Hinsegin dagar í Reykjavík - 01.08.2014, Page 9

Hinsegin dagar í Reykjavík - 01.08.2014, Page 9
Burt með feluleikinn Hvað þarf helst að breytast hvað varðar málefni intersex fólks á Íslandi? Feluleikurinn. Það er mikilvægasta atriðið. Það að allir séu hver í sínu horni með sína greiningu og upplifi sig sem einangraða. Það á enginn að þurfa að alast upp og halda að það sé svo mikið að honum að það þurfi að halda því leyndu. Intersex Ísland Hægt er að senda Intersex Íslandi tölvupóst á intersex@samtokin78.is. Einnig fundar hópurinn fyrsta þriðjudag í hverjum mánuði í nýju húsnæði Samtakanna á Suðurgötu 3. Allir sem hafa greiningu sem getur flokkast undir intersex eru hjartanlega velkomnir, sem og foreldrar og aðrir aðstandendur. Intersex Ísland verður enn fremur með atriði í gleðigöngunni og þeir sem vilja styðja hin nýstofnuðu samtök með því að ganga með þeim eru hvattir til að hafa samband með tölvupósti. Kitty æfir karate hjá Þórshamri (Ljósmynd: Birkir Jónsson) The Big Secret: Kitty Anderson discusses her experience of being intersex When Kitty Anderson was only three months old, doctors discovered that she had CAIS, or Complete Androgene Insensitivity Syndrome. This means that Kitty has XY chromosomes, but the cells in her body are immune to androgens, and as a result her body developed mostly like a female body. She had a orchidectomy when she was three months old in 1982, which at the time was a common practice, but is now often believed to be an unnecessary operation – or at least a decision people should make themselves as a teenager or an adult. CAIS is often treated as a big secret within families as well as the public health system, and Kitty first learned that she had CAIS when she was twelve and had to start a hormonal treatment to artificially start her puberty. She felt betrayed and found it difficult to accept that she was ‘different’, but gradually accepted it, especially after her cousin was also born with CAIS. Kitty knows very few other intersex people in Iceland, but has attended intersex conferences in England and been in contact with organisations worldwide. Now she has founded the organisation Intersex Iceland, which she hopes will be a step towards stopping the secrecy around intersex matters and improving the legal status of intersex people in Iceland. Vodafone RED er komið í Frelsi Gagnamagn með mínútum, ótakmörkuðum SMS-um og böffer. Þú þarft ekkert annað Vodafone Góð samskipti bæta lífið stærst í 16

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