Opinion: In the intersex community, we’re desperate for quality care. Doctors aren’t listening
In the medical community, the health needs of intersex adults are often an afterthought. That's wrong — they deserve more thoughtful, specialized care.
I sometimes had a tough time with doctors before I found out — at the age of 41 — that I was intersex and that my true medical history had been hidden from me for decades. Now that it’s out in the open, I still can’t find knowledgeable doctors to help me.
When I was a teenager, a doctor told my parents that I needed surgery to remove my “uterus” and “ovaries” because something was wrong and they might become cancerous. It wasn’t until 25 years later that I got my medical, a condition in which a person with X and Y chromosomes is born with a typically female appearance.
