HPGay! Intersex Awareness Day

At least in NYC, today is Intersex Awareness Day so I'm celebrating by spreading the word about what exactly intersex means.

I know I went really quickly and wasn't entirely coherent so if you have any questions please leave them in the comments, but be respectful!

If you celebrate Halloween, what are you dressing up as and what are you doing??

Kelly and Julian have both had pretty rough weeks. Go leave them some nice words :]
Julian: http://twitter.com/ItTakesII
Kelly: http://twitter.com/kellydanver

A good intersex resource: http://oiiusa.org/

The HPA is going to be at the Quidditch World Cup! Will you? http://worldcupquidditch.com/

My tweeeeeets: http://twitter.com/skywalkr16

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• potter
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• intersex
• awareness
• day
• lgbt
• lgbtq
• sex
• gender
• sexuality

[thesunsgonewibbly]

October 28 is my birthday, so that's cool.

[thehpalliance]

@thesunsgonewibbly HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY! Did you eat cake? Apparently I will be doing a lot of that in the near future.

-Lauren

[TheScreamingReviewer]

I love you Lauren.

[thehpalliance]

@TheScreamingReviewer I love you too.

-Lauren

[PadieBlack]

I definitely support more segments like these =D Maybe you could speak of Asexuality too? ;)

Unfortunatately, as I live in Portugal, I'm not dressing up at all. However, I'm planning on going to university with my Ravenclaw tie.

[thehpalliance]

@PadieBlack Asexuality is definitely on the list :]

-Lauren

[ladysidi]

Yes, I'd LOVE to see this as a continuing segment, :D

[suchducks]

i especially love when you acknowledge offensive/out-dated terms. love this series so hard, you are totally killin' it. in the good way.

[XXYSexChromosomes]

Basically all intersex people have a disorder of sex development, and some radicals don't like DSD as they think it describes them as a disorder, but it doesn't it describes what they have as a disorder. AND since the vast majority of intersex people are infertile and require life long medical care it's hard for them to argue successfully that they don't have a DSD. I do have a DSD and I am not intersex, I am male.

[XXYSexChromosomes]

Not all people who are lumped into that description you gave accept that they're intersex at all. In fact the vast majority of people with those conditions don't even know they have those conditions regard themselves as male or female respectively. According to OII the self proclaimed largest support group for intersex people, "Intersex is about Intersex Identity" so whatever "conditions" they declare are "intersex" they're wrong by their own definition, as identity cannot be imposed randomly.

[ArentWeInAPickle]

It would be awesome if this was a regular segment. And I was Hermione from AVPM.

[TheScreamingReviewer]

@thehpalliance :) :) :)

[sarathoughtonnothing]

please make HPgay a regular thing! also im being a pirate thank you for asking

[ThisisAidan]

I absolutely adore you for touching on these very complicated (and sensitive) topics with intelligence and tact. Thank you. :)