphoric, and the parents had to come clean that they had lopped off a part of this person to make them conform. Then the person caught crap from church leaders for expressing that “maybe they could have been a boy” instead of the girl they were literally assigned at birth through a mutilation. The amount of hate directed at the person combined with no good mental healthcare that weren’t church leaders led to several self-deletion attempts until the state stepped in and forced some real mental healthcare.
      That was around the time I went off to university. I hope the person was able to find some peace and get away from the frankly toxic environment like I was.
      (I use they/them pronouns because at the time I last knew them, they were still undecided on a “permanent” gender and had asked to be referred to with neutral pronouns.)

    • @scottw.3258
      @scottw.3258 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There's nothing to be ashamed about and there's equally nothing to broadcast. Who gives a fuck?

    • @Ok_Loren
      @Ok_Loren ปีที่แล้ว +23

      I’m pretty sure I’m remembering the same documentary. I grew up Catholic & had to go to religious schools, but I def didn’t fit there. I must’ve been young when I watched it, but I was extremely upset they kept that type of info from the child & that maybe they should’ve waited until the child was old enough to decide for themselves.
      Ik now that waiting on surgery & growing up intersex would prob be very difficult for the child, but it’s still a topic to be addressed.
      At the time tho, I related it to growing up knowing you’re adopted (like I did) vs your family knowing but keeping it a secret from you (my cousin). I had trouble with some family treating me worse bc I was adopted, but my parents celebrated it & other family members would say things like, “Idk what we’ve done without you.”
      So even as a little kid, I thought the mutilation was wrong. I just remember thinking that’s something I would want to know & how could they do that to their own child, yk?
      (sorry for such a long rant)

    • @calentinestrider8368
      @calentinestrider8368 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      i heard that the parents are not even told sometimes and the doctors just do the surgery anyway

  • @nathankeller7471
    @nathankeller7471 ปีที่แล้ว +2965

    Found out recently during some fertility testing that I'm actually xx-male. Really fascinating subject to delve into.

    • @coastergirl98
      @coastergirl98 ปีที่แล้ว +124

      That's super cool. As a non binary trans femme, I would love to get tested.

    • @nathankeller7471
      @nathankeller7471 ปีที่แล้ว +201

      @coastergirl98 I'm actually trans femme as well. I'm not fully out yet but both my mom and I have known since I was 8. Anyway genetic testing is great! It doesn't just test intersex but also analyzes cancer risk factors and other hereditary conditions. Some more advanced ones can also help establish a healthy diet by identifying weak genes associated with an inability to fully process and absorb nutrients from certain foods or genes associated with certain regions that have adapted for a specific diet.

    • @coastergirl98
      @coastergirl98 ปีที่แล้ว +249

      @@OofGP I get the feeling that you need mental help

    • @OofGP
      @OofGP ปีที่แล้ว +82

      @@coastergirl98 nah, you need help. Wtf is a "non binary trans femme"

    • @thesilliestsilly
      @thesilliestsilly ปีที่แล้ว

      @@OofGP google is free

  • @JohnNewton-oo9um
    @JohnNewton-oo9um 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    You are right, I've never heard of inter-sex before. I'm glad you're speaking out because no-one should have to hide in a closet! It takes a lot of courage to speak out so good on you!! ❤

  • @182452134
    @182452134 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1226

    My college teacher was intersex and she was the first intersex person I've ever met. She explained it very well since it was a new concept for most of us but everyone was very supportive and understanding. Life is complicated yet beautiful!

    • @jlhanlon1980
      @jlhanlon1980 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The issue though is that any other sex besides male or female, is what we call an anomaly or an aberration. These people shouldn't be ostracized, but we definitely shouldn't create entire new genders over genetic disorders. That would be like saying because some people are born with only one arm, we now have to create an entire new human species.

    • @missk1942
      @missk1942 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Well done to them, thats teaching better than any curriculum could

    • @Sharon-d4o1t
      @Sharon-d4o1t 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Intersex is not transgenderenter intersection is when you were born with both reproductive organs. And it's a natural freak of nature, meaning it's not normal. This man was born a man and still is a man. Who wears women's clothes.

    • @corlenwilschire
      @corlenwilschire 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      @@Julie-wx2gf It was college for Chryseik, not elementary school; like seriously who cares when you're in college. Even if you don't accept it, you know that you're there to learn new shit.

    • @ibigfire
      @ibigfire 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      @@Julie-wx2gf So weird when people like you just want folks to stay uneducated.

  • @Meggsie
    @Meggsie ปีที่แล้ว +6338

    It's also not considered to be a medical condition but a genetic variation like being born with blue eyes. This is because just being intersex doesn't inherently require medical intervention. Sometimes there are required surgeries, like if the urethra didn't develop correctly and they need to make sure you can pee, but such deformities can happen to people who are not intersex.
    You can be intersex and be happy and healthy as you are. You can later choose to have gender affirming care but it's not always necessary. If you have a baby who is intersex, choose only life-saving surgeries. Let your child decide what they want to do with their bodies, if they want to do anything. One of the sad consequences is that parents often choose the wrong gender or the child grows up and feels violated because they had to undergo such an invasive surgery without consent.

    • @1.C4NT.BR3ATHE
      @1.C4NT.BR3ATHE ปีที่แล้ว +150

      Well said. Thank you

    • @PyrielQuinn
      @PyrielQuinn ปีที่แล้ว

      Is everyone living in the 1900’s still cause these issues seem outdated. Most people don’t know they are intersex till they discover a teste has cancer or they can’t reproduce no period. We have all seen the troupe in every cop/medical drama

    • @josephzimmer6364
      @josephzimmer6364 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It is a medical condition it keeps you from reproducing in most cases

    • @vprez4925
      @vprez4925 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      This is exactly why we shouldn't make kids take puberty blockers.

    • @catastrophic_biz3608
      @catastrophic_biz3608 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      I understand what you’re trying to do here but it’s not a variation.. subjects usually have reproductive difficulties or can’t reproduce naturally.

  • @antumbraeclipse340
    @antumbraeclipse340 ปีที่แล้ว +10678

    Intersex baby over here! I fused with my twin in the womb and ended up with an internal testee and a half formed uterus. Since my teste was my "twin" i call him my tiny t since my boy name would have been tony 😅 i didnt find out until i was 17 after i was having some problems. And while treating one problem we found that little surprise

    • @GinGin12
      @GinGin12 ปีที่แล้ว

      You are what they also call a chimera... It's defined as a person who has cells from two different sources. Years ago a lady almost lost custody of her kids because she was a chimera and she never knew. Turns out that some of her organs were of the twin she absorbed. So her kid's DNA was showing like she was a relative but not the mother..

    • @Ima_meangirl
      @Ima_meangirl ปีที่แล้ว +37

      That’s not the same thing.

    • @fabulousporcupine3828
      @fabulousporcupine3828 ปีที่แล้ว +1725

      @@Ima_meangirlit’s not the same, but another kind of intersex body. There isn’t one kind of intersex body, it can depend on a lot of different things.

    • @heatheroriordan5800
      @heatheroriordan5800 ปีที่แล้ว +843

      ​​@@Ima_meangirlnot exactly the same as the person in the video, but the commenter is still intersex. There are over 30 different variations or specific combinations of intersex traits. Every intersex person is different. Sex characteristics(attributes) is a term that often refers to the internal and external traits of an individual's body. So an intersex person can have a mixture of attributes or charactersistics that are either external, internal, or both.

    • @EdMalachite
      @EdMalachite ปีที่แล้ว +306

      ​@@Ima_meangirlthey weren't saying it was, they're just fall under the same category of Intersex

  • @juliasa6014
    @juliasa6014 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

    In Brazil, one of our oldest and biggest influencers/youtubers, Karen Bachini, recently discovered she was intersex and made a giant video talking about it. It's great to see big people spreading this information, because, as she said in her video, many people live a long time without having any idea that they are intersex people.

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@juliasa6014 DSDs aren't separate sexes.

    • @juliasa6014
      @juliasa6014 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@blacktigerpaw1 Okay, so?

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@juliasa6014 You're promoting misinformation.

  • @sixtynineelephants
    @sixtynineelephants ปีที่แล้ว +1130

    Possibly the most attractive human I’ve ever seen.

    • @danimaccy1770
      @danimaccy1770 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      No literally, they’re perfection.

    • @sellbydate
      @sellbydate ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Really??

    • @marte1376
      @marte1376 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      And it's fascinating. Because she is both genders.

    • @marte1376
      @marte1376 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MetalCrowd-je2bv yeah I know

    • @Sarie977
      @Sarie977 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      HOW sad.@@MetalCrowd-je2bv

  • @marclink0
    @marclink0 ปีที่แล้ว +1815

    We need more people giving visibility to intersex people. More stories shared, more ways of explaining it. Then society will accept it and hopefully stop calling it a mere "statistical abnormality"

    • @TheStepmonkey
      @TheStepmonkey 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's not how intersex works. Even if someone is born with that condition they still have characteristics of either male or female gender, not both at the same time. For example, the guy from the video was born as a man and he probably would've looked like one if it wasn't for all the surgeries he did to feminize his face and body cause it's clear he's trans 🤷🏻‍♀️

    • @stephenmyers7076
      @stephenmyers7076 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Feeling don’t beat science. It is a rare abnormality 🙄. One day when they crack the human genome there will be no more intersex because they will be able to take corrective action and this “issue” will be a thing of the past 🤷‍♂️

    • @MsMtheory
      @MsMtheory 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      Well I mean it is. But doesn't mean we should call it that or refer to it that way. If you ever encounter an itersex person, treat them with love and humanity just like you should treat any fellow human being ❤

    • @ChristyAbbey
      @ChristyAbbey 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      I'm trans and a redhead, two things that are under 2%. It's fascinating (though also crap) what society accepts in their minority.

    • @xianxianeon44
      @xianxianeon44 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      2.8% de la población es intersexual, equivale a más de 200 Millones de vidas incomprendidas ​@@MsMtheory

  • @Arlene_witha_y
    @Arlene_witha_y ปีที่แล้ว +3917

    I see a lot of uninformed comments here. She is not choosing to be another gender. This is an actual medical thing. It’s a genetic mutation of the male chromosome in which ZERO testosterone is made therefore despite having an XY chromosome there are NO male features. They tend to be even prettier than XX females bc even we have some testosterone (hence those subtle masculine features, chin hair, nipple hair etc). Testosterone helps with energy and sex drive and estrogen helps prevent heart disease (men have it too but way less than women of course) and so this kind of person must need some kind of hormone replacement therapy just to maintain good health (heart, bones, etc). BUT it is a real medical phenomenon. It happens. Deal with it.

    • @THEDOORIZCLOSED
      @THEDOORIZCLOSED ปีที่แล้ว

      Its…a disorder. An anomaly that has gender-specific mutations in male or female. “She is not choosing to be another gender.” Yes…yes they are. This is a BIOLOGICAL male as stated and they choose to present themselves as female. Your comment was nonsensical. If someone is BORN MALE but presents as female, they CHOSE to present as a different gender. The comments arent uninformed, this person is just paving a path of confusion, clearly inspiring more confused ppl based on your comment

    • @amkali24
      @amkali24 ปีที่แล้ว

      But gay and trans want this so be an LGbt thing and it has nothing to do with that shit

    • @curb357
      @curb357 ปีที่แล้ว +222

      that's interesting. Seriously it is, but that is in no way an excuse for full grown/developed man to go "ok, that means I can throw on a wig, get breast implants, and/or cut off parts of their body and go "Ta Da! I'm a woman! Let me go catfish straight men now!"
      As far as the person in the video? They are not apart of the group that I'm talking about, the person in the video was "born" not "made"

    • @pedazodetorpedo
      @pedazodetorpedo ปีที่แล้ว +5

      We understand what intersex is but why has it been assimilated into the LGBTQIA+ gender Borg?

    • @Yulamah
      @Yulamah ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Qui k question...can you get pregnant or impregnate self?

  • @Najaa.a
    @Najaa.a 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    I was heavily confused when our teacher told us about "intersex". Now i understood! Bless your soul, you are very cool!

  • @elizabethfahrlander6224
    @elizabethfahrlander6224 ปีที่แล้ว +1125

    I remember being 5 or 6 years old (so around 1989/1990) and watching a news program, probably 60 Minutes or something, with my grandmother (who would have been 63 of 64), about intersex people. They highlighted how medical policy at the time was - and had been for decades - to intervene with gender assignment surgery on INFANTS in the case of “ambiguous” genitalia. If the parents objected, doctors could and did report them for “neglect” and do it anyway. These surgeries, predictably, resulted in doctors/parents sometimes guessing incorrectly as to what gender the child was and that child going on to experience severe gender dysphoria, without of course knowing why because they hadn’t been TOLD about their “condition” at birth. I remember quite clearly my grandmother and I having the exact same reaction: “OMG why don’t they just wait until the child is old enough to decide for themselves whether or what surgery to have?!” For emphasis: this was 1989, the “B” and the “T” had not yet been included in “LGBT,”and a literal 5 year old child and a woman born in 1926 instinctively came to the conclusion that children should be allowed to determine their own gender identity. This shouldn’t be so difficult.

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Experimenting on infants is wrong.
      Better wait until they're 3 or 4, then you can claim they're trans.

    • @galexiakat
      @galexiakat ปีที่แล้ว +58

      I’m glad you mentioned this cuz a had a similar occurrence happen when I was a baby. I was struggling heavily during my teenage years with body dysmorphia & trying to understand what was happening with my body. My mum would just brush everything under the carpet like it doesn’t exist.

    • @Steevee14
      @Steevee14 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ​@@galexiakat "Brush everything under the carpet"? The usual idiomatic expression is: "sweep everything under the rug".

    • @zeebest1004
      @zeebest1004 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      @@Steevee14So TF what? Shit changes. Living languages are ALIVE!!

    • @galexiakat
      @galexiakat ปีที่แล้ว +93

      @@Steevee14 English isn’t my first language either but funny that’s the only thing you cared enough to point out lol

  • @__.lucky.__
    @__.lucky.__ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1189

    They should teach about intersex in sex ed. If sex ed still exists in schools. It’s a shame that people don’t know what it means and that people who are intersex are not included in these conversations.

    • @Summercompanymegurger
      @Summercompanymegurger 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      It’s called health now not sex ed

    • @camila-aaliyah
      @camila-aaliyah 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      they do, at least where im from

    • @catpoke9557
      @catpoke9557 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      I was surprised to find that one of my friends didn't know what "Intersex" meant because I knew about it for as long as I can remember. My mom wasn't a good teacher at all but I'm glad at least she taught me that.

    • @ImaginaryAlchemist
      @ImaginaryAlchemist 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sex ed hasn't existed in schools in my area for a very long time, thanks to puritanical idiots. It really hasn't done us a lot of favors

    • @nessa-parmentier
      @nessa-parmentier 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      In France it is teached about ! I learned about the existence of intersex people in 11th grade ! Feels like nobody listened in that class though, even though it was one of the most interesting things i've seen in biology class
      (edit : i thought it was 8th grade but was misremembering.)

  • @azaleaslightsage1271
    @azaleaslightsage1271 ปีที่แล้ว +521

    Im lucky as I got to be good friends with two guys who are intersex, they used to get bullied alot for being 'too feminine' I helped them out once when a gang of boys were bashing them, we became good friends, nobody picked on them after that.
    They are the best two people ive ever met, big hearts lots of empathy just very good people. We now also run a charity together ❤️

    • @MsMtheory
      @MsMtheory 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Hmmm 2? I mean, not impossible I wanna say but with a 1.7 ish range per population that would be very rare! Glad you had that experience 😊

    • @rumpeltyltskyn
      @rumpeltyltskyn 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      @@MsMtheorymy guess is they actively met or hung out because of the shared trait.

    • @alphavasson5387
      @alphavasson5387 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      That's awesome! What's the charity?

    • @capriquarius9861
      @capriquarius9861 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Beautiful 🩵

    • @edvh88
      @edvh88 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Wonderful story!! Thank you for your continued good works and caring for others and working for justice.

  • @erics7004
    @erics7004 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    In Brazil there was a very famous csse of a male model that had natural feminine hormones and male genitals. That was in the 80s and 90s. She was considered the most beautiful woman of Brazil at that time. Probably the most famous intersex person yet.

  • @Itali171
    @Itali171 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1081

    Intersexuality is the term being used today as it was hermaphroditism when I was learning medicine. It’s not an easy life as people are cruel. I’m happy to see you taking the time and putting yourself out there to educate people. You’re brave ❤

    • @Jen-cx9sf
      @Jen-cx9sf 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      Yes that is the term I learned in my medical training, now it is intersexuality, which is likely an unusual term to many people, considering the terminology for anything other than heterosexual. I am grateful for Bloom’s reel on educating many on this term intersexuality, and what it exactly means in this era. Bloom is definitely brave, couldn’t agree more. ❤ This is not an easy subject to speak about or live with, and you are so right, people are cruel, just astounding how cruel some can be.

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      humans aren't hermaphrodites anyways.

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Jen-cx9sf DSDs are developmental disorders, not sexualities.

    • @JimBalter
      @JimBalter 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Blume has no female gonads and therefore is not a hermaphrodite ... that term is not synonymous with intersex.

    • @JimBalter
      @JimBalter 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@Jen-cx9sf Intersex is the I in LGBTQIA+ so it's not all that unusual. And intersex != hermaphrodite ... the latter means the presence of both male and female gonads.

  • @meganh1966
    @meganh1966 ปีที่แล้ว +461

    My husband’s family had an intersexed friend. Renee passed away a number of years ago but she was one of the sweetest people you’d ever meet. She was born in the 1940’s so a time where it was an incredibly hard to be born different but she never let it get her down. We miss her like crazy!

    • @1963heavyd
      @1963heavyd ปีที่แล้ว

      Get a grouping can’t change biology

    • @rra7490
      @rra7490 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@1963heavydbiology terms are words made up by humans, we have chosen to give certain things specific terms. Nature created some distinct features but other than it doesnt really matter.

    • @k8eago
      @k8eago ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Very sweet video. We did learn in school, but you do a better job of bringing the reality to home.

    • @michelleloveday6929
      @michelleloveday6929 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think you are very beautiful, regardless!

    • @shaunbang
      @shaunbang ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rra7490all words are made up by humans

  • @MaineCoonMama18
    @MaineCoonMama18 ปีที่แล้ว +812

    I used to know an intersex man. His parents chose to raise him as a girl but at some point he realized he identified more as a man. I often think about him when transphobes make stupid comments. Your video is such a great reminder that plenty of people don't fit neatly into one sex/ gender box.

    • @Canthus13
      @Canthus13 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Yeah.. It's been the norm for eternity to choose the gender that seems to be most correct and just raise the kid that way. I'm glad to see people like Blume putting themselves out there and educating people.

    • @gemmaprince295
      @gemmaprince295 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      But he isn't trans he is intersex that's totally different

    • @Canthus13
      @Canthus13 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @@gemmaprince295 You understand that many 'trans' folks are intersex, and even if they're not, it's still the same concept. If you're not trans, good for you. You don't get to decide for other people, and honestly.. Misgendering people should be a legal excuse to punch someone in the mouth. Sadly, though, I'll just have to misgender those who misgender my friends.

    • @nyx8938
      @nyx8938 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      ​@@gemmaprince295Well, while intersex and transgender identities are not the same, they are not entirely separate either. Intersex refers to a range of biological variations in sex characteristics, while transgender relates to gender identity. Both can involve biological and genetic components-intersex through visible sex characteristics and transgender through brain structure or hormonal variations that align more closely with their gender identity than their sex assigned at birth. The key point is that both intersex and transgender people defy traditional binary categories, and recognizing the complexity of sex and gender helps us understand and respect each person's individual journey.

    • @gemmaprince295
      @gemmaprince295 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@Canthus13 but you just contridicted your self so should they be able to punch you ! I don't care how anyone identifies. i still don't really get how they are trans though. As intersex people are essentially both sexes

  • @Jacob-kx8go
    @Jacob-kx8go หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    And yet even after watching this there will be people who say intersex doesn't exist. Those are likely the same people who say I (a trans man) shouldn't exist

  • @yolandacastillo-newsome2697
    @yolandacastillo-newsome2697 ปีที่แล้ว +216

    Can I just say, as a Christian, I am so grateful I found your video because I had NO idea this was a real thing... It would be dishonest of me to say that I e probably made some very poor assumptions of people born intersex without even realizing it. I never hear that word until your video... And I'm 43 years old.
    To clarify... I'm not a Christian who judges people. I'm a person who made assumptions about there only being 2 genders, and I happen to be a Christian. I treat everyone with respect and kindness.
    Thank you for educating me 💜

    • @annahart69
      @annahart69 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Your comment make me happy☺️

    • @BeeOnASunflower853
      @BeeOnASunflower853 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Me too! 💜

    • @TeChNoWC7
      @TeChNoWC7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Hope for humanity after all, love this

    • @Lemon_Force
      @Lemon_Force ปีที่แล้ว

      There's still only 2 genders the person in the video isn't some separate 3rd gender

    • @mikochild2
      @mikochild2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I believe that people used to say h*rmaphrodite. You may have heard of that term.

  • @endervalentine9588
    @endervalentine9588 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +223

    Intersex rights are a huge issue and should be talked about more. So many babies are given surgery to “fix” something that isn’t even dangerous to them, just to make them fit in better with one of the sex categories. This is legal in almost all countries. Bodily autonomy for all, and end the stigma against intersex people. Thank you for talking about your experience in this short.

    • @MrBenjaminsisko
      @MrBenjaminsisko 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I seriously question the morality of all elective surgeries especially this kind of

    • @zegrze
      @zegrze 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What stigma? Most people do not even know about these people. And with regards to this person most would assume female based on appearance and behaviour.

    • @endervalentine9588
      @endervalentine9588 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@zegrze Yes, lack of knowledge of the subject is part of the stigma. So much so that people feel the need to perform unnecessary surgery their infant’s genitals simply to make them seem more “normal.”

    • @OrangeSun55
      @OrangeSun55 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ı know a family friend who aborted their baby cause they would be born intersex, they decided that cause its so new and the kid would have problems fitting in or something…

    • @paulk8532
      @paulk8532 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Healthy babies are surgically mutilated to satisfy the parents desire. How is that giving the child a choice

  • @mooonblooom
    @mooonblooom 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1948

    people who argue about this and say "it's basic biology!" know nothing about biology

    • @cspace1234nz
      @cspace1234nz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      People who use tgat figure if 1.7% quoted in the video also know nothing about biology

    • @SingingSealRiana
      @SingingSealRiana 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Argued in what way? That No ITS Not a thing, that Sex IS binary cause that what there where taught in elementary school, that ITS very valid and Sex IS a spectrum so why do WE expect gender to BE binary? Like all those Points are compleatly different ways to argued about IT and all Show a different awareness of "Basic biology"

    • @RevuitNet
      @RevuitNet 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Stop chatting garbage…. There are 2 widely recognised genders and a bunch of nonsense self refered genders for all the weird people who don’t fit in within society to feel normal for once….
      They didn’t like you on the school yard and guess what…. They still don’t.

    • @roxannekirbie5798
      @roxannekirbie5798 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Biology identify a girl when they have V and a boy when they have P that’s it, it doesn’t matter if u r a mixed of both hormones! If u look like a girl then consider yourself as a girl. MY PERSONAL OPINION SO FONT GET OFFENDED 😁😁

    • @ukkomies100
      @ukkomies100 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      These are biological abnormalities. Nothing wrong with it but they just are. People withou biological abnormalities do not have biological abnormalities so it is reasonable to say from basic biology wether they are a biological male or female. Whats hard

  • @RobertFord-hx5gt
    @RobertFord-hx5gt 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks!

    • @blumekind_
      @blumekind_  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thank you so very much 💖💖💖

  • @Nakia11798
    @Nakia11798 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2196

    This needs to be common education.

    • @daviddeaves
      @daviddeaves 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It doesn't need to be. Just need bigots to recognise that the week of science classes in first year high school is the start of the field, not the totality. P.S. this is true of every single week in high school.

    • @timekabolden5309
      @timekabolden5309 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      It was for me. 😂

    • @ericnakahara4170
      @ericnakahara4170 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      it needs to be way more than 1.7% before it's a common issue

    • @JustaBubu
      @JustaBubu 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hahahahahahahsh

    • @nuxkamina
      @nuxkamina 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      It was, until recently Alberta Canada, and some USA states started removing and restricting the curriculum.

  • @andywomack3414
    @andywomack3414 ปีที่แล้ว +152

    I wish we lived in a society that more accepted people as they are. I am glad that we seem to be heading in that direction. Thank you for being the person you are.

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yet you couldn't accept yourselves for who you were.

    • @nyxie2877
      @nyxie2877 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@blacktigerpaw1What are you TALKING about

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@nyxie2877 You tell me, Enby Of Colour.

    • @nyxie2877
      @nyxie2877 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@blacktigerpaw1 I’m not the one who said it

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@nyxie2877 You need surgeries and hormones to achieve this nebulous "gender identity" based on sex stereotypes all so you can pretend you're not the person you were born.

  • @shea5542
    @shea5542 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1284

    I didn’t know intersex people were so common in the population. That’s really good to know! Thank you for explaining this

    • @stephenolan5539
      @stephenolan5539 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Next learn that intersex and binary are not the only two possibilities.

    • @Frank-sm9yl
      @Frank-sm9yl 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hermaphrodites are .008% of Americans.

    • @davegaskell7680
      @davegaskell7680 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +74

      They aren't nearly so common as stated in the video. The 1.7% figure she quotes is from one paper in the year 2000 which had a very broad definition of what was meant by "intersex". The widely accepted figure is 0.018%

    • @Frank-sm9yl
      @Frank-sm9yl 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@davegaskell7680 exactly. The actual number is.008 % of the population.

    • @stephenolan5539
      @stephenolan5539 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @davegaskell7680
      Which really doesn't matter because it is not the only exception. Just one easy to demonstrate exists.

  • @gelnails16
    @gelnails16 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    OM-gawd! You are pure GORGEOUS! 💞

  • @alithecrow_
    @alithecrow_ ปีที่แล้ว +483

    I’m always so shocked when people forget/don’t know that intersex people exist, ty for spreading awareness!!

    • @kitkat0768
      @kitkat0768 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I thought everyone knew. I've known about it since I was a young teenager. It's no choice. They are born naturally this way.

    • @MrJeffcoley1
      @MrJeffcoley1 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I’m shocked when this rare condition is seized upon by activists as a bizarre rationale to validate their lifestyle choices

    • @PoukiPouki
      @PoukiPouki ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Same here and I learnt about it like 15 years ago already, and we study it in biology it’s everywhere in nature !

    • @SuperFosterMom
      @SuperFosterMom ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@MrJeffcoley1being trans is not a “lifestyle” choice. It’s not a choice at all. We are all born knowing our own gender identity. Just like she has always presented as female - not androgynous , not male, despite the fact she has male chromosomes and genitals. Because gender is personal and not about sex organs

    • @MCheshire
      @MCheshire ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Some do not forgot, they just seem them as "exception" or "anomaly", and just invalid them

  • @Jeekozz
    @Jeekozz ปีที่แล้ว +405

    I was introduced to intersex from a Japanese TV drama in the early 2010s called IS: Otoko demo onna demo nai sei, which discussed struggles of intersex teens. As I watched people in the show struggled psychologically, socially and physically, I wondered why no one talks about it in rl. Thank you for sharing and educating more people on intersex and what it is like in rl.

    • @sakutibi1112
      @sakutibi1112 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Omg same!

    • @Pisaroto
      @Pisaroto ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Same here too!!

    • @tahrey
      @tahrey ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Janky mental translation suggests that as "a boy, but a girl, but neither really" or something like that?

    • @alexspies-pronouncedspeez
      @alexspies-pronouncedspeez ปีที่แล้ว

      YES ME TOO!!

    • @ellaine157
      @ellaine157 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks for the title of the movie I will watch that. There are also news in the Philippines like this, I remember one of my neighbors before has this kind of case she became my friend but as what was the rumors says she’s born with 2 kinds of sexuality which is male and female but if you saw her you could definitely see that she’s a girl she haven’t open up with me regarding it but the rumors spread like a wildfire. I was afraid to ask her about it cause I might go beyond her boundaries which will cause a fight between us (but then I forgot if I was able to ask her about it cause it’s been a decade since the last time I saw her) The rumors were spread exaggeratedly and me having this memory that she said that it is true and me be like okay 👍🏼 her actions are kinda manly manners to be honest 😅

  • @tehRealPRM420
    @tehRealPRM420 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2990

    I’m also intersex, I have two sets of DNA and was born with external male stuff and internal gal stuff. And it’s cause I have chimera from absorbing a twin.

    • @MimiNatt89
      @MimiNatt89 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +143

      So interesting, thank you for being so brave and sharing bc it actually does take lots of courage and so I applaud you👏🏻🧡ok&now the human being in me is going to be intrusive and ask,do u mind me asking if u identify as one or the other&may I also ask if u look outwardly one way or another..God Bless and please don't feel obligated to answer me🙏🏻

    • @tehRealPRM420
      @tehRealPRM420 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +101

      @@MimiNatt89 I identify as fem, I don’t like to be associated by my masculine traits, even if team Polypanbi says they give me an edge.

    • @nunyabizniz1983
      @nunyabizniz1983 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      That makes sense! Hope you’re good my lovely x

    • @MimiNatt89
      @MimiNatt89 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      @@tehRealPRM420 thank you so much for responding,you're so awesome, God Bless and have a wonderful day🙏🏻

    • @kaiookalanikanuha2613
      @kaiookalanikanuha2613 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

      You are a demigod in my culture

  • @AidanCaDrago
    @AidanCaDrago 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The fear of the discrimination itself is a reason to stand up. Babies shouldn't be destroyed at birth for being different 💛💜💛💜

  • @APunisherKnight
    @APunisherKnight 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +645

    My first girlfriend almost 2 decades ago was intersex. Was a lot harder to find info on it back then, for either of us but I'm glad there are people sharing info now about the subject

    • @paulsouth4794
      @paulsouth4794 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thats because the medical term is hermaphrodite.

    • @claudiagutierrez6336
      @claudiagutierrez6336 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      This is something I studied in the early 2000's
      There was information, but not as easy to find. There are actual studies on this subject and found it interesting as part of my gender studies degree.

    • @tylersteward8917
      @tylersteward8917 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      So your homosexual

    • @APunisherKnight
      @APunisherKnight 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @tylersteward8917 nea, 2 kids and a wife. But sometimes I dream of an alternate reality where I have more free time without kids and just get hang with the homies.

    • @APunisherKnight
      @APunisherKnight 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @claudiagutierrez6336 being in 8th grade in the early 2000s I didn't even know what to look for.
      Plus she dumped me after a few months cause dating a middle schooler was embarrassing for her. Did reconnect a little as adults, still super cool

  • @chandnityagi9156
    @chandnityagi9156 ปีที่แล้ว +383

    okay but like I CAN'T STOP LOOKING AT HER EYES THEY'RE SO BEAUTIFUL!!

    • @roemellobell
      @roemellobell ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you a man

    • @jadedavis822
      @jadedavis822 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      You mean his eyes don’t you 🤣

    • @leesvideopage
      @leesvideopage ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jadedavis822 I'm guessing you have no ability to understand what it's like to be one of the 1.7% of HUMANS born intersexed. But no, judge strangers. What bugs you is she's a hotter woman than you ever will be.

    • @kaya_parsomen_bicak
      @kaya_parsomen_bicak ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They look like contacts 🤔🤔

    • @llibressal
      @llibressal ปีที่แล้ว +12

      You're seeing the reflection of a ring light.

  • @jessisironicallysad5533
    @jessisironicallysad5533 ปีที่แล้ว +601

    Im intersex too! I have the same condition as you! I love seeing awareness being spread online, trying to explain all the time can become really exhausting. Keep up the good work, queen :)

    • @MrMultiHerbatnik
      @MrMultiHerbatnik ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Intersex ppl can have children?or not?

    • @jessisironicallysad5533
      @jessisironicallysad5533 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@MrMultiHerbatnik for my condition? no. not biological at least. i do plan on having children when i’m older, so i’ll have to use alternative methods like surrogacy or adoption

    • @MrMultiHerbatnik
      @MrMultiHerbatnik ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jessisironicallysad5533 thanks for answer.greetings

    • @086DEN
      @086DEN ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Fair dues girl ( or the best looking boy ever) 😉👏

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jessisironicallysad5533 You don't have any eggs to provide. CAIS individuals are completely sterile.

  • @aetherialisvari379
    @aetherialisvari379 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm so proud of you for making yourself and the topic of intersex more public!! More people need to understand that this is natural! ❤❤❤

  • @KlayExterior
    @KlayExterior ปีที่แล้ว +165

    For those who are saying that’s so rare it is but there’s one percent of the population is intersex which equals out to 80 million people who are intersex on this planet

    • @truth5371
      @truth5371 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      There's as much gingers than intersex and yet you don't see people denying the existence of gingers

    • @laurenscool1
      @laurenscool1 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      ​@@truth5371who denies the existence of intersex people?

    • @Glittergramma
      @Glittergramma ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Actually that’s not true. If the term intersex is to retain any meaning, the term should be restricted to those conditions in which chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex, or in which the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female. Applying this more precise definition, the true prevalence of intersex is seen to be about 0.018%, almost 100 times lower than Fausto-Sterling s estimate of 1.7%.

    • @Kamila-eb9pz
      @Kamila-eb9pz ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Crazy how people believe anything without doing some research

    • @truth5371
      @truth5371 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Glittergramma intersex includes malformation of the genitalias so her percentage is quite correct yes if we only refer to chromosomes the percentage is lower but the person clearly talks about intersex of the common definition

  • @alifetime360
    @alifetime360 ปีที่แล้ว +285

    One of my aunts is intersex. She didn't understand that she was "different" re: society until she went to nursing school. She was raised as a female; nobody explained things to her. (They were raised in a very religious household, so...). Thank you for making this video! So many people stand to be educated by this one video! ❤️💖❤️

    • @strawberryfox6906
      @strawberryfox6906 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh that cool

    • @glenncordova4027
      @glenncordova4027 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      That is rough to find out. I hope she didn't feel betrayed and lied to her whole life.

    • @alifetime360
      @alifetime360 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @glenncordova4027 She's never admitted that to me, but her face says so, in my opinion. I know I would've felt betrayed. I try not to talk to her about it because she doesn't like to discuss it further than what I've already mentioned. My heart breaks for her & others who are in similar situations. I've always believed that people fear what they don't understand (for the most part). This channel is sure to bring that much needed education/exposure re: intersex.

    • @tonycook7679
      @tonycook7679 ปีที่แล้ว

      Religious upbringings are the cause of so many blighted lives. The ignorance of the religious comes with the territory. Only the ignorant can believe in gods, which is why all those who come to realise that they were brought up in ignorance but are too intelligent to remain there have to leave. The Abrahamic religions are truly a pox on humanity.

  • @andreejagger5093
    @andreejagger5093 ปีที่แล้ว +455

    I was vaguely aware of intersex, but it was never properly explained to me. Thanks for explaining

    • @anthonyleland2362
      @anthonyleland2362 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Agreed 👍

    • @chantreachea1467
      @chantreachea1467 ปีที่แล้ว

      I always thought intersex is the type of people that have both male& female sex organs at the same time according to myths 😮

    • @ChaoticAngelKitten
      @ChaoticAngelKitten ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Want to know something super cool! There are XY women who were born with uteruses who were able to give birth! I thought that was really interesting… :3

    • @daoistsaintmasterofthenasc6220
      @daoistsaintmasterofthenasc6220 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@ChaoticAngelKittennow that actually is .. thanks

    • @sunnyv7745
      @sunnyv7745 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ChaoticAngelKitten It most defintely means they did not develop any male reproductive organs and if they did it didn't hinder their ability to give birth. So yes very interesting indeed.

  • @AndreaCecilie95
    @AndreaCecilie95 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Every time I see content from you, it makes me so happy! You are spreading such important information, plus you are gorgeous and really funny. Never stop 💕

  • @nia1414
    @nia1414 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    As a genetics major i can back this up with science and well, precisely, genetics.
    There are three genetic conditions that can lead to intersex individuals.
    1. Turner's Syndrome, 45 X, where the child is a female but lacks another X chromosome. Turner females do not ovulate, and are hence infertile. They also do not have fully develop primary sexual organs like ovary as well as secondary sexual characters like breast. External genetilia resembles a vagina.
    2. Klinefelter's Syndrome, 47 XXY, here the child is supposedly a male but has an extra X chromosome which results in the development of both ovaries and testes, might also result in the development of breast. External genetilia may resemble a vagine with a protruding and enlarged clitoris that resembles a penis.
    3. Swyer Syndrome, 46XY, here there is no extra or less chromosome, but the Y chromosome, responsible for male attributes might be incomplete or recessive, meaning the X chromosome in these males is in control, therefore they have inactive testes, or in some cases they might not be fully developed. External genetilia resembles a penis but there is no growth. This condition also affetcs the SRY gene which is again responsible for providing male attributes.
    In all these 3 conditions, there's also sexual hormonal imbalance as the gonads (ovary and testes) are getting affected which are responsible for producing these sexual hormones like oestrogen and testosterone.
    Hope that helped. :)

    • @synchronium24
      @synchronium24 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Good start. Jacobs Syndrome (47 XYY) is another.

    • @ndawn90
      @ndawn90 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      There are way more than just 3.
      XXX is another, androgen insensitivity (like in the video), and others.

    • @bluefrostryy
      @bluefrostryy ปีที่แล้ว

      or PMDS

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ndawn90 And none of them are separate sexes, fivehead.

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Klinefelter Syndrome does not lead to development of a vagina. They still develop male genitalia.
      Swyer Syndrome individuals don't have testicles, either. You're confusing them with streak gonads.
      Go back to your advanced biology textbooks.
      From Medline Plus:
      "Individuals with Klinefelter syndrome typically have small testes that produce a reduced amount of testosterone (primary testicular insufficiency). Testosterone is the hormone that directs male sexual development before birth and during puberty. A small percentage of affected individuals are born with undescended testes (cryptorchidism). Without treatment, the shortage of testosterone can lead to delayed or incomplete puberty, breast enlargement (gynecomastia), decreased muscle mass, decreased bone density, a reduced amount of facial and body hair, and fatigue. Klinefelter syndrome can make it difficult for people with this condition to have biological children (a condition called infertility), but up to half of people with Klinefelter syndrome may be able to have children using assisted reproductive technologies..
      The other physical changes associated with Klinefelter syndrome are usually subtle. Most commonly, affected individuals are taller than average and 2 to 3 inches taller than would be expected for their family. Other features can include curved pinky fingers (fifth finger clinodactyly), flat feet (pes planus), and, less commonly, abnormal fusion of certain bones in the forearm (radioulnar synostosis).
      Children with Klinefelter syndrome may have low muscle tone (hypotonia), difficulty coordinating movements, and mild delays of certain developmental skills, such as rolling over or walking. Affected children have an increased risk of mild delays in speech and language development. People with Klinefelter syndrome tend to have better receptive language skills (the ability to understand speech) than expressive language skills (vocabulary and the production of speech) and may have difficulty communicating and expressing themselves. Affected individuals have an increased risk for learning disabilities, most commonly problems with reading (dyslexia) and written expression. People with Klinefelter syndrome very rarely have intellectual disabilities."
      Note: no vaginal development.

  • @Nobody17706
    @Nobody17706 ปีที่แล้ว +1797

    Just love how she started the video😂 ‘I’m a male, but I don’t have a penis” Getting straight to the point

    • @whonikkikki
      @whonikkikki ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Completely missed the point.

    • @Emmyhere88
      @Emmyhere88 ปีที่แล้ว

      And people here are still arguing that sexes other than male and female are a thing based on this video. He even admits he is male but didn't develop correctly. He is male with a medical condition that caused him to present as female.

    • @adamabele785
      @adamabele785 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      A penis is not the only thing that defines what is a male. That is the point.

    • @seanmcneill4499
      @seanmcneill4499 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      No penis and no womb?

    • @Nobody17706
      @Nobody17706 ปีที่แล้ว

      Man, woman, Trans. That’s it, let’s stop confusing people. It’s fine to be trans (or a man stuck in a woman’s body or vice versa), but we really needed to control the 100 genders you’re implementing in your youth

  • @calm713
    @calm713 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +347

    This person seems like a lovely individual, and pretty too.

    • @Sir__Gambit
      @Sir__Gambit 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Clearly doesn't understand the science of chromosomes though.. "Be who you want to be, but accept who you are first"

    • @calm713
      @calm713 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Sir__Gambit Gender isn't determined by sex organs or sex chromosomes, as proven by intersex people, and as the multiple studies confirm, including the MRIs that show as much, GENDER is entirely determined by the brain.

    • @rickberry4477
      @rickberry4477 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Go for it. 😂🎉

    • @dr.chalmers7923
      @dr.chalmers7923 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      @@Sir__Gambitat no point did they say be “who you want to be”
      They are technically male, but has ostrogen and no testosterone so they act and feel more like a she, even though “she” also has balls and a vagina
      It’s weird but it’s real. This stuff is good to know because if im dating different people, im attracted to a female, not intersex, no offense.

    • @zinniaq3020
      @zinniaq3020 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      @@dr.chalmers7923why do you have to put “she” in inverted comments?

  • @NekoPanda122
    @NekoPanda122 ปีที่แล้ว +250

    In my country, there were a case of 2 brothers who were assigned female at birth because they were intersex (they had this specific condition I forgot the name of where they were actually male, but their genitals weren't properly developed or sth, so the nurse thought they were girls), they lived 27 and 30 years as girls, but they never developed breast, their voice got deeper, they feel so uncomfortable, the younger brother was in military and he's very uncomfortable living in the women's barrack, wearing the mandatory skirt uniform, etc, that he asked to leave the military. When his commander (or general? I don't remember his title) heard, he asked what's wrong, so he explained how he felt uncomfortable with, essentially, being a woman. The commander then told him to go to a doctor, that is when he finally found out he's actually a guy! He got gender afirming surgery and "came out" as a guy, few weeks later his older brother followed. All this, because 30 years ago people didn't know intersex people existed (esp bc they were born in a smaller town where higher education is hard to obtain)

    • @stormyweather2807
      @stormyweather2807 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      That was common back in the day, the parents and Dr chose the sex. I've read that in followup studies, about 60% of the time they chose wrong. That is tragic.

    • @emberd-l795
      @emberd-l795 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I look forward to the day when no one feels pressured to live as the gender that someone else assigned to them. Intersex people go through this a lot. It's fairly common that someone will just decide what gender they want their intersex child to be, and then later that child realises that their parent or doctor decided wrong. Obviously this usually the case with trans people as well. No one should have to go through this. We should all have the right to live in the way that feels right to us without fear of rejection and discrimination.

    • @NekoPanda122
      @NekoPanda122 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @stormyweather2807 I would imagine so! It's really sad, especially thinking about how these people might live their whole life feeling like they're weird or an outcast bc of this. The sibling in my story only got the chance for gender affirming surgery bc the younger brother is in military, I imagine if he wasn't then they'll just continue on living as girls but miserable

    • @NekoPanda122
      @NekoPanda122 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @emberd-l795 totally! I really hope we'll get to that point one day, but if we want to look at the bright side, we're already doing a lot better than like, 30 years ago, obviously we still have a long way to go, but this is hopefully a step in the right direction

    • @jefferyschic
      @jefferyschic ปีที่แล้ว

      I've been on a mission to educate that 2% of the US are hermaphrodite/intersex

  • @extraincomesuz
    @extraincomesuz ปีที่แล้ว +99

    Now I understand the he/she pronoun problem.🤔 As an English teacher its frustrating trying to teach verbs without using pronouns to show English structure. But living in Malaysia, I love the Malay language because it only uses "dia" which can be he or she. So maybe I can use Dia to talk about you? Dia is very beautiful for sharing dia's story.❤

    • @TheStepmonkey
      @TheStepmonkey 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That's not how intersex works. Even if someone is born with that condition they still have characteristics of either male or female gender, not both at the same time. For example, the guy from the video was born as a man and he probably would've looked like one if it wasn't for all the surgeries he did to feminize his face and body cause it's clear he's trans 🤷🏻‍♀️

    • @ravennightmare6070
      @ravennightmare6070 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      In my native language it's even worse because it's not just he/she/them. It's also in the verbs! We have different form of every verb depending on if we talk about him, her or in plural. It's a pain, really.
      I like your idea tho. 👍

    • @alanmckinnon6791
      @alanmckinnon6791 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      We definitely need gender-neutral pronouns in English - not the neuter "it" but indicating a person without regard to he or she

    • @TheBlueClover2012
      @TheBlueClover2012 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      ​@alanmckinnon6791 we use "they" for people who are non-binary. Or if we don't know someone's gender and are trying to be respectful.

    • @alanmckinnon6791
      @alanmckinnon6791 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@TheBlueClover2012 No not that, I'm not talking about repurposing a plural pronoun (they) that sometimes has a singular usage if you squint real hard but is still grammatically clunky. For the longest time I have wished there was a truly neutral pronoun in our grammar for the ever-increasing number of cases where it refers to a person or where a person should be without regard to their gender. Like the OP's "dia", and "they" does not cut it, that is retrofitting something else into the language (for lack of a better solution perhaps)

  • @zhabo3963
    @zhabo3963 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1603

    Why nobody talks about intersex people at school? They dont mention them in school books, but if you open any anatomy textbook for college (e.g. netter) you will find them. Intersex knowlege should NOT be university knowledge, it should be common knowledge.

    • @jamie9063
      @jamie9063 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +101

      because a lot of people perform surgery on intersex babies, and it'd cause a lot of people to realise theyve been mutilated without consent

    • @Keeby.
      @Keeby. 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Because conservatives dont want anything related to lgbtq people to be discussed

    • @hdr-000
      @hdr-000 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      ​@@jamie9063that's horrible.

    • @humanbean7884
      @humanbean7884 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +88

      ​@@jamie9063 it's ironic that most supporters of banning gender affirming care for transgender people, will likely also support the practice of forced surgery on intersex babies.
      It's about conforming to the norm for them, not a concern for damage surgery may cause.

    • @jamie9063
      @jamie9063 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      @@humanbean7884 exactly this!!!

  • @willmorrison5950
    @willmorrison5950 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi Blume! Keeping telling your story because it is so important!! You are perfect just as you are! 😊💜

  • @polygonalmasonary
    @polygonalmasonary ปีที่แล้ว +86

    I have nothing but love and respect for you making this video in order to educate people who otherwise should have been educated by either their parents or their schools. My great aunt was born an Hermaphrodite (intersex) in 1896, yes 1896. So I personally knew about intersex people from a young age. They decided to raise my auntie as a girl, even though she did have a very small, but fully functioning penis, she also had a vagina as well, but no testicles. If born twenty years ago I have absolutely no doubt she would have chosen to be male in adulthood. She had a man’s broad shoulders, facial hair, a low male voice and very large feet. She lived well into her 90’s. She was one of three sisters, my Grandma was one of them, born in 1898!! Ignorance breeds intolerance and hate, knowing about a subject can give people a new perspective and also some love and empathy 👍🇬🇧🌈♥️♥️

    • @ren5397
      @ren5397 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      One of my teachers was intersex. She was born in rural Australia to a very Christian family and because she had penis (that ended up being non-functioning) they had her vulva sewn up as a baby and made her take male hormones so they could raise her as a boy. She knew she felt more female from a very young age and once she turned 18 began living as one, but because she’d been sewn up she had all kinds of medical issues. She started menstruating shortly after stopping the hormones and the doctors had to open up a vein in her leg for the blood to come out of because it couldn’t come out naturally, though I think that was eventually rectified with surgery. She was an incredible woman and lived an incredible life.

    • @nomadMik
      @nomadMik 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Nothing but respect for your great aunt and her choices, and you might be right about 20 years ago. But I would hope that people born that way today could also choose to ditch the whole binary gender thing, which, after all, is just a choice about how to be discriminated against by narrow-minded people. I have a tonne of admiration for my friend's parents, who, even over 40 years ago, let their intersex child decide for themself what gender to identify with. My friend's identity has changed in the time I've known them, and while I stuff up and use the wrong pronoun sometimes (as I do for other people, and also with most people's names), that's just fine.

  • @marymurray4566
    @marymurray4566 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    You’re biologically BEAUTIFUL ❤

  • @blackstonehamilton
    @blackstonehamilton 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Blume, you’re one of my heroes right now. Thanks for your channel.

  • @butterbeanqueen8148
    @butterbeanqueen8148 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    You are doing such a wonderful thing by creating awareness about this. And you explain a rather complex situation in a very sensible, concise way that anyone can understand. You should be very proud of yourself. ❤❤❤

    • @tinas977
      @tinas977 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes

    • @TheStepmonkey
      @TheStepmonkey 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's not how intersex works. Even if someone is born with that condition they still have characteristics of either male or female gender, not both at the same time. For example, the guy from the video was born as a man and he probably would've looked like one if it wasn't for all the surgeries he did to feminize his face and body cause it's clear he's trans 🤷🏻‍♀️

  • @ianjones7266
    @ianjones7266 ปีที่แล้ว +223

    62 years old... I'm still learning new things. Thanks Bloom, all the best.

    • @thomascrowe3407
      @thomascrowe3407 ปีที่แล้ว

      How when one gets old? Do you grow a beard, and lose the skirt? The mind a hard drive,!the body, it can all be reprogrammed.

    • @ianjones7266
      @ianjones7266 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thomascrowe3407 er.... too deep for me.

    • @eaglesmann024
      @eaglesmann024 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Aww she got you lol

    • @ianjones7266
      @ianjones7266 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@eaglesmann024 hi cryptic man.... what you on about?

    • @olivrrrr9976
      @olivrrrr9976 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      people like you make me feel a lot safer as a trans person. i wish more people were willing to educate themselves as you are

  • @eyeticklemymind
    @eyeticklemymind ปีที่แล้ว +75

    There needs to be awareness... people are going crazy😢 I'm a large boned tall female and never in my whole life have I felt fear of experiencing a hate crime but in the past few years... people are struggling to understand differences and some are just sadistically hate-filled. Thank you for sharing your loveliness!

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Poor you. Want to share spaces with males?

    • @eyeticklemymind
      @eyeticklemymind ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Your comment has nothing to do with creating awareness, unfortunately there are people that will exploit their rights and exhibit predatory behaviors but that shouldn't ruin an effort to understand differences in this world. Why do you feel the need to be so condescending? I'm not poor, just fed up with hate-filled people. Poor you?

    • @JayzVeez
      @JayzVeez ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Sadly the world is full of hate 😢 I don't know if its due to social media making it more obvious or if the amity of hate has gotten worse. Sadly social media provides a platform for miserable hate-filled people to spread their hate whenever and wherever they can.

    • @ericaholloway1751
      @ericaholloway1751 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@blacktigerpaw1”poor you” actually yes, if you are being bullied because of how you look then, absolutely, and it should be addressed. Way to prove her point about how hateful everyone is becoming.

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ericaholloway1751 Tall women aren't males.
      How do you feel about trans activists implying you, as a black woman, aren't a woman because you look too "manly"?

  • @Godhelpus62
    @Godhelpus62 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for making this video! You are educating so many people - including me. 1.7% is about 136 million folks! 2% of the population have green eyes; between 1 & 2% have red hair. I thought intersex was extremely rare. 136 million is not extremely rare. I’m a 62 year old white progressive Christian woman. I was raised to believe there is only male & female. Now we know that’s not true. I think God would want us to love our neighbors unconditionally and want them to live their lives happily however they choose. God loves you just the way you are. 💕🙏🏻

  • @jstamps9578
    @jstamps9578 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    The information you are sharing here about almost 2% of human beings is important and you do it so clearly and friendly.

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      It's 0.08%, bud. Not 2%.

    • @BossBast1
      @BossBast1 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yeah, cherry picking highest estimate is quite misleading

    • @Fearsia
      @Fearsia ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Unfortunately a lot of people throw it out and say "it's such a small number of the population it doesn't matter, so no, there's only 2 sexes" when intersex is a literal 3rd sex with many, many combinations and ways of being such.

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Fearsia Intersex is NOT a third sex and no actual scientific paper backs your claim. All DSDs are sex based.
      XO - female
      Swyer XY - female, no SRY
      XXY - Klinefelter, male
      XYY - Jacobs Syndrome, male
      De la Chapelle - No AMH, Wolffian development, male
      Ovotestes - does NOT produce both functional sets of gametes or genitalia, generally male
      Evolution makes sure there is ONLY two sexes, purely because of the cost of reproduction. You r.etards take Karyotypes as separate sexes despite being told repeatedly that isn't true.

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Fearsia DSDs are not third sexes. No scientific literature supports this. All of them are sex based.

  • @x.andrea.x3387
    @x.andrea.x3387 ปีที่แล้ว +263

    I’m 14 and have heard of this but nobody has every explained it to me… keep doing what you doing! We need this normalized!

    • @peopleofearth6250
      @peopleofearth6250 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Here's what's going on biologically. Basically a small percentage of the male population has a body which simply doesn't respond to testosterone at all. This is why they never develop male genitalia and end up looking even more feminine than most women. The "vagina" they develop isn't really functional either. I hope that helps 😊

    • @letsRegulateSociopaths
      @letsRegulateSociopaths ปีที่แล้ว

      yeah, some idiots don't explain a whole lot of things to kids these days... shows how dumb the idiots are, not the kids.

    • @cw5451
      @cw5451 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Don’t forget that Google can answer a lot, if not all, of your questions.

    • @eulabell4871
      @eulabell4871 ปีที่แล้ว

      It isn't normal. We knew about this before the internet!😂 (We watched the movie "Sleep Away Camp!") Something that happened abnormally before her birth isn't the natural order of things. BUT she should be treated with the same respect as anyone else. She must understand that the only reason that attention is drawn to her is because she is stating she is a male. And that is one of the reasons she is confusing people. Usually an intersexual make a decision on a specific sex based on the dominant presence of one of the two characteristics. It's not the same as a gay or lesbian who says they are trapped in the wrong body. The intersex person already expresses their desire to be one sex or another. Medically, if her body produces eggs she is a female regardless of the outward appearance. They're not going to produce eggs and sperm cells. I think that would be deadly. 😒

    • @maxmusterman481
      @maxmusterman481 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Who is we,Don't you mean you need it normalised?

  • @elvensith001
    @elvensith001 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +465

    I can't believe how people are saying "there's only two sexes but obviously there's exceptions"
    If there's exceptions then there aren't two sexes, some are just less common.
    And they're more common than you think, because people pretend they don't exist, by saying "there are only two sexes."
    Even we say we need people like Blume, we mean we value her asserting and giving examples of more than two sexes.
    "But it's a mutation!" Or "but they look normal" every trait is considered a mutation, and it IS normal, that's the POINT.
    This is important for discussions of GENDER because for every red haired child there's a person whose body isn't strictly male or female, whise gender you CAN'T determine based on their sex. It is NORMAL to not be able to determine someone's gender based on their sex.

    • @diaryofamadmixedgirl1018
      @diaryofamadmixedgirl1018 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'd say there's 5, maybe 6 if you include the neo genital some surgeons offer. M, F, I, MTF, FTM

    • @marinaserba7032
      @marinaserba7032 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Even if it’s a mix of both, it’s not normal. Because yes they are human beings and deserve to be loved like anyone else. But the fact that this people mostly can’t even have kids is showing that it’s not wanted by nature. In nature we have normally only two sexes. There are people who are born in one body having to share it for the rest of their life. But is this normal?
      If everybody would have 300 different sexes and would be genderfluid and so on (which has nothing more to do with a gen mutation at that point) the human race would just die.

    • @rosegoldenglow
      @rosegoldenglow 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

      ⁠@@marinaserba7032the ability of humans being able to talk is also not natural, it’s a mutation that no one can explain. If you considered talking normal, then this is normal too.

    • @levinotjeans
      @levinotjeans 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Being interesex is natural and about as common as red hair. Saying intersex people are people and are doing no harm doesn't require the endorsement of nature. Plus evolution often selects for aging and death of the individual, it cares about populations only. Having a portion of the population that cannot reproduce could have evolutionary and societal benefits as that leaves more people to adopt children, take care of elderly, or reduce resource competition. But it doesn't matter, intersex people exist and have always existed and shouldn't be made to feel a freakshow @@marinaserba7032

    • @arcadiaberger9204
      @arcadiaberger9204 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@marinaserba7032 You talk about gender nonconforming people with such trembling fear. Why is that?
      You are LITERALLY intersexphobic.

  • @danielkristianson208
    @danielkristianson208 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Good for you, Blume !! You go, gurl ! ❤

  • @k2a2l2
    @k2a2l2 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    1.7% is a LOT of people when you put it into numbers

    • @nomadikmind3979
      @nomadikmind3979 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      and probably wrong

    • @Persianprincess_1710
      @Persianprincess_1710 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@nomadikmind3979it’s not plus quite a few people live their lives jut knowing they’re intersex

  • @Ferdosx
    @Ferdosx ปีที่แล้ว +1094

    Thank you for speaking up. I wrote a paper about intersex for my a levels in gemang and I was shocked that so many people (including most of my biology teachers) didn’t know about it. They thought I mean trans people. I think it’s so important to understand that gender/ sex (don’t know which one is the right term in English) is a spectrum.
    Edit: pls be polite and show some manners. It’s not that hard! We can discuss this topic respectfully.

    • @julieme7927
      @julieme7927 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      It's not a spectrum. Male and Female and the intersex people who are still biologically one or the other

    • @pappanalab
      @pappanalab ปีที่แล้ว +166

      @@julieme7927 How does fitting some parts of both physical criteria make you just one? Make it make sense.

    • @internetstranger5112
      @internetstranger5112 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      In English, queer and gender theorists generally accept
      Sex: horomones/ genitalia
      Gender: where someone falls socially, emotionally, and phsycologicly
      Sorry for any spelling mistakes

    • @urmotha976
      @urmotha976 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      ⁠@@internetstranger5112”gender theorists” is perhaps the most useless crap i have ever heard💀💀

    • @urmotha976
      @urmotha976 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      it’s not a spectrum. intersex doesn’t substantiate that at all… it’s literally having parts of BOTH genders or sexes. but there is still either male or female. i’d be very worried that you wrote a paper on that. do u understand how dna works…?

  • @FlukasMcDoogle
    @FlukasMcDoogle ปีที่แล้ว +569

    As a nurse, I'm glad you made this video. Awareness is a good thing. If you experience prejudice coming from anyone in the medical field, please tell them a nurse on TH-cam said F off. 😊 You be you, and if that's who or how you were born, physically, embrace that. If you were born one gender and feel another, or nonbinary, embrace that. Your soul is who you are. Not your body parts. Gay lesbian, queer, hetero, cis, whatever. Be your true self. Life is too short and precious and fragile to have others dictate it for you. ❤

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      You're a nurse and you don't know how human development works? Someone was asleep in class.
      DSDs relate to sex, not gender. Karyotype variations are not variations of sex.
      "Your body parts don't define you" - tell that to the transman who died on the operating room table because she was treated like a male.

    • @roberto.peterson9917
      @roberto.peterson9917 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      informational in good way done in an intelligent way with out theatrics

    • @michaelshultz2540
      @michaelshultz2540 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @blacktigerpaw1 kinda out of left fild there aren't we. I don't think what your saying is relevant to the nice voice of affirmation and kind support for the LGBTQIA+ community that this nurse was expressing. And you opened up with a Karren attack out of left ballpark. Nice going there.

    • @michaelshultz2540
      @michaelshultz2540 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @n8ram413 Go away christofascist ! There are more than just your christofascist definition of a soul. And apparently you missed the part of your fairy tale book about casting the first stone. How about you just accepting that others have their own truth and you MYOB !

    • @kayleighllyn8253
      @kayleighllyn8253 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I love you for your comment!!❤ thanks!! The world needs nore open minded people like you😘😘

  • @BruceCarroll
    @BruceCarroll หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love your mission, Bloom! All the best to you. I'll never understand why so many people get hung up over attributes with which we were born and had no control over (Skin color, biological sex, number of limbs, that sort of thing) and don't seem to care about the content of the person's character.

  • @tyrantfox7801
    @tyrantfox7801 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1772

    "What's your sex"
    "Default"

    • @BeefyLemon223
      @BeefyLemon223 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      wouldnt default be female then? bc before the penis starts growing, its a vagina. BUT if you wanna go even further, our defaults are assholes 😂😂😂 we start as assholes 😂😂😂

    • @BeefyLemon223
      @BeefyLemon223 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      your making me think 😂😂😂

    • @myriamrashida7501
      @myriamrashida7501 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😂😂😂

    • @arisgrandeurie3606
      @arisgrandeurie3606 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Why not PREFER NOT SAY

    • @julianaandradebr
      @julianaandradebr 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Undefined, because medicine can not define it. It biological dude. No relation with sexuality.

  • @gunner678
    @gunner678 ปีที่แล้ว +169

    It just goes to show that we are a complex species and not so simple to shove into a box. We are all people who deserve respect!

    • @1961-v9k
      @1961-v9k ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The average, nice person already knows that 😅

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      DSD are not separate sexes. You people are being deliberately ignorant.

    • @exhumus
      @exhumus ปีที่แล้ว +8

      ​@@blacktigerpaw1So what is this creator's sex? They have XY chromosomes but they're phenotypically female. What bathroom should they be using in your opinion?
      Sex is a word we made up to explain what we observe in nature. Intersex people don't fit neatly into either of two rigidity defined boxes. Sex is a useful concept most of the time, but when exceptions occur do we force them to conform in one of two ways or should we just accept them as human beings and allow them to define themselves?

    • @yureicomplicake8303
      @yureicomplicake8303 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is a genetic abnormality- its awesome to raise awareness, because this is a person who truly has a struggle.. that fake trans people are taking away from..

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@exhumus all DSDs are sex based. They are not a third sex.
      From Witchel 2018:
      EMBRYOLOGY
      Sexually dimorphic development of the reproductive tracts is influenced by multiple factors. Normal sex development is dependent on the synergistic orchestration of activating and repressing factors interacting in a precise spatio-temporal pattern [6]. Sex determination is governed by the sex chromosomes. The Sex Determining Region on the Y chromosome (SRY) gene located on the short arm of the Y chromosome is the binary switch that initiates the male developmental program [7]. The pivotal experiments performed by Dr. Alfred Jost established the relevance of testosterone for male sexual differentiation [8].
      The urogenital ridges develop by 4-6 weeks of gestation as outgrowths of the coelomic epithelium. Subsequently, the urogenital ridges develop into the kidneys, adrenal cortices, gonads, and reproductive tracts. SRY functions as a transcription factor to trigger the developmental trajectory that directs differentiation of the bipotential gonad into a testis during the 6th week of human gestation. SRY induces SOX9 expression; SOX9 activates and maintains the male gonadal differentiation pathway. With differentiation of the Sertoli cells, the developing testis becomes organized into two compartments. One compartment consists of the testis cords that are aggregates of the germ cells surrounded by Sertoli cells and encased by the peritubular myoid cells. The other compartment is the testis interstitium, which contains the Leydig cells and testis vasculature.
      Initially, both Wolffian and Müllerian ducts develop. The Wolffian ducts originate as the excretory ducts of the mesonephros. Testosterone, secreted by the fetal Leydig cells, stabilizes the Wolffian ducts resulting in the development of the epididymis, vas deferens, ejaculatory duct, and seminal vesicle. Another hormone secreted by the testis, insulin-like factor 3 (INSL3), mediates testicular descent from the original perinephric location through the abdomen. Testosterone promotes testicular descent into the scrotum. Testicular descent is generally completed by 32 weeks’ gestation. Sertoli cells secrete Anti-Müllerian Hormone (AMH), which induces regression of the Müllerian ducts.
      Ovarian differentiation occurs slightly later than testicular differentiation. In the absence of SRY in the female fetus, the ovary specific transcription factors, Forkhead transcription factor 2 (FOXL2), Wingless type MMTV integration site family, member 4 (WNT4), R-spondin 1 (RSPO1), and the activated β-catenin pathway, initiate and maintain ovarian differentiation [9]. In the absence of testosterone and dihydrotestosterone (DHT), the external genital structures develop into the clitoris, vagina, and labia. Both the urethra and the vagina open onto the perineum.
      In peripheral target tissues, testosterone is converted to DHT. DHT promotes fusion of the urethral folds to form the corpus spongiosum and penile urethra. DHT also promotes development of the genital tubercle into the corpora cavernosa of the penis and fusion of the labioscrotal folds to form the scrotum.
      Primordial germ cells migrate from the allantois to the fetal gonads. Differentiation of germ cells to a spermatogenic or an oogenic fate does not depend on their XY or XX karyotype. Rather, the neighboring somatic cells in the gonads influence germ cell differentiation. In the female embryo, germ cells are exposed to high levels of retinoic acid which induce the expression of STRA8 leading to germ cell meiosis and development of oocytes. In the developing testis, the absence of retinoic acid causes the germ cells to develop into gonocytes that differentiate into spermatogonia and proliferate by mitosis; meiosis only starts at puberty in the male gonad.
      Go to:
      GENETICS OF SEX DIFFERENTIATION AND DEVELOPMENT
      Sex development is achieved by the precise synergistic temporal-spatial expression of numerous activating and repressing factors. Deviations from this established developmental sequence can result in disorders of sex development. Investigations into the molecular basis of DSDs in patients have elucidated many genes and genetic regulatory mechanisms involved in this process. Gene expression reflects tissue specificity, programing, and relative dosages to influence cell fate decisions.
      Genes involved in the initial differentiation of the bipotential gonad include empty spiracles homeobox2 (EMX2), chromobox homolog2 (CBX2), Wilms’ tumor 1 (WT1), steroidogenic factor 1(NR5A1), LIM homeobox factor 9 (LHX9), sine oculis-related homeobox 1/4 (SIX 1/4), and GATA binding protein 4 (GATA4) [10]. Subsequently, cell fate decisions influence the differentiation of the bipotential genital ridge towards male or female phenotype. This process involves a complex regulatory network in which activation of one pathway, i.e., testicular, leads to repression of the other pathway, ovarian, and vice versa [11].
      In the developing testis, SRY promotes SOX9 expression. In conjunction with SRY and NR5A1, SOX9 generates a positive feedback loop for maintaining its expression and to promote Sertoli cell development. Two paracrine signaling molecules downstream of SOX9, fibroblast growth factor 9 (FGF9) and prostaglandin D2 synthase (PGD2) promote maintenance of testicular development [12]. FGF9 signals from the central region of the gonad to promote SOX9 expression and antagonize WNT4 signaling. Other genes relevant for testicular differentiation include CITED4 and other members of the SOX family, i.e. SOX3, SOX10, and SOX13 [13].
      Rather than being the “default pathway”, differentiation of the ovary is an active process dependent on the activity of specific factors. WNT4 suppresses SOX9 expression in the pre-granulosa cell of the developing ovary. WNT4 and RSPO1 stabilize β-catenin expression. FOXL2 is another ovarian transcription factor and nuclear protein crucial for differentiation and maintenance of ovarian differentiation [14]. The proteins, WNT4 and RSPO1, promote β-catenin accumulation in the nucleus where it interacts with LEF1 to promote transcription of other genes. FOXL2 and β-catenin also repress SOX9 expression. The WNT4 pathway upregulates follistatin, which inhibits activin B and prevents formation of the testis-specific vasculature [15]. Recent data derived from mouse studies suggest that the orphan nuclear receptor, chicken ovalbumin upstream promoter transcription factor II (COUP-TFII) may play an active role in eliminating the Wolffian ducts in females [16].
      We didn't "invent" sex. It's a two billion year old reality, f.uckface.

  • @TheMsLourdes
    @TheMsLourdes ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Just goes to show that sex is not entirely determined by chromosomes :) Thank you for sharing with us :)

    • @ultron374
      @ultron374 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It actually is but there are some cases, like this lady on film, where it works differently ( deficiency with Y chromosome)

    • @TheStepmonkey
      @TheStepmonkey 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's not how intersex works. Even if someone is born with that condition they still have characteristics of either male or female gender, not both at the same time. For example, the guy from the video was born as a man and he probably would've looked like one if it wasn't for all the surgeries he did to feminize his face and body cause it's clear he's trans 🤷🏻‍♀️

    • @Advertismentish
      @Advertismentish 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      ​@@ultron374 you missed the point there, bud.

    • @nihilistmisanthropy2846
      @nihilistmisanthropy2846 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@ultron374 "there are some cases" means their original comment was correct

    • @ZeSnowflake007fir
      @ZeSnowflake007fir 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No.
      There is only a male and a female.
      A hermaphrodite is a mixture of it. It is an anomaly.

  • @geigerzeichner2407
    @geigerzeichner2407 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    “Don't we have bigger problems?” is an often heard accusation against people raising awareness for inter and trans issues.
    The question is not "aren't there bigger problems?" but rather:
    Why should I have a problem with my neighbor's gender?
    So far, no one has been able to give me a convincing answer to this, and therefore I don't see a problem with it.
    We as humanity have big problems to solve. People who are inter or trans are NOT one of these problems nor is it their fight for equality, but rather the hatred that is spread against them. They don't want to MAKE the issue a problem, they HAVE problems because they face discrimination in multiple ways, including mutilation, simply because they are who they are.
    Aren't the people who say "we have bigger problems" the ones that make gender a problem to begin with? With all their effort to spread their message: "there are only two genders" they don't improve anything, they don't solve any of the big problems of our time, but rather make life unnecessarily difficult for a part of humanity by desperately trying to make something as private and unproblematic as one's own gender a problem.
    Hatred never solved any problems.
    Everyone deserves love ❤️
    if you're reading this and cannot find yourself able to love your inter or trans neighbor as yourself, you still can ask you if that means hate is the only option.

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@geigerzeichner2407 You're hated for a reason. You made it my problem when you decided "woman" had to include males.

    • @bluesonicstreak7317
      @bluesonicstreak7317 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@blacktigerpaw1 And how, exactly, is that a problem, let alone YOUR problem? How is the person who made this video "your problem," for example? She isn't doing a damn thing to you.

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@bluesonicstreak7317 The person in this video has a DSD. They didn't choose their condition. However, plenty of people in this comment section are choosing to conflate the two issues, as well as insist (wrongly) that due to Blume's DSD that there are more than two sexes.

    • @bluesonicstreak7317
      @bluesonicstreak7317 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@blacktigerpaw1 Nobody "chooses" to have gender dysphoria either. All the research into its etiology points at it being essentially a neurological intersex condition: it's associated with a number of variations in sex hormone metabolization and uptake. It's not always entirely appropriate to bring them up together - most trans people are unlikely to have had their genitals forcibly reassigned at birth, for instance - but there is a reason most people see them as related.
      And many intersex people ALSO identify as transgender, because they are raised as a gender that differs from the one they end up considering themselves. Personally, every intersex person I've met fell into that bucket.
      They are close issues. They are both medical conditions. Pretending they aren't, or that one condition is "chosen" whereas the other is a "poor you, you can't help it" situation is just a mask for bigotry.

    • @Mara_1337
      @Mara_1337 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That's what I'm saying all the time.
      Like, the troubles that come with people changing their gender or being intersex are mostly just created by people who are against them for no discernable reason.
      Sure, with being intersex, sometimes some medical treatments are needed to balance hormone or organ deviations. That can be inherent.
      But for other people than the affected person, or society, it literally does not matter.
      If we all just didn't give a fuck, nobody would have a problem.
      So my collegue is trans. Ok, so? Aha. Cool. Is that supposed to shock me? Does it make a difference on earth? If we literally don't care, it also doesn't matter.
      All the arguments why one should be against it fall flat, except maybe the religious ones where people say god wouldn't like that. Well, can't say it's wrong because we can't even prove god exists, let alone what they would think of being trans. So that's kinda an incurable mindset. But anything else people go on about can be simply disproven.
      But people want it to be a problem so badly, we gotta fucking make studies and statistics just to prove them wrong, and then they'll still pull arguments outta their arse (until many eventually run out and probably choose religion again, as it can't be disproven).
      All this effort to defend people's right to live in peace, because some people just can't chill.
      THEY are the ones making us waste time and resources on arguing, wen everone could just be like "ok whatever" and the problem would INSTANTLY be gone...

  • @MelodyHayes
    @MelodyHayes 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +80

    I learned about this in biology before. Can’t believe peoples schools didn’t educate them on this

    • @aaa..............
      @aaa.............. 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I wish schools in my country would teach us these things 😥

    • @MelodyHayes
      @MelodyHayes 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@aaa.............. The good thing is it’s never too late to learn.

    • @aaa..............
      @aaa.............. 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@MelodyHayes true, I'm eager to learn stuff my school failed to, though most of the people don't feel the need to and usually end up discriminating others out of their ignorance

    • @MelodyHayes
      @MelodyHayes 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@aaa.............. I’m the same way! I’m really dyslexic and before I was taught how to over come it I was constantly taken out of classes and because of that I never got to learn some stuff. Now I love to learn new things but get made fun of for the stuff I missed out on.

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MelodyHayes DSDs aren't separate sexes.

  • @Quartzite9
    @Quartzite9 ปีที่แล้ว +1192

    People saying "its a mutation"
    Red hair is a mutation... Heterochromia is a mutation...
    That "argument" doesnt make sense
    Edit: y'all still missing the point 😑

    • @yumchain6957
      @yumchain6957 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Seems from what he said in a different video that his male parts failed to drop in the womb, so would the term "not fully develop" be a more accurate term?

    • @nicoleb-r3033
      @nicoleb-r3033 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@yumchain6957 The important part to remember here is that Blu has both partially formed male AND female genitalia.

    • @azarialunar4426
      @azarialunar4426 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      ​@@yumchain6957 ...No

    • @lunariousmoon
      @lunariousmoon ปีที่แล้ว

      White skin is a mutations, blue eyes are mutation...I can go on

    • @annmareeskinner6997
      @annmareeskinner6997 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's a biological condition google it there are variations they can have ambitious genitalia or a fusion of both they are unable to have children due to this incomplete sexual systems of either male or female or a bit of both

  • @TheHairbowMaster
    @TheHairbowMaster ปีที่แล้ว +47

    I studied bio chemistry in college and I learned about all the different things that can affect a fetus during development. There are tons of factors like genetics, hormones, and more that can affect the genitalia and the brain while they are developing! It's really ignorance that causes people to be judgemental. I'm so sad that they don't just teach this stuff in middle and high school. Unfortunately, things like religion and traditions will always strongly affect people's views on these matters but talking about things like intersex will help! I love watching the look on people's faces when I say, "explain THAT with religion!". Lol. I stick up for EVERYONE because I know the TRUTH! I'm so glad to see you speaking out and helping to educate others! That's the most important thing you could do!! People just need to be educated! That's it plain and simple!

    • @CameronKiesser
      @CameronKiesser ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm very much still Conservative and Christian, but even I am confused by the hoops people go through. So they hate the media but eat up the media's campaign against Trans people, believe people have a soul and body but somehow the body can be flawed with everything except for gender... Some seemly have no issues with Autism, a neurological variation, but having a different neurological sex from your body is somehow too absurd?

    • @francisbrewster4948
      @francisbrewster4948 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes ---- we need more education however the person in the street will never be educsted enough will they?
      I wish that this person here would explain what medical syndrome they are ---- no one is true "intersex" that is truly between genders, ....this is the difference between genotype and phenotype isnt it ? ....human genetics

    • @TheHairbowMaster
      @TheHairbowMaster ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@francisbrewster4948 yes. I agree! It's gotta start somewhere. So I guess at least getting people talking about it is a good start.

  • @DogsnCakeHooray
    @DogsnCakeHooray 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Every single intersex person I’ve ever come across is absolutely beautiful. They have beautiful features, beautiful voices, incredible depth of character and the most vibrant personalities. I think this is due, in part, to their struggle - they’ve been through a lot - and they’ve got grit. But there’s also something really beautiful about intersex people - it’s like nature selected the best attributes of each gender and combined them. Nature is amazing. And YOU are beautiful!! 💕

  • @AmeliaMastervally
    @AmeliaMastervally ปีที่แล้ว +462

    I've known about intersex people for a while, a famous runner from my country was disqualified from competing because she is intersex. I think it's genuinely really interesting, how it can present differently in different people and how it really changes your understanding of sex as soon as you learn about it. We know gender is a spectrum, so is it all that surprising that sex is too?

    • @msb6993
      @msb6993 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Is it Castor Semenya?

    • @AmeliaMastervally
      @AmeliaMastervally ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@msb6993 yeah

    • @Nattile2019
      @Nattile2019 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@AmeliaMastervally that's because Castor's a man

    • @hyperhannah5741
      @hyperhannah5741 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      @@Nattile2019do you not realize that the original commenter said intersex? The runner was neither male nor female, but somewhere in between BIOLOGICALLY. That’s what this video is about too. This runner was literally born intersex, but was disqualified anyway for something they couldn’t control.

    • @Nattile2019
      @Nattile2019 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@hyperhannah5741 The condition Castor had only affected biological males. Not females.

  • @Thirteenth-cs2cm
    @Thirteenth-cs2cm 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +323

    Say it with me: INTERSEX PEOPLE ARE REAL AND VALID

    • @cspace1234nz
      @cspace1234nz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      ….yeah just that the figure of 1.7% is highly disingenuous and is way less than that in reality

    • @reneewilliams1747
      @reneewilliams1747 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And rare!

    • @grinsko6741
      @grinsko6741 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Intersex people are real and valid.

    • @armondtanz
      @armondtanz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@cspace1234nz 136,000,000 people that would be...
      Also if a school has 300 students then 5 should be intersex.???
      i went to a school with nearly 1000 pupils, thats 17 students who should be intersex. It was defo 0.

    • @sunflowersandsage6226
      @sunflowersandsage6226 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@armondtanzhow would you even know it was zero? Are you running around testing students chromosomes?

  • @Fawing_Moostier
    @Fawing_Moostier 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +165

    ...There are people who don't know about Intersex?... How?

    • @tanyakilbane7636
      @tanyakilbane7636 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      Church

    • @Fawing_Moostier
      @Fawing_Moostier 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@tanyakilbane7636 ...ah, right

    • @clintmcbride7830
      @clintmcbride7830 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      They learn about biology from people like Matt Walsh or Ben Shapiro.

    • @jacig720
      @jacig720 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      There's a lot of situations where intersex babies go throught surgery to make their genitalia more """normal""" or """acepting"""" looking and end up never finding out until they have some hormonal issue or take a cariotype test etc. If you look up intersex adults that had invasive sugeries as infants you'll find a lot of stories of this kind (I think they made some pannel on an intersex international visibility day about this).

    • @Fawing_Moostier
      @Fawing_Moostier 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@jacig720Don't know how it is were you live, but for a few years now we have a law that forbids Operations on intersex Babys.
      I wish this law was put in place sooner.

  • @margueriteoreilly2168
    @margueriteoreilly2168 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautiful absolutely thank you for being so Brave and Raising Awareness of intersex . A few years ago I was lucky to meet a beautiful woman who explained her journey.

  • @mkatnileb2439
    @mkatnileb2439 ปีที่แล้ว +543

    You were born perfect and beautiful. Enjoy that mixture of divine femininity and masculinity.

    • @scottw.3258
      @scottw.3258 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      They're just a person, mate. Nothing special about them.

    • @fairygodmother139
      @fairygodmother139 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@scottw.3258shut up straight male

    • @haleyboston
      @haleyboston ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@scottw.3258okay Scotty. Do you feel better now?

    • @scottw.3258
      @scottw.3258 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@haleyboston I don't get you? What about my reply suggested i wasn't feeling Ok to begin with?
      Do you feel better?

    • @abittersweetdream
      @abittersweetdream ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@scottw.3258youve literally already said this on more than one of these comments... you awrite mate? 🤣 fucken parrot over here... learn some new tricks cuz this one is BORING

  • @nicolehessling1
    @nicolehessling1 ปีที่แล้ว +141

    You’re also biologically beautiful.

    • @ildottoreswife
      @ildottoreswife ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Biology rizz

    • @ChristianRThomas
      @ChristianRThomas ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think I'll agree with that. She looks very nicely made.

    • @beanj580
      @beanj580 ปีที่แล้ว

      Also has a vagina, looks and presents as female. She is intersex, not a biological male

  • @oogawa13kokomi
    @oogawa13kokomi ปีที่แล้ว +112

    Although I have heard of intersex, I have never really seen someone explain in depth like you do. Thank you!!!

    • @Canthus13
      @Canthus13 ปีที่แล้ว

      With all the trans hate, it's no surprise. Many of them are even reluctant to out themselves to their own partners.. Or they don't even know. It might be as simple as 'I'm sterile and have a huge clit', or it can go to the extremes like Blume where they have virtually no outward male features. (And to be clear, that's not the only range. Intersex genitalia runs across a broad range of presentation. To me this is one more reason religion makes no sense .)

    • @hawkknight4223
      @hawkknight4223 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’m sorry. How on earth did she explain this “in depth”? That’s literally not a man. Nor is she actually intersex. Because she said she does not have the plumbing. All intersex people. I have both the genitalia presented visibly. But only one of the genitals function properly in every case. There will always be a normal sized one. And a micro one. If you have a micro vagina, you cannot get a period or get pregnant. If you have a micropenis. You cannot get a woman pregnant or your self. She is not what she claims to be.

    • @Canthus13
      @Canthus13 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hawkknight4223 Did you not listen? Her DNA (Which the right LOVES to trot out as evidence of someone's gender) is literally XY. She has all the male chromosomes, and she has testicles, albeit in her abdomen. Try again. And no. Every case isn't the same. intersex genitals cover a broad gamut, from external genitalia that appear perfectly normal, but with testicles instead of ovaries, ovaries instead of testicles, or a weird-ass amalgamation of the two. I know of at least one woman who didn't find out she was intersex until she went for fertility treatment.

  • @Will_14_years_ago
    @Will_14_years_ago 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Be whoever you want. Who cares if people know or dont. If were deciding on being content based off what someone else thinks of us then you still have a long way to go. Peace and love!

    • @TransIsBest
      @TransIsBest 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ....? they're explaining how their condition works so people don't think it's taboo or weird or are confused when they meet an intersex person irl. It's just informative work

  • @LaenayaSathe
    @LaenayaSathe ปีที่แล้ว +73

    I don't hear enough about intersex awareness. Yes intersex folks exist and they are valid and important! Go you! 🥳

  • @dawnolynyk
    @dawnolynyk ปีที่แล้ว +78

    This is new to me. Thank you for educating me. You are a beautiful person. Glad to know you. Have a good life surrounded with good friends.💗

    • @SaraRyan-v7r
      @SaraRyan-v7r ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It's refreshing to see people respond this way. Thanks for posting that.

    • @pythondrink
      @pythondrink ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I'm quite surprised ppl find this info new. A lesson in sex chromosomal abnormalities in biology should teach this.

    • @SaraRyan-v7r
      @SaraRyan-v7r ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@pythondrink it should be taught, but it's not. And since so many intersex people are made to feel embarrassed or to feel like something's wrong with them, there's not a general knowledge. I first learned about it on a tv show called Popular, years and years ago. It was brand new information to me. I think it's great this person is sharing this, without any sense of shame or as if it's wrong, because it's not. Even calling it a chromosomal abnormality suggests they're not normal, but if 1 in 100 people are born this way, it is normal, just not as common. It bothers me as well that so many people on the right insist that God makes people who they are meant to be, but then deny that intersex people or gay people are also his creation. Can't have it both ways.

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pythondrink DSDs aren't separate sexes.

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SaraRyan-v7r Certain DSDs have salt wasting disorders, so they are disorders.
      Cope .

  • @carolinedefreze2232
    @carolinedefreze2232 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    You’re beautiful you are who you are ❤ thanks for your voice x

    • @lindoel741
      @lindoel741 ปีที่แล้ว

      🤮 nothing like that is beautiful only what is normal is!!!!

    • @carolinedefreze2232
      @carolinedefreze2232 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@lindoel741 good luck with your normalcy I hope it never lets you down. Bless you.

  • @robertvogt5606
    @robertvogt5606 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Your a blessing that this world needs .

  • @carterjacobs6649
    @carterjacobs6649 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    I want this to be seen by every American

    • @truthbearingpsychonaut
      @truthbearingpsychonaut 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They are deranged and only care about identity politics.

    • @kathleenking9071
      @kathleenking9071 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      So true😢

    • @Serene80
      @Serene80 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Every human...

  • @DylanDeathly
    @DylanDeathly 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    It makes my soul happy that your willing to put yourself out there and be confident about it. I love it when humans can do that.

  • @judithbradford9130
    @judithbradford9130 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +248

    BLESS YOU I am so sick of telling this to people who insist "everybody is one or the other" and JUST WILL NOT BELIEVE the actual biology is more complicated than their retrograde gender hierarchy insists.

    • @Nejim11
      @Nejim11 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Exception is not the rule.. Just like people who have Gigantism it is a rare condition. The norm remains male or female. If there was a 3 genders it would need different genitalia. When people do change they always take from one of the two gender to change..

    • @TheSarahskaninchen
      @TheSarahskaninchen 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      ​@@Nejim11but that is still the Point. Yes there are two Main biological genders. But there also are exceptions. So it does Not make any Sense to make Up two boxes where everyone needs to be stuffed into No Matter If they fit or Not. Be Open to acknowledge exceptions and respect people how they are!

    • @judithbradford9130
      @judithbradford9130 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      @@Nejim11 Everyone has ROUGHLY blue or brown eyes. Yet we don't "fix" the green and hazel eyes and CALL them "really" blue or brown. There aren't JUST TWO CATEGORIES of person. The two boxes are SOCIAL, not biological.

    • @Nejim11
      @Nejim11 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@judithbradford9130 if you want to talk about spectrum. Only race is. Gender is not.

    • @BillDraheim
      @BillDraheim 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It’s sad reading fragile males desperately trying to pretzel this to fit an erroneous narrative.

  • @peagames2002
    @peagames2002 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    One of my teachers was intersex. She taught swedish, she was unusually tall and had very deep feminine voice. She had no children of her own either.

  • @Tommasina-pw6bl
    @Tommasina-pw6bl ปีที่แล้ว +167

    Thanks for sharing. Too many people are too afraid to speak up these days. 1.7 per cent is a lot of people.

    • @jackburton307
      @jackburton307 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      The 1.7% intersex figure is bullocks. This figure includes conditions which most clinicians do not recognize as intersex, such as Klinefelter syndrome, Turner syndrome, and late-onset adrenal hyperplasia. If the term intersex is to retain any meaning, the term should be restricted to those conditions in which chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex, or in which the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female. Applying this more precise definition, the true prevalence of intersex is seen to be about 0.018%. The scientific consensus is Klinefelter and Turner syndrome (and other similar sex defects) does not fall under intersex. Klinefelter syndromeonly affects males where they have an extra X chromosome that results in testes not producing testosterone. This causes them to be taller, less muscular body, broader hips, longer legs and arms, larger breasts (gynecomastia), weaker bones, a lower energy level, and smaller penis and testicles. They basically castratos (males that have been castrated before puberty). Unlike intersex, Klinefelter syndrome people do not have any primary sex characteristics of the opposite sex (penis with residual ovaries).

    • @BeeOnASunflower853
      @BeeOnASunflower853 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@jackburton307 Stop plagiarizing the first available crap you found in a Google search (and consider the source and agenda of the publication), and grow some tolerance and compassion...

    • @climber950
      @climber950 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jackburton307here’s the reference pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/

    • @engineergaming1669
      @engineergaming1669 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jackburton307so because a few clinicians think otherwise their opinions are fact?

    • @jackburton307
      @jackburton307 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@engineergaming1669 the scientific consensus is Klinefelter and Turner syndrome (and other similar sex defects) does not fall under intersex. Klinefelter syndromeonly affects males where they have an extra X chromosome that results in testes not producing testosterone. This causes them to be taller, less muscular body, broader hips, longer legs and arms, larger breasts (gynecomastia), weaker bones, a lower energy level, and smaller penis and testicles. They basically castratos (males that have been castrated before puberty). Unlike intersex, Klinefelter syndrome people do not have any primary sex characteristics of the opposite sex (penis with residual ovaries).

  • @MrRay47
    @MrRay47 ปีที่แล้ว +253

    Thanks for the (start of an?) education. At 1.7% of the population I must have met hundreds if not thousands of intersex people during my 75 years of life and never known about any of them. I really hope you will continue to vlog as I'm sure there's a lot more for me to learn

    • @MS-ni6cx
      @MS-ni6cx ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Anne Fausto-Sterling s suggestion that the prevalence of intersex might be as high as 1.7% has attracted wide attention in both the scholarly press and the popular media. Many reviewers are not aware that this figure includes conditions which most clinicians do not recognize as intersex, such as Klinefelter syndrome, Turner syndrome, and late-onset adrenal hyperplasia. If the term intersex is to retain any meaning, the term should be restricted to those conditions in which chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex, or in which the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female. Applying this more precise definition, the true prevalence of intersex is seen to be about 0.018%, almost 100 times lower than Fausto-Sterling s estimate of 1.7%. So, the reason you never met an intersex is because it's 100 times less common than 1.7%.

    • @emilyp811
      @emilyp811 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I don’t know why this comment just made me so happy, but it did. Maybe the openness and willingness to learn at any age. I wish there were heaps more people like you in the world.

    • @caddieohm7059
      @caddieohm7059 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Estimating the prevalence of intersex variations in the population is challenging due to a variety of factors, including variations in definitions of intersex, cultural differences, and the fact that many intersex variations are not immediately apparent. Intersex is a term used to describe a variety of conditions in which an individual's reproductive or sexual anatomy doesn't fit typical definitions of male or female.
      It's important to note that being intersex is not a medical condition in itself; instead, it refers to a range of natural variations. Estimates of the prevalence of intersex conditions vary widely, ranging from about 0.05% to 1.7% of live births, depending on the criteria used and the population studied.
      Many intersex variations are not visibly apparent, and some individuals may not be aware of their intersex status until later in life. Additionally, medical interventions on intersex individuals have been a topic of ethical concern, as they may be performed without the individual's informed consent.

    • @lynnodonnell4764
      @lynnodonnell4764 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I hope your meaning to be funny. I want to see this MALE on a construction sit

    • @SkullQueen_Chloe
      @SkullQueen_Chloe ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ikr? It’s truly fascinating knowing statistics. It makes me wonder how many people I’ve met that were trans or intersex considering I’ve met 3 natural redheads.