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Opinion: Trump administration policies will create worse health care for intersex people like me
“It seems the Trump administration is arguing that people like me are neither male nor female but simply ‘disordered,’” writes Kimberly Zieselman.
Like up to 1.7% of the worldwide population, I was born intersex — with physical variations of sex anatomy that don’t align with typical notions of a female or male body. In the United States, roughly 1-2 of every 100 babies are born with intersex traits, so we are as common as those born with red hair or green eyes and more common than identical twins. We have always been here. In fact, researchers announced in 2019 that U.S. Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski was likely intersex.
Those of us who are intersex have always faced medical and social harm. But what is happening now is something altogether different: the government’s attempt to erase our very existence.
