No, honestly, thank you, Emily! I understand that this was a difficult and, for some reason, controversial topic to discuss, even though talking about other LGBTQIA+ rights isn't. You are a beautiful well spoken individual addressing an issue that is important to every society and, eve, every species on this planet (even though most of the human population of earth feel like it isn't because it isn't happening to them). I give you a standing ovation and I am sharing this with everyone I know. Well done.
@Swae Ocean All what? Okay, fine. You pointed out what problems many of these genetic anomalies incur, and sounded as if the medical support they receive would be a bad thing, as it allows them to procreate and spread the problem. While I appreciate the facts you pointed out to further understanding of the situation (and not to post hoc justify something, I presume), what you are saying is not as clear as you'd like.
@Swae Ocean I think it is not to teach that these anomalies are normal but that they happen, and that they are nothing to be ashamed for. This talk also calls into question, whether we really need the aspect of who matches whom to procreate in everyday conversation. Sure, 2% may be a fringe phenomenon, but would it not have some advantages to be able to only bring this up, when you want? But otherwise fair enough. We just have to see how this pans out over generations. Short sight as a species seems to be a big problem with that. How do you get from someone having a genetic anomaly to them not being human?
This was different from what I expected. I have known about intersex people for most of my life, but this was educational, especially about unnecessary operations.
@Glyn number 1 the article that you have listed is from Wiki which is an unreliable resource number 2 just because it's rare doesn't mean that it doesn't deserve talking or awareness
Yes, in health class they said that intersex people were born a male or female and their genitalia is just weirdly sized or shaped, I kind of knew it was wrong because I know more than the average 13 year old, but it was still messed up that they didn’t actually know stuff about that but were teaching it as the only type of intersex
It's still not all that special. Along the lines of people bickering about prevalence, "intersex" is a catch-all for a variety of conditions that affect sexual differentiation. That 2% statistic is very misleading as it encompasses every condition that results in intersex and every type of presentation therein.
One of the greatest things about TED is that when you look through the comments you actually find more ideas, costructive criticism, positive discussions. It shows how comments should always be used, and adds a lot to the video itself.
Occasionally, many top comments one finds are of the toxic and unhelpful kind. RUclips comments section is the last place I want to spend my day in. I'd rather talk to a real person face to face. The advantage of RUclips though is you can just ignore the toxic people for the most part. I'm just about to take a wine and cheese break myself from all the nonsense RUclips drama. Will resume later, but hopefully not too soon.
@Thunder Cat I agree. There is no constructive criticism here. I would say she meantions a lot of biological truths that she uses to prove a biological lie. But if we try to argue aganst the overall point of this talk we get shut out.
@@lee1davis1 What biological lie are you talking about? I would say it is a fact that this many people can be defined as intersex because of their genitalia, chromosomes and hormones.
That would be great, those are 3 things I can't stand but still have to deal with. I don't wanna have children, so that would also be great, not worrying about that.
I mean, that's basically the entire history of learning. We come up with a wrong explanation for some observed phenomena, then we study it more, improve our knowledge, and come up with a better wrong explanation. We went from Classical physics to Newtonian physics to Relativistic physics and now we're in Quantum Mechanics which is also wrong, but it's the best wrong we've come up with so far. And in another however many years, we'll have a new wrong physics model that's even better than QM.
No, wrong. The examples given are still right, they just don't explain everything. Science just doesn't throw what it has proven trough the window. it enriches it.@@ang-hell
@johnmburt1960 Define "true." The word "useful" would be more accurate. Basically, if you've heard of this before: all models are wrong, but some are useful.
It's interesting /telling how society (and the medical profession at times) can tell a person like Emily that she needs certain medical procedures, yet she doesn't, while discouraging trans people from pursuing the surgeries that they desire. Even more telling is the tendency to perform some of these needless surgeries on infants without their consent.
Wow I came to the complete opposite conclusion. Im thinking how bad is it to encourage people (especially young people ) to undergo these invasive surgeries when someone who is intersex is happy she didn't get rid of her testicles that aren't even providing any normative function. I think that's telling about the transgender craze.
I find it odd how the topic of intersex isn't taught in biology or science, currently I'm studying gender (both the biological, societal and neurological approach) in psychology (in Highschool! So exciting!). Not in biology where it would honestly make more sense for the topic to be in but im in a behavioural science class... But more so, I have friends who are working towards medical degrees and, honestly, I'm so surprised that more of them aren't taking psychology than those that are, because if doctors- doctors with 8 year medical degrees are trying to convince intersex people to have invasive, potentially dangerous surgeries, they are undereducated. I'm 16, I'm not looking towards a degree in medicine or even scientific research and it seems to me that I know more about AIS and CAH than most of the doctors and nurses im friends with. I really enjoyed this video, I love when people talk about 'hidden' issues and bring them to light, and I love it even more when these issues are talked about by either those who experience/experienced it or who are professionals/professors, it adds a little more authenticity than a teen with no doctorate or experience on a soapbox.
So a few points i have on this are as follows. Biology in highschool is incredibly limited and kept to basic and common things needed to make further education i.e. uni easier and more understandable. So intersex being rarer and not building block of the large science of biology isnt considered of great importance in the highschool level. Second point is that those medical degrees again tend to be a general medical degree with different majors and study focuses such as neurology so studying about something like gender theory and psychology doesnt link up as much with people looking to be surgeons. That 8 years is nothing compared to the further 10s of years they will continue to learn on the job and from further research and studies. One of my housemates is stating his 3rd year of physics and also doing basic biology for the sake of becoming a forensics specialist and he said that specific to what hes learning and his path in uni he hasnt had to learn much about the in depth biology subjects such as sexual organs and gender albeit he has learned basics but not indepth because it was not specific to his course. Remember that even in med school if those people had to learn 100% of everything about the human body they would be in school for the rest of their lives and we wouldnt have docotrs hence having many doctors specialised in different things.
I wish you the absolute best in life and continue thinking and learning you'll go so far with an open mind which you clearly have the world would be a better place with more people like you.
''doctors trying to convince intersex people to have invasive surgeries'' Sounds terrible. But it depends. No two cases are the same. And in her case (I imagine?) sound like she's functioning (perfectly?) and comfortable, content as a woman. I presume that ''dead organ'' inside you is not a good thing. No matter if it's ''healthy tissue'' it's still foreign object, without a function, which might cause serious troubles one day. Or not? And removal may be a minor procedure? I am speculating. But i'm pretty sure about one of the reasons - she's refusing operation. She wants to keep her Balls. Because the whole thing is her identity. Thanks to ideology she's subscribing to.
''I find it odd how the topic of intersex isn't taught in biology or science...I'm 16, I'm not looking towards a degree in medicine or even scientific research and it seems to me that I know more about AIS and CAH than most of the doctors and nurses...'' Because humanities are infected with ideology masquerading as academia. Feminism (third wave) women's -gender -intersectionality studies...it's all ideology ! Far-left, authoritarian, illiberal pernicious ideology. (If you disagree your'e not just wrong. You are evil) It makes 16y.old believe, think...that they ''know'' better then doctors, know more then modern medicine or scientists.
This is one of the most endearing talks I've seen. I cannot understand why people would shame someone in regards to this. Thank you for sharing your video.
@@alcoholandfun243 I think that they're referring to the fact that some doctors take the approach of trying to conform an intersex person into female or male through unnecessary surgeries
Thank you for speaking out against harmful and unnecessary medical intervention to 'correct' or 'confirm' a person's healthy, normal body in order to conform it to stereotypes.
@@Alianger nope! every trans person's transition is different. some trans women have facial feminization surgery, where their face is altered to look more stereotypically feminine; many don't. some trans men have top surgery to remove their breasts; some don't. dysphoria is a wide spectrum and each individual who experiences it experiences it differently. many trans people feel no need to get certain procedures done and are comfortable with or accept the way their face or their shoulders or other parts of them are.
I enjoyed your talk a lot! You are one of the lucky ones, who was allowed to grow up as yourself. I am way older than you, nobody had any idea what intersex was, when I was born. Th did not like what they saw when they looked at my genitals, and decided to make them "male". I grew up as a boy, everything was fine, until puberty hit, I did not develop into a guy, but stayed pretty female. Nobody knew why, I was just considered to be different. I live my "male" life until it as discovered that i was more female than male. I transitioned at that time into the female I am today. I am a happy woman now, but I wish i could have been a female person all my life! Keep up your good work, and help that people can grow up with their own life and not with a life somebody else decided they should have!
Awesome video. When I saw the talk a few weeks ago on Ted Talks, i shared it with my friends and colleagues to easier explain that I have complete androgen Insensitivity syndrome (XY) . I wasnt diagnosed til I was 21 and I am now 37, and still struggle to come to terms with parts of it. But this video certainly gets people thinking and I applaud you for it
As someone who is gender fluid, and with a lot of LGBT friends, thank you so much for sharing this. I learned more today, and people NEED to hear this story. So often society assumes we're all black or white, male or female, etc. They have no idea the wide spectrum of gender or sexual orientation that exists and why. To many assume it's a choice, and you're proof that it's not. We've always been taught that we are either male or female, but that's only because society has made it difficult or impossible to come out as being different. So thank you for having the courage to share your story. I shared this video several times and will continue to do so.
That Kilted Guy DIY Home Improvement as a fellow genderfluid person I agree so much with what you said and this video. Society needs to change if it claims we’re “not real” because we are and we’re here
@@SphincterOfDoom not as rare as you think though. Only 4 of all ~1000 of people I know, know that I'm intersex. You likely know someone who's intersex in your life and they never tell you, so you'll never know and keep thinking that we're rare.
How fortunate intersex is to have Emily as a spokes... person. She is poised and matter-of-fact. Before this, I was unaware of the prevalence of intersex.
@@seybertooth9282 What is the number then? Tell me, I looked it up and that's what comes up. I grew up on a farm, and a lot of animals end are born intersex. We have three heifers who are "Freemartins" which means that they are intersex. THREE, OUT OF LIKE, 50 COWS. I wouldn't be surprised if there were more intersex people than estimated!
I can tell you're trying to be inclusive by saying spokesperson (At least I hope that's what that was) but she refers to herself with female pronouns and seems comfortable presenting as a woman so I think it'd be better to refer to her as a spokeswoman. Or at least refer to her as a spokesperson without the "...". You made a mistake but learning is good!
IKR. 2% of the population sounds small so we treat them as invisible and negligible; until you realize 2% of 340,000,000 million people is still MILLIONS of people. I’m too lazy to do the math but at least 8 million people. That’s bigger than some middle American states.
@@Abba-dabba-doo, no, to the contrary, it would seem that assholes have been taking up too much of the available bandwidth. The fact that people who don't have a dog in this fight actually click on the vid, listen, and then give real feed back, like -- "learned something" -- one might think would be a reason to (at the very least) not be a pos.
@@LifeAsANoun ME a pos? Your comment seemed to insinuate that the majority of people on Emily's side of the debate had not and could not make a sound argument. That's fallacious and pos move and it reeks of the dog whistling I've seen taking up a lot of the "available bandwidth" as well. I'm pointing out that Emily is not even close to the first person to make these arguments or bring any of this to the table. If she's the first person you're hearing it from that's perfectly fine, but it's worth pointing out that this stuff has been widely known for a while, whether or not you decided to listen to Emily and others with her POV earlier.
@@Abba-dabba-doo Yea, can confirm, I learned nothing from the video, not because it was wrong, but because I already knew all of this. I''m not sure we can ever really get a society where people understand basic things though, since there's a lot of basic things to know, and lots of people. Internet sure helps with spread of knowledge, but big portion of people just seek entertainment, so they never learn these things, or if they do learn, it's when they're already old. So most of all people will always be stupid. However, if something becomes mainstream then there's a social pressure to conform to those ideas, so any given idea has a possibility to be known to most people. It's just that people will come up with new things to shame others with then.
Did we hear a logical argument against binary gendering? She seemed to identify as female, dress feminine, and use female pronouns, even while acknowledging that she has XY chromosomes and striated testes. Did she argue for a third gender? Didn’t seem like she did. She argued for better biology classes and better educated medical professionals, which I agree with. And she is correct, intersex is something we should be taught about. The question though is how should we talk about it? Intersex is not a third gender. Intersex is not an agenda. Intersex is a catch-all term for human sexual biology that falls outside of norm. Not all intersex are XY chromosomal females, nor is intersex a Banner for transgenderism. I concur that students should be educated on the diversity of differences that fall between biological male and biological female. I even concur that we need to develop better language to communicate this diversity. We also need to recognize that a man transitioning into a woman or vis versa is still a binary set of male-female, just as intersex consists of males with female characteristics and females with Male characteristics. We even know that neuter is a possibility, where the individual displays no sexual biological morphology. What we don’t need is forced language change, laws requiring use of forced language, nor parents transitioning their children because our culture is undergoing a societal contagion. We need better education, better awareness, and an open discussion that doesn’t push agendas. Thank you Mrs. Quinn for sharing an honest assessment of our human diversity!
A system that correctly classifies 98% of the population is not a bad system. It's not perfect, we could do better, but to say it's useless is a little strong for me.
A system that leaves 2% of the population left for dead, gives the rest of the population the tools to marginalized them, and has a major stochastic influence on ignorance and discrimination, is not a good system. Newtonian physics are also good for 99% of the things you need to work with, but if you want your precious GPS and other things you take for granted to actually work, you _need_ Relativity.
@@katrinal353 I don't deny that atrocities have been committed in the name of this system, but that's humans for you. We are extremely good at dividing people into ingroups and outgroups and demonizing and outgroup and praising (angelizing?) the ingroup. And Newtonian gravity has taken us to the planets of the solar system. _As long as you understand the limitations of the system, and understand when it is applicable and when it is not, it is not an obstacle._ There's a lesson there.
@@katrinal353 To clarify, I don't want to replace the gender binary - I think it still functions fairly well - I want to complete it with a set of categories for the different types of intersex.
One of the best TED talks I have heard. She doesn't shame or insult anyone,she tried to stay neutral and mainly state facts. Truly educational video and scientifically correct. I am truly astonished 😍
Isn't it a coincidence that no religion has ever communicated that kind of educational revelations from their gods, but would rather share the prejudices of the unaware and uneducated people of the past?
Just because you don’t know of it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Plenty of religions mention it, if they don’t, it doesn’t make them ignorant, since it’s a very rare phenomena and there are thousands of things that are more common that aren’t addressed. Nothing has changed except for how you CHOOSE to view it. Same with most things in life, there’s no added new complications, we just want to see things above ground instead of below it because society now is more considerate of others feelings. All modern biology tells us that hormonal stimulus is needed to create gene expression, the consequences of those gene expressions are the same regardless of whether you know that or not.
@@pa21thebeast "Plenty of religions mention it" - I doubt that - which ones, and where do they mention it? And of course it doesn't make them ignorant, it's "only" another example that nothing scientific from the future has ever been foretold by any religion. Isn't that a weird coincidence that God himself passed the knowledge on so many things that were perfectly parallel to people's current knowledge of that time? It's just as if there was no God involved at all...
Very informative and powerful speech. Emily really drove the point of sexual differences home with her statement about shame. Thanks Emily for sharing this with us and bringing healing to people who are struggling.
It's a shame that so many people feel the need to change their bodies in order to "fit" into society's mold of what is female and what is male. She is right, we all fall on a spectrum. We are very far away from learning to accept people as they are. I'm very happy that I heard this, it helped me understand some of the issues that surround LGBTQ+ people.
If genders wouldn’t exist, so wouldn’t you and I! It’s not a spectrum. LGBTQABCXYZwhatever is the exception not the norm. You all are not helping the cause here. In general, people, no matter the gender, skin colour, ethnicity, religion, nationality, just want to be treated as NORMAL. You are doing the opposite here and make the quiet majority of the LGBTQ community look bad in the eyes of people outside of your »friendly« little bubble.
It's not a spectrum, male and female relate to reproductive function, of which there are only 2. You are either the phenotype that's supposed to produce sperm or egg.
@@cutlery9831 Rail against gay people? What...- bro, I'm literally gay. How the heck did you get that from my comment? lol This has nothing to do with sexuality.
Even though I think it's great to let intersex people have more visibility some things she said where not true though, or we could say where scientifically inaccurate. So that might be the reason some people rated it with a thumbs dowm. I didn't but just because you find something enlightening doesn't mean every body feels the same about it.
I remember reading a book maybe 15 years ago called “Middlesex” which went into great depth of one person’s experience as an intersexed person. I highly recommend it.
If I'm hearing correctly, the main call is for greater tolerance by society of people that do not fit rigid definitions of biology and for doctors to improve their treatments of them. I think that can be accommodated without even getting to the debate about whether society needs to be overhauled more radically. I think there's calls for "things that need to change" that are incorrectly linked to the valid concerns of intersex people.
I wonder what is there to tolerate when she is physically perfect. She will be treated just like everyone else in every place because nobody even knows who is she underneath her undergarments.
This topic actually needs a degree of attention where teens should be educated about it in schools and colleges... Loved the way she took all the audience step by step.. 💖💖💖☮🏳️🌈
it would be great if schools actually gave proper education on the subject of puberty, sexuality, and gender at all. it would be even better if they mentioned that there are anomalies, and exceptions as well. people tend to only find out these things, when they meet someone with experience that tells them, and thats not guaranteed.
@@janetlapham3919 I do agree. Hopefully efforts from people like you and me will help spread awareness and clear out misunderstandings.. again appreciate your opinion..👍🏾🏳️🌈💖☮
It's amazing how there's so much we are still unaware of and things we still need to learn about our own species. Humans cannot accept differences and things out of our knowledge or the "norm". Accepting difference is such a challenge for our kind.
Miss K Is it amazing? Because we still don’t know the vast majority about how humans work (on a fundamental level). Anyone who was done serious medical research will tell you this if they are being honest.
@@PeterWW420 I guess it's not amazing, but sad. We can't be expected to know everything but I guess this is what internet is for. To find out what other people know around the world. If those people are willing and have the tools to share. I am however amazed to discover so many different things about our own kind. I like listening to most TED talks. They are interesting to me.
That's true in all senses of the saying, but what are you implying exactly? I'm a trans woman, and I have no delusion where I think I was born in the wrong body or don't want to admit my biological reality. Intersex and trans rights go hand in hand, and it has everything to do with society and nothing to do with having an illness or disability. Sure it may be a deviation caused by mutation in some cases, but what would our species be without genetic variation? I could have misunderstood you, but seeing the dislikes on this video makes me uncertain. Cheers :)
Johnny A. it’s not a joke though... the reality is the lack of information results in uneducated individuals murdering trans and intersex people for simply being themselves.. and it’s happening daily and just like this information, it’s all neglected.
@@MxStella which rights are we talking about here? This person lives like a woman, fully benefitting from the rights women have. So how is this a talk on rights?
Humans self discovery journey is still ongoing. In various aspects world is still flat and sun is still revolving earth. Thanks Emily for making blurred gender spectrum more visible.
It was a very well done talk by Emily about something that's not easy to discuss. That being said two percent of humans (one in 50) are born with an extra finger or toe (Polydactyly). That's the same percentage as those born intersex. We shouldn't be cruel toward intersex people, but it's not accurate to say that gender is a spectrum. 98 percent of people do fall into one of two genders just as 98 percent of humans have 10 fingers and toes. We have to orient our society around what the vast majority of people have in common for the sake of unity and utility, but hopefully we can find a way to do that while still treating those who don't fit in with dignity and respect.
I agree with your statement. For the vast majority of people they are clearly male or female regardless of what traits you have. Facial hair has nothing to do with gender sometimes as Native American men generally lack it.
There doesn't have to be an equal number of people on each point for it to be a spectrum. Intersex people are a real part of the spectrum and you have missed the entire point of the presentation.
Anytime a brave person talk about such common, but covered issue like this, they deserve a lot of kudos. I wish her, and any other non-binary individuals all the best. Emily is a hero, bringing this to light🙏🏽Emily rocks!
A very good talk. Especially nice that it did not develop into the "weird Biology-class-way of talking about sex", it was just interesting what she had to say - really does not deserve that may dislikes. Shows that many people are not ready to get out of this box
I understand how she feels about how intersex people are treated and there's definitely a lot of things society needs to learn about their way of looking at this issue. But saying male female construct is a facade is just stupid. If gender was not binary and everyone has their own shade of gender, how are we supposed to reproduce? Gender is not a spectrum, it is binary. If you don't fall in MALE or FEMALE boxes you are an outlier. And being an outlier should be OK. That is the issue. Not gender.
When there is more than two, then it's not binary. That we want simplicity does not make the world less complex. The world doesn't care about our comfort. And the world doesn't exist in binary. Our brains might but reality is much more complex than our brains.
We came up with the concept of what it means to be a man or woman, in which we then validate overlooking ALL of the people that naturally do not fit the specific requirements for those categories, even technically biologically with their own categories, or try to force them to adhere to the two when they just biologically can't be. We mutilate newborns in an attempt to 'correct' them often without parents' knowledge, with this outdated idea of preserving the two categories. That's why it's important to realize WHY it's not binary. It's harmful to every person who feels broken or wrong for biologically occurring a certain way. They're not outliers, we made up the rules that determine they would be regarded that way without any science to validate that.
First of all gender is a social construct. Second of all gender and sexual organs are different. Having female chromosomes and functioning testicles is different. Re type that stupid paragraph lol
Crying. I've never heard of intersexual. I asked Google for a definition, and it completely confused me. Someone sent this to me. Need to watch it with my boys, husband and anyone else willing to listen. THANK YOU.
thanks for this. I've have only heard of this from plant cultivation, i have never thought about it in humans. thanks for enlightening me. i feel for you, and other alike. best regards.
Well, yea? Aside from cultural norms (which is understandable and OK to have), there is no reason we shouldn't be. After all, we have stalls for a reason. Right?
If genitalia doesn't matter why are policies being made to try to have 50/50 ratios at some jobs? I mean, who cares what genitally does people have in jobs?
Thank you for this wonderful talk! Thank you for speaking out about being intersex. It’s so important. People can no longer hide behind being uneducated about these important issues as an excuse to be ignorant! Well done! 🙌🏻
@@Boces1988 I can't speak for the OP but I'm guessing she is equating intersex with the current trans movement... 😒 While a few of the issues (gender norms) are addressed and similar, they are otherwise entirely separate issues; the former being a science-based biological issue... the latter utter nonsense based on feelings. Neither group should be subjected to unnecessary surgeries or medical intervention.
Purely medical and scientific, no sjw buzzwords, all well laid out by the speaker. Annnd a 50% dislike ratio because conservative snowflakes get triggered by the title. Watch the video before you downvote
@Cameron Wilson... I suspect people dislike the video because it's a failure to understand the development of language. It has to be generalized.... and your comment is generalizing (binary) the downvotes. Ironically funny. Thanks for that. Irony thy name is Cameron Wilson.
I watched the whole video, I'm not a conservative and I don't think it was ''Purely medical and scientific'' Quite the opposite. It is pure ideology and not just unscientific but anti-science and utter nonsense. It's absurd.
THANK YOU EMILY!! Thank you for having the courage to share about yourself, thank you for becoming informed and for sharing that knowledge, thank you for opening my eyes and my mind. I hope you accomplish all you are working towards. I've shared on Facebook and hope to spread the word. OUR SOCIETY NEEDS THIS KNOWLEDGE!!!
Some people can't understand the meaning of the word 'exceptions' thus they assume everyone should be like them, have similar experience, similar ideologies and join them (literally what was her last words. Why?). Why can't other people have different opinions and beliefs. Also majority of people can't accept 'exceptions' thus this shaming thing. This world is so F up.
2%, 150 mIlLiOn pPl, liKe rEd hEaDs n RuSsIanS. WeRe nOt oUtLiErS Redheads are literally outliers but less so than intersex, and Russians are even less outliers but still far from the average person. If group A forms 49% and group B forms 49% and group C forms 2%, yes, 2% is an outlier. This can’t even compare to countries where the largest country is like 20% ish of the population and there are so many
Excellent talk!! I’m an asexual female and only figured out I was asexual a few years ago. I’m 61 years old. We are all human and different yet the same. Thank you for educating us.
She's got a point. Didn't agree with her at the start, but then I couldn't help but feel the pain these 2% of the population would feel when they are practically excluded from the society. Here in India, at least. Also I really don't get it, why so much hate in the comments?
I ain't see people hating here. Just some people disagreeing with her "There's a relatively rare condition that makes you be between the sexes, so the whole male and female stuff doesn't exist (although 98% are clearly divided into men and women) argument".
Nice talk in general. However the statement that 2% of population are intersex is questionable. The number is based on a controversial study by Fausto-Sterling published in 2000. Later studies (e.g. by L. Sax) suggested that in reality approximatly 0.018% of population quallify as intersex
I'm sorry, but it's incredibly arrogant to state that the binary view of gender is wrong. The fact that there are exceptions to the rule of male & female gender doesn't mean that binary gender isn't the norm. On top of that, as far as I know, they cannot procreate. The relatively small fraction of intersex people, no matter how big the amount might seem, is not convincing. While I agree that unnecessary, invasive surgery on a physiology that is poorly understood is likely to be harmful, this shouldn't have the effect of altering our perceptions of what typical gender is. Emily is an exception and in some ways is no doubt also an exceptional person. But her existence doesn't warrant radically rethinking our view of gender. The needs of the minority should not dictate to the majority beyond a few basic considerations.
I mean, how many exceptions to the rule do you need to have before you change the ruleset? If it was widely accepted that Nobody had red hair, or that Nobody lived in russia, period, then that would be obviously and demonstrably wrong, and thats pretty much the same number of "exceptions" to the rule statistically speaking. 2% of the population doesnt seem like much, but thats one in every 50 people, out of the worlds total population thats about One Hundred and Fifty Million People. In science, once an exception to a theory or law is found, and is reliable, the theory is thrown out, and replaced with something more correct, why should medical and societal understanding be any different?
Abnormality does not disprove the effectiveness of the boxes we use for understanding things like reproduction. I was born with esophageal atresia, specifically my esophagus was not attached to my stomach. Would it make sense to say that the human digestive systems exist on a spectrum? I wouldn’t. Her message about treating people better is perfect, but the word abnormal doesn’t need to be derogatory when it is true. Own it!
Prescient and erudite. Thank you for educating me on something I have little or no knowledge of. Kudos to you and Pidgeon. And, as I aside, I've listened to this but only watched a minute or two of; it helps me to focus on the presentation
the existence of birth defects doesn’t mean there’s more than two sexes. that’s like saying the number of legs people are born with is “on a spectrum.”
This really was an eye-opener for me. I had no idea that this was possible, but when I measure it against what I know about probability, it makes complete sense. Personally, I've never had a stake in the "gender identity" thing because I really don't place value in the preferences of a person unless those preferences are harmful to others. So you're heterosexual, homosexual, transgender, bisexual, have a beard and wear dresses, whatever?... Cool. No issues here. If you suck as a person, then I care--otherwise, that stuff is irrelevant. I did, however, believe that there were only two *biological* genders. This changes things for me. While I can't say that I buy into 26 genders (or whatever the number is; again, I never really saw it as relevant in my life, so I have had no reason to research it... Also, if you can't define it by two genders, how the heck do you define it by any whole number? What I got from this video is that it's a continuum rather than something you can pigeon-hole... Perhaps research will reveal otherwise), I can say that it has changed the way that I view the gender argument in general. I also want to express gratitude to Emily for sharing her story. Thank you!
@@revspikejonez I'm struggling to see what you are trying to say... I reread Tim's post 10 times. No evidence of your suggestion at all. Reads like a normal person who, in their day to day life, this topic doesn't matter. Just like the vast majority of people in the world. I'll hazard to guess the same for everyone in Tim's life. And, unless they are hostile about it, there is nothing wrong with that. Quit reading into things that aren't there.
so informational and important. the world definitely needs to know about this and you said so many things i wish i couldve been the first to say myself....im not intersex, but i do have an odd body because of pcos, though im non-binary. the boxes and stupid expectations and pain that the world gives to everyone are horrible and no one deserves it. thank you for speaking up about these things, the world doesnt deserve to be able to quiet the people who are different anymore, it never deserved it in the first place.
A human organism has between 0 and 4 legs, 1 or 2 heads and is sometimes born with their lungs and heart on the outside, these are just part of the incredible VARIETY of humans.
Of course there are parts of the population that are exceptions. That doesn't disprove the validity of using two boxes to categorize humans, or monkeys, or cattle or any species that reproduce sexually.
Shame is so underrated. It's such an effective social levelling mechanism. Society couldn't function without it so it's advisable that one learns to deal with it early on. Unfortunately most are not taught how to address and use it effectively in childhood. They then assume that there is no use for it and vilify the emotion. But like any other emotion, it's not the emotion that's at fault but the lack of personal self control. That lack of control may lead to undesirable behaviour. Due to the detrimental effects of such behaviour, society has formed different ways to mitigating the damage. Shame is but one of the many ways.
Based on that statistic, intersex individuals are more common than Muslims in the United States and roughly as common as Jews in the United States. Let that sink in.
Sex/gender is definitely a topic which needs to be addressed. Especially with the options available nowadays. I still remember that day of 'sex ed' at school, girls weren't taught about condoms, and guys weren't taught about menstruation... everybody needs a stronger understanding about ALL things 'sex'. Not easy to share something so personal and what appears to be, such a struggle. Good on her :)
At 12:45 , "women w/ hysteria". That happened to me. I suffered from a meningioma tumor on my spine at t-7 for yrs & yrs. It was complete agony. I lost my job, blew through all my savings & 401k, and my parents had to reverse mortgage their house. Finally they found the tumor, but not until I was completely paralyzed. Up until that point, I was just a "crazy woman" and needed psychiatric care. They even offered electric shock treatments, because I was complaining about strange pain & no one could find the reason, so obviously I was nuts right. My point is, the Drs ruined my life, & my parents life. Now, my parents can't even pass their home onto their grandchild because I was "hysterical". On top of all that, they caused AVN of my hips & right shoulder right after the tumor surgery, but still forced me to have to fight for that diagnosis as well. They killed my hip joints & right shoulder joint. So I've had to have hip replacements months after my tumor surgery. (Haven't done the shoulder yet). But no apologies, no, "oops", no "sorry we ruined you in more ways than one". I'm betting if I were a man at that time, they would have diagnosed me sooner & made more of an effort. THANK YOU Drs. But really, it's not Drs per se, it's just people. And we as people love to put each other down & stereotype each other. It feeds our egos & makes us feel superior
I experience a fair amount cognitive dissonance due to being intersexed myself . I was born with both testicles and ovaries but my 1 active partial ovary is more powerfull than the rest ( sorry boys ) . Giggles ...im intersexed , a redhead and type O negative 😊 I was aware I wasn't a boy and obviously wasn't a girl either and attempted to cut my penis off with scissors due to dysphoria at age 5 . At 46 , I was experiencing PMDD and not BPD like a psychiatrist diagnosed me as . Thank you for sharing your time and energy with us all. Angel hugs n Blessings to you and yours
I applaud you! Thank you for sharing! Such a rare mix of genetic traits has granted you a different and valuable perspective right from the start on how society values certain aspects of people. I think that a person with your characteristics can bring something completely unique and special to every discussion and, even though you may receive backlash for sharing your opinions, and maybe even experiences, your input is incredibly valuable. It may be rude of me to say this, but thank you for being alive. I hope you are living unapologetic-ally yourself!
the thing is, you are a different case, the foundation is biological base, not feeling base. i do have a problem with transgender people who born male or female and want to become something they cant, they destroy their body and want other to do the same.
I know right. It's lowkey gross, but people seem to think that, because intersex is a "real" thing (aka physical not emotional or psychological) it's deserving of pity and/or understanding, while trans people are just faking it and need to "grow out of a phase"
@@EricaLaurenx3 the thing is being transgender is not a mental illness, not by any real updated medical criteria. Gender dysmorphia is but gender dysmorphia is a mental illness because of the distress it causes the patient not because gender dysmorphia in itself is wrong. It's like having an anxiety disorder, anxiety is normal it's nit an issue unless it causes distress for long periods of time. Anyone calling it a mental disorder doesn't have correct information.
Thunder Thruster well if you’re talking about scientific facts, I don’t think you understand science. Science is based on discovery and from there we create a story that fits what we see. We create hypothesis and theories that works the best and fit in well. What we might know today might be wrong because we don’t know enough. Years and years ago, science was taught differently and people used to learn complete different things from what we learn today. So I’d say, you probably should check on your “facts” and maybe do your own investigation and research before you draw a valid conclusion
This was very interesting! Thank you for sharing! I don't understand how people would dislike this video - it was certainly interesting and presented by a very sympathetic young woman - To me it says much about the person who dislikes both.
@@grizzlek13 No they do not, but I have no idea why you mention that given the almost total lack of them in this video. Aww, did I piss on your virtue-signaling parade?
Pump the breaks a bit. Im only two minutes in and i hear "genetals dont actually tell you anything", referring to newborn babies. Well, no, they don't tell you anything about the baby's character ("whether they are kind or not", etc). That's because babies dont have a character yet. Character is built over time with experience and interaction with the environment and others. What it does tell you, and this has been essential in the survival of our species and undeniably important part of our history, IS whether or not that baby will be able to pass on your genes or not when they grow up. I'm not giving my opinion at all, but it is a fact that this has played a HUGE part in shaping modern humans. Even today/recently there are examples. Chinas 'one child policy', for example. I mean, ive probably gone on too much because it obviously doesn't tell you 'nothing'.
Great, informative talk! Thank you for sharing your personal story. Let's celebrate the whole spectrum of variation instead of desperately trying to fit everyone into a narrowly defined box; Especially when said boxes are irrelevant to a society's ability to function in the first place. :)
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk!
I really enjoy it!
Thanks for the brave and overall great talk!
Thank you 🙏🏻
You are amazing!
Thank you for doing this TED talk!
No, honestly, thank you, Emily! I understand that this was a difficult and, for some reason, controversial topic to discuss, even though talking about other LGBTQIA+ rights isn't. You are a beautiful well spoken individual addressing an issue that is important to every society and, eve, every species on this planet (even though most of the human population of earth feel like it isn't because it isn't happening to them). I give you a standing ovation and I am sharing this with everyone I know. Well done.
"We aren't new or rare, we are just invisible"
"We aren't problems that need to be fixed"
This.
@Swae Ocean You haven't stated, why. Just so YOU can feel better about yourself?
@Swae Ocean Uh, she's not a different species. Go back to school, you gave yourself away.
@Swae Ocean
Sources, please?
This is also a humanitarian issue.
These individuals are still human.
Are you suggesting to deny them a life in dignity?
@Swae Ocean
All what?
Okay, fine.
You pointed out what problems many of these genetic anomalies incur, and sounded as if the medical support they receive would be a bad thing, as it allows them to procreate and spread the problem.
While I appreciate the facts you pointed out to further understanding of the situation (and not to post hoc justify something, I presume), what you are saying is not as clear as you'd like.
@Swae Ocean
I think it is not to teach that these anomalies are normal but that they happen, and that they are nothing to be ashamed for.
This talk also calls into question, whether we really need the aspect of who matches whom to procreate in everyday conversation.
Sure, 2% may be a fringe phenomenon, but would it not have some advantages to be able to only bring this up, when you want?
But otherwise fair enough.
We just have to see how this pans out over generations.
Short sight as a species seems to be a big problem with that.
How do you get from someone having a genetic anomaly to them not being human?
This was different from what I expected. I have known about intersex people for most of my life, but this was educational, especially about unnecessary operations.
I didn't know about those operations, either. Medical students need their professors to spend a bit more time on the "first, do no harm" part.
@johnmburt1960 I agree 100%.
Intersex conditions aren't separate sexes.
@@blacktigerpaw1 pardon?🤔
@@politereminder6284 *Intersex conditions aren’t separate sexes.*
Hard to go public about your own body and how this relates to intersex. A very brave speech.
They don't want to offend hermaphrodites.
@@wesmcinerny4524 That is an outdated term. The updated term is intersex.
Ive always kind of confused of intersex, nobody talks about it, ppl just shrugs. Simple but eye opening talk!
@Glyn number 1 the article that you have listed is from Wiki which is an unreliable resource number 2 just because it's rare doesn't mean that it doesn't deserve talking or awareness
Yes, in health class they said that intersex people were born a male or female and their genitalia is just weirdly sized or shaped, I kind of knew it was wrong because I know more than the average 13 year old, but it was still messed up that they didn’t actually know stuff about that but were teaching it as the only type of intersex
@@anonymouschange287 my health class didn't even talk about that. I didn't know until i stumble upon the word in the internet.
It's still not all that special. Along the lines of people bickering about prevalence, "intersex" is a catch-all for a variety of conditions that affect sexual differentiation. That 2% statistic is very misleading as it encompasses every condition that results in intersex and every type of presentation therein.
@@custos3249 yeah i kno they're just ppl, but at least now I understand intersex a lil bit better.
One of the greatest things about TED is that when you look through the comments you actually find more ideas, costructive criticism, positive discussions. It shows how comments should always be used, and adds a lot to the video itself.
Agreed , normally on any other channel you'd find those looking for a reaction by commenting hate or just hating on the person for the hell of it
Occasionally, many top comments one finds are of the toxic and unhelpful kind. RUclips comments section is the last place I want to spend my day in. I'd rather talk to a real person face to face. The advantage of RUclips though is you can just ignore the toxic people for the most part. I'm just about to take a wine and cheese break myself from all the nonsense RUclips drama. Will resume later, but hopefully not too soon.
@Thunder Cat I agree. There is no constructive criticism here. I would say she meantions a lot of biological truths that she uses to prove a biological lie. But if we try to argue aganst the overall point of this talk we get shut out.
@@lee1davis1 What biological lie are you talking about? I would say it is a fact that this many people can be defined as intersex because of their genitalia, chromosomes and hormones.
Except the 2.5k dislikes that are probably Joe Rogan fans.
she just got the best deal no acne no body hair and no menstruation, also this takes a lot of balls
Well on the other hand she can't have children, but otherwise yes it's pretty cool actually
Omg, so true! 😭
@@LisaNarozhnykh neither can I, but I got hairy. Eww..
That would be great, those are 3 things I can't stand but still have to deal with. I don't wanna have children, so that would also be great, not worrying about that.
Thank you so much, wonderful person!
"the way we think about .... is wrong"
TED talk in a nutshell
I mean, that's basically the entire history of learning. We come up with a wrong explanation for some observed phenomena, then we study it more, improve our knowledge, and come up with a better wrong explanation. We went from Classical physics to Newtonian physics to Relativistic physics and now we're in Quantum Mechanics which is also wrong, but it's the best wrong we've come up with so far. And in another however many years, we'll have a new wrong physics model that's even better than QM.
@@omargoodman2999 true
No, wrong. The examples given are still right, they just don't explain everything. Science just doesn't throw what it has proven trough the window. it enriches it.@@ang-hell
@johnmburt1960 Define "true." The word "useful" would be more accurate. Basically, if you've heard of this before: all models are wrong, but some are useful.
This was an educational and endearing watch. I am enlightened a little on an aspect of humanity I was totally unware of.
It's interesting /telling how society (and the medical profession at times) can tell a person like Emily that she needs certain medical procedures, yet she doesn't, while discouraging trans people from pursuing the surgeries that they desire. Even more telling is the tendency to perform some of these needless surgeries on infants without their consent.
same thought struck me
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trans people aren't intersex
FEMININE MEN NEED ACCEPTANCE NOT CONVERSION
Wow I came to the complete opposite conclusion.
Im thinking how bad is it to encourage people (especially young people ) to undergo these invasive surgeries when someone who is intersex is happy she didn't get rid of her testicles that aren't even providing any normative function.
I think that's telling about the transgender craze.
I find it odd how the topic of intersex isn't taught in biology or science, currently I'm studying gender (both the biological, societal and neurological approach) in psychology (in Highschool! So exciting!). Not in biology where it would honestly make more sense for the topic to be in but im in a behavioural science class...
But more so, I have friends who are working towards medical degrees and, honestly, I'm so surprised that more of them aren't taking psychology than those that are, because if doctors- doctors with 8 year medical degrees are trying to convince intersex people to have invasive, potentially dangerous surgeries, they are undereducated. I'm 16, I'm not looking towards a degree in medicine or even scientific research and it seems to me that I know more about AIS and CAH than most of the doctors and nurses im friends with.
I really enjoyed this video, I love when people talk about 'hidden' issues and bring them to light, and I love it even more when these issues are talked about by either those who experience/experienced it or who are professionals/professors, it adds a little more authenticity than a teen with no doctorate or experience on a soapbox.
So a few points i have on this are as follows.
Biology in highschool is incredibly limited and kept to basic and common things needed to make further education i.e. uni easier and more understandable. So intersex being rarer and not building block of the large science of biology isnt considered of great importance in the highschool level.
Second point is that those medical degrees again tend to be a general medical degree with different majors and study focuses such as neurology so studying about something like gender theory and psychology doesnt link up as much with people looking to be surgeons. That 8 years is nothing compared to the further 10s of years they will continue to learn on the job and from further research and studies.
One of my housemates is stating his 3rd year of physics and also doing basic biology for the sake of becoming a forensics specialist and he said that specific to what hes learning and his path in uni he hasnt had to learn much about the in depth biology subjects such as sexual organs and gender albeit he has learned basics but not indepth because it was not specific to his course.
Remember that even in med school if those people had to learn 100% of everything about the human body they would be in school for the rest of their lives and we wouldnt have docotrs hence having many doctors specialised in different things.
I wish you the absolute best in life and continue thinking and learning you'll go so far with an open mind which you clearly have the world would be a better place with more people like you.
''doctors trying to convince intersex people to have invasive surgeries''
Sounds terrible. But it depends. No two cases are the same. And in her case (I imagine?) sound like she's functioning (perfectly?) and comfortable, content as a woman. I presume that ''dead organ'' inside you is not a good thing. No matter if it's ''healthy tissue'' it's still foreign object, without a function, which might cause serious troubles one day. Or not? And removal may be a minor procedure?
I am speculating. But i'm pretty sure about one of the reasons - she's refusing operation. She wants to keep her Balls. Because the whole thing is her identity. Thanks to ideology she's subscribing to.
''I find it odd how the topic of intersex isn't taught in biology or science...I'm 16, I'm not looking towards a degree in medicine or even scientific research and it seems to me that I know more about AIS and CAH than most of the doctors and nurses...''
Because humanities are infected with ideology masquerading as academia. Feminism (third wave) women's -gender -intersectionality studies...it's all ideology ! Far-left, authoritarian, illiberal pernicious ideology. (If you disagree your'e not just wrong. You are evil)
It makes 16y.old believe, think...that they ''know'' better then doctors, know more then modern medicine or scientists.
@@Aleksamson a great point here alek
This is one of the most endearing talks I've seen. I cannot understand why people would shame someone in regards to this. Thank you for sharing your video.
Lots of people (I'm talking tens of millions in America alone) will make fun of anyone who is different, in order to feel better about themselves.
The medical community has a lot of catching up to do.
@@cattiefogelsong6399 Catching up with who?
I am sure there are people who would make fun of this woman. However, not sure what you are referring to as I can't see any sarcastic comments here...
@@alcoholandfun243 I think that they're referring to the fact that some doctors take the approach of trying to conform an intersex person into female or male through unnecessary surgeries
Thank you for speaking out against harmful and unnecessary medical intervention to 'correct' or 'confirm' a person's healthy, normal body in order to conform it to stereotypes.
Stereotypes? You mean basic biology? Male and female components? Lmao we didn't invent these stereotypes, they have always existed.
If we could grow arms on someone born without them, is it wrong to do so because we are "forcing them to fit in with the norm?"
dont all transpeople conform to stereotypes when transitioning though
@@Alianger nope! every trans person's transition is different. some trans women have facial feminization surgery, where their face is altered to look more stereotypically feminine; many don't. some trans men have top surgery to remove their breasts; some don't. dysphoria is a wide spectrum and each individual who experiences it experiences it differently. many trans people feel no need to get certain procedures done and are comfortable with or accept the way their face or their shoulders or other parts of them are.
thataprilgirl but it isn’t normal
I enjoyed your talk a lot! You are one of the lucky ones, who was allowed to grow up as yourself. I am way older than you, nobody had any idea what intersex was, when I was born. Th did not like what they saw when they looked at my genitals, and decided to make them "male". I grew up as a boy, everything was fine, until puberty hit, I did not develop into a guy, but stayed pretty female. Nobody knew why, I was just considered to be different. I live my "male" life until it as discovered that i was more female than male. I transitioned at that time into the female I am today. I am a happy woman now, but I wish i could have been a female person all my life!
Keep up your good work, and help that people can grow up with their own life and not with a life somebody else decided they should have!
Linde, im so glad you are a happy woman now 💖 💖
You will never be a real woman.
Awesome video. When I saw the talk a few weeks ago on Ted Talks, i shared it with my friends and colleagues to easier explain that I have complete androgen Insensitivity syndrome (XY) . I wasnt diagnosed til I was 21 and I am now 37, and still struggle to come to terms with parts of it. But this video certainly gets people thinking and I applaud you for it
Did u follow your doctors' advice? How are you doing now?
So you have the same condition as the speaker?
Same condition as the speaker yes
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In some way you’re actually more woman than "normal" women, since "normal" women have "masculine" hormones and their bodies react to those.
"We aren't problems that need to be fixed. We just live in a society that needs to be enlightened."
One of the best Ted talks I have ever come across.
She has balls for getting up there and sharing her story with a crowd of strangers
You're terrible, haha! Take my like...
Gabe Kreider-Letterman
You should present your balls :)
Gabe Kreider-Letterman
Or prezent.
I mean,that's her joke but sure
As someone who is gender fluid, and with a lot of LGBT friends, thank you so much for sharing this. I learned more today, and people NEED to hear this story. So often society assumes we're all black or white, male or female, etc. They have no idea the wide spectrum of gender or sexual orientation that exists and why. To many assume it's a choice, and you're proof that it's not. We've always been taught that we are either male or female, but that's only because society has made it difficult or impossible to come out as being different. So thank you for having the courage to share your story. I shared this video several times and will continue to do so.
That Kilted Guy DIY Home Improvement as a fellow genderfluid person I agree so much with what you said and this video. Society needs to change if it claims we’re “not real” because we are and we’re here
Averynerdybookworm genderfluid friends! yay!
eyoo genderfluid gang
@@averynerdybookworm972 I agree
"We're not new, or rare. We're just invisible."
My favorite quote.
It's also not correct. Intersex individuals are rare, even if they aren't a problem.
@@SphincterOfDoom not as rare as you think though. Only 4 of all ~1000 of people I know, know that I'm intersex.
You likely know someone who's intersex in your life and they never tell you, so you'll never know and keep thinking that we're rare.
@@est9949 Things can exist and still be rare. It being salient for you doesn't make it not rare.
Thank you for that education. There is so much I do not know.
Stuart Cant
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
-Plato
🙂
Watches a marxist Ted Talk and thinks he was "educated". YIKES
@@nickc3856 what is Marxist about being intersex
How fortunate intersex is to have Emily as a spokes... person. She is poised and matter-of-fact.
Before this, I was unaware of the prevalence of intersex.
Yeah, you were unaware because her number (1.7%) is bullshit.
@@seybertooth9282 What is the number then? Tell me, I looked it up and that's what comes up. I grew up on a farm, and a lot of animals end are born intersex. We have three heifers who are "Freemartins" which means that they are intersex. THREE, OUT OF LIKE, 50 COWS. I wouldn't be surprised if there were more intersex people than estimated!
"Spokeswoman" is also a word.
I can tell you're trying to be inclusive by saying spokesperson (At least I hope that's what that was) but she refers to herself with female pronouns and seems comfortable presenting as a woman so I think it'd be better to refer to her as a spokeswoman. Or at least refer to her as a spokesperson without the "...". You made a mistake but learning is good!
Do you have to be so patronising ? @@misteryA555
No periods, no body hair and no acne. Sigh. Lucky lucky woman. ☹️
Deadass no body hair or acne
Man*
@@subzero4190295 Literally what about HER tells you shes a man?? You saw her in the street and youd be like hey sir? Lmfao okay 🙄🙄
Person*
@@kevinthebunny Transphobia is what tells them. Or at least intersexphobia? Is there a word for that?
I didn’t even know so many people were intersex. What strong people!
IKR. 2% of the population sounds small so we treat them as invisible and negligible; until you realize 2% of 340,000,000 million people is still MILLIONS of people. I’m too lazy to do the math but at least 8 million people. That’s bigger than some middle American states.
@@nairabee245 It's more like 0.02% of the population. 15% of all miscarriages are due to "intersex" Turner syndrome females.
Vlad Lu but that means there were never even born. So why would they be counted as a statistic of the percentage of intersex people in the US?
Not a whole lot I can say to this. But that's okay. Sometimes just listening is it's own contribution.
First time I've actually heard a logical argument against binary gendering.
Y'all haven't been listening then
@@Abba-dabba-doo, no, to the contrary, it would seem that assholes have been taking up too much of the available bandwidth.
The fact that people who don't have a dog in this fight actually click on the vid, listen, and then give real feed back, like -- "learned something" -- one might think would be a reason to (at the very least) not be a pos.
@@LifeAsANoun ME a pos? Your comment seemed to insinuate that the majority of people on Emily's side of the debate had not and could not make a sound argument. That's fallacious and pos move and it reeks of the dog whistling I've seen taking up a lot of the "available bandwidth" as well.
I'm pointing out that Emily is not even close to the first person to make these arguments or bring any of this to the table. If she's the first person you're hearing it from that's perfectly fine, but it's worth pointing out that this stuff has been widely known for a while, whether or not you decided to listen to Emily and others with her POV earlier.
@@Abba-dabba-doo Yea, can confirm, I learned nothing from the video, not because it was wrong, but because I already knew all of this. I''m not sure we can ever really get a society where people understand basic things though, since there's a lot of basic things to know, and lots of people. Internet sure helps with spread of knowledge, but big portion of people just seek entertainment, so they never learn these things, or if they do learn, it's when they're already old. So most of all people will always be stupid. However, if something becomes mainstream then there's a social pressure to conform to those ideas, so any given idea has a possibility to be known to most people. It's just that people will come up with new things to shame others with then.
Did we hear a logical argument against binary gendering? She seemed to identify as female, dress feminine, and use female pronouns, even while acknowledging that she has XY chromosomes and striated testes. Did she argue for a third gender? Didn’t seem like she did. She argued for better biology classes and better educated medical professionals, which I agree with. And she is correct, intersex is something we should be taught about. The question though is how should we talk about it? Intersex is not a third gender. Intersex is not an agenda. Intersex is a catch-all term for human sexual biology that falls outside of norm. Not all intersex are XY chromosomal females, nor is intersex a Banner for transgenderism. I concur that students should be educated on the diversity of differences that fall between biological male and biological female. I even concur that we need to develop better language to communicate this diversity. We also need to recognize that a man transitioning into a woman or vis versa is still a binary set of male-female, just as intersex consists of males with female characteristics and females with Male characteristics. We even know that neuter is a possibility, where the individual displays no sexual biological morphology. What we don’t need is forced language change, laws requiring use of forced language, nor parents transitioning their children because our culture is undergoing a societal contagion. We need better education, better awareness, and an open discussion that doesn’t push agendas.
Thank you Mrs. Quinn for sharing an honest assessment of our human diversity!
A system that correctly classifies 98% of the population is not a bad system. It's not perfect, we could do better, but to say it's useless is a little strong for me.
A system that leaves 2% of the population left for dead, gives the rest of the population the tools to marginalized them, and has a major stochastic influence on ignorance and discrimination, is not a good system. Newtonian physics are also good for 99% of the things you need to work with, but if you want your precious GPS and other things you take for granted to actually work, you _need_ Relativity.
@@katrinal353 I don't deny that atrocities have been committed in the name of this system, but that's humans for you. We are extremely good at dividing people into ingroups and outgroups and demonizing and outgroup and praising (angelizing?) the ingroup.
And Newtonian gravity has taken us to the planets of the solar system. _As long as you understand the limitations of the system, and understand when it is applicable and when it is not, it is not an obstacle._ There's a lesson there.
@S C No one said it's useless. Nukes aren't useless either. I'm just saying, the "98%" argument is silly and actually tyrannical.
Katrina L To be clear, the “system” we’re talking about here is naming things/groups?
@@katrinal353 To clarify, I don't want to replace the gender binary - I think it still functions fairly well - I want to complete it with a set of categories for the different types of intersex.
Who else wanted to give her a hug? Very brave!
Me, not only one but many many hugs.
Him. It's a him. Xy is him. No menstruation, no female anything except man boobs and a vagina. Still male. I'll formed male.
I certainly did, many of them in fact.
@@topaznora2055 She is intersex so dosen't fit in your boxes. Just saying.
@@topaznora2055I guess you are the one who disliked it
One of the best TED talks I have heard. She doesn't shame or insult anyone,she tried to stay neutral and mainly state facts. Truly educational video and scientifically correct. I am truly astonished 😍
I just wish people didn't put us in a box with a label. I am proud of Emily speaking out for us.
Isn't it a coincidence that no religion has ever communicated that kind of educational revelations from their gods, but would rather share the prejudices of the unaware and uneducated people of the past?
The bible infact talks about hermaphrodites and says they should be treated like anyone else
@@veganchocolatemousse where exactly does the bible mention hermaphrodites?
In Abrahamic faiths yes... not true in Sanatan Dharma (aka Hinduism) and several Native American faiths as well.
Just because you don’t know of it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Plenty of religions mention it, if they don’t, it doesn’t make them ignorant, since it’s a very rare phenomena and there are thousands of things that are more common that aren’t addressed. Nothing has changed except for how you CHOOSE to view it. Same with most things in life, there’s no added new complications, we just want to see things above ground instead of below it because society now is more considerate of others feelings. All modern biology tells us that hormonal stimulus is needed to create gene expression, the consequences of those gene expressions are the same regardless of whether you know that or not.
@@pa21thebeast "Plenty of religions mention it" - I doubt that - which ones, and where do they mention it?
And of course it doesn't make them ignorant, it's "only" another example that nothing scientific from the future has ever been foretold by any religion. Isn't that a weird coincidence that God himself passed the knowledge on so many things that were perfectly parallel to people's current knowledge of that time?
It's just as if there was no God involved at all...
"The more you know the less you fear".This is one of the best Ted Talks I have ever heard.Thank You Emily.I will join You.
Very informative and powerful speech. Emily really drove the point of sexual differences home with her statement about shame. Thanks Emily for sharing this with us and bringing healing to people who are struggling.
Get it Emily!!! Thanks for being our intersex superhero!!!
He is a mess. So are you.
It's a shame that so many people feel the need to change their bodies in order to "fit" into society's mold of what is female and what is male. She is right, we all fall on a spectrum. We are very far away from learning to accept people as they are. I'm very happy that I heard this, it helped me understand some of the issues that surround LGBTQ+ people.
If genders wouldn’t exist, so wouldn’t you and I! It’s not a spectrum. LGBTQABCXYZwhatever is the exception not the norm. You all are not helping the cause here. In general, people, no matter the gender, skin colour, ethnicity, religion, nationality, just want to be treated as NORMAL. You are doing the opposite here and make the quiet majority of the LGBTQ community look bad in the eyes of people outside of your »friendly« little bubble.
@@mules8662 What on earth are you smoking?
It's not a spectrum, male and female relate to reproductive function, of which there are only 2. You are either the phenotype that's supposed to produce sperm or egg.
@@AlquimistEd Did you watch the talk or did you just skip to the comments in order to rail against gay people?
@@cutlery9831 Rail against gay people? What...- bro, I'm literally gay. How the heck did you get that from my comment? lol
This has nothing to do with sexuality.
Weird flex but okay
...groovy...
Grow TF up boi 😑
@@waynejohnson298 she said she got balls. that's kind of a flex.
🤣
It's civilizationally embarrassing that 2.4K people rate this profoundly enlightened talk with a thumbs down.
I wonder how many of them cannot simply accept reality over bronze age dogma.
@@victordelarosa4599 lol true
Even though I think it's great to let intersex people have more visibility some things she said where not true though, or we could say where scientifically inaccurate. So that might be the reason some people rated it with a thumbs dowm. I didn't but just because you find something enlightening doesn't mean every body feels the same about it.
I remember reading a book maybe 15 years ago called “Middlesex” which went into great depth of one person’s experience as an intersexed person. I highly recommend it.
If I'm hearing correctly, the main call is for greater tolerance by society of people that do not fit rigid definitions of biology and for doctors to improve their treatments of them. I think that can be accommodated without even getting to the debate about whether society needs to be overhauled more radically. I think there's calls for "things that need to change" that are incorrectly linked to the valid concerns of intersex people.
Alex Smith oh my god this is the most sensible thing I’ve ever read. Thank you.
Can you be more specific? What is being "incorrectly linked to the valid concerns of intersex people"?
Rigid definitions of biology? You mean doctors distinguishing between male and female. The only two possible genders that are determined BIOLOGICALLY.
I wonder what is there to tolerate when she is physically perfect. She will be treated just like everyone else in every place because nobody even knows who is she underneath her undergarments.
@@FallonLeclerc Did you watch the video? In which she talks about how she and other people aren't biologically male or female?
This topic actually needs a degree of attention where teens should be educated about it in schools and colleges... Loved the way she took all the audience step by step.. 💖💖💖☮🏳️🌈
it would be great if schools actually gave proper education on the subject of puberty, sexuality, and gender at all. it would be even better if they mentioned that there are anomalies, and exceptions as well. people tend to only find out these things, when they meet someone with experience that tells them, and thats not guaranteed.
@@janetlapham3919 I do agree. Hopefully efforts from people like you and me will help spread awareness and clear out misunderstandings.. again appreciate your opinion..👍🏾🏳️🌈💖☮
The real secret of hapiness is being humble and realize we know very little. Big respect to you, thanks for this great tslk.
It's amazing how there's so much we are still unaware of and things we still need to learn about our own species. Humans cannot accept differences and things out of our knowledge or the "norm". Accepting difference is such a challenge for our kind.
Miss K Is it amazing? Because we still don’t know the vast majority about how humans work (on a fundamental level). Anyone who was done serious medical research will tell you this if they are being honest.
@@PeterWW420 I guess it's not amazing, but sad. We can't be expected to know everything but I guess this is what internet is for. To find out what other people know around the world. If those people are willing and have the tools to share. I am however amazed to discover so many different things about our own kind. I like listening to most TED talks. They are interesting to me.
This needs more attention. I don't fit the binary and never have.
i thought i was well-versed on intersexuality but i didn't know half of this
To be fair half of this was made up...
@@Joe-nh8eq No proof from you obviously.
Summary: "Facts don't care about your feelings." 9:56
That's true in all senses of the saying, but what are you implying exactly? I'm a trans woman, and I have no delusion where I think I was born in the wrong body or don't want to admit my biological reality. Intersex and trans rights go hand in hand, and it has everything to do with society and nothing to do with having an illness or disability. Sure it may be a deviation caused by mutation in some cases, but what would our species be without genetic variation? I could have misunderstood you, but seeing the dislikes on this video makes me uncertain. Cheers :)
Emily Productions just some hypocritical Ben Shapiro fan boy
Facts are constructs shaped by feelings. You can't escape feelings, they are intrinsic to your human nature...
Johnny A. it’s not a joke though... the reality is the lack of information results in uneducated individuals murdering trans and intersex people for simply being themselves.. and it’s happening daily and just like this information, it’s all neglected.
@@MxStella which rights are we talking about here? This person lives like a woman, fully benefitting from the rights women have. So how is this a talk on rights?
Humans self discovery journey is still ongoing. In various aspects world is still flat and sun is still revolving earth. Thanks Emily for making blurred gender spectrum more visible.
It was a very well done talk by Emily about something that's not easy to discuss. That being said two percent of humans (one in 50) are born with an extra finger or toe (Polydactyly). That's the same percentage as those born intersex. We shouldn't be cruel toward intersex people, but it's not accurate to say that gender is a spectrum. 98 percent of people do fall into one of two genders just as 98 percent of humans have 10 fingers and toes. We have to orient our society around what the vast majority of people have in common for the sake of unity and utility, but hopefully we can find a way to do that while still treating those who don't fit in with dignity and respect.
I agree with your statement. For the vast majority of people they are clearly male or female regardless of what traits you have. Facial hair has nothing to do with gender sometimes as Native American men generally lack it.
There doesn't have to be an equal number of people on each point for it to be a spectrum. Intersex people are a real part of the spectrum and you have missed the entire point of the presentation.
Anytime a brave person talk about such common, but covered issue like this, they deserve a lot of kudos. I wish her, and any other non-binary individuals all the best. Emily is a hero, bringing this to light🙏🏽Emily rocks!
A very good talk.
Especially nice that it did not develop into the "weird Biology-class-way of talking about sex", it was just interesting what she had to say - really does not deserve that may dislikes. Shows that many people are not ready to get out of this box
I understand how she feels about how intersex people are treated and there's definitely a lot of things society needs to learn about their way of looking at this issue. But saying male female construct is a facade is just stupid. If gender was not binary and everyone has their own shade of gender, how are we supposed to reproduce? Gender is not a spectrum, it is binary. If you don't fall in MALE or FEMALE boxes you are an outlier. And being an outlier should be OK. That is the issue. Not gender.
People will still be able to have children even if we do away with the gender norms? It's not going to get rid of the ability to reproduce.
When there is more than two, then it's not binary. That we want simplicity does not make the world less complex. The world doesn't care about our comfort. And the world doesn't exist in binary. Our brains might but reality is much more complex than our brains.
We came up with the concept of what it means to be a man or woman, in which we then validate overlooking ALL of the people that naturally do not fit the specific requirements for those categories, even technically biologically with their own categories, or try to force them to adhere to the two when they just biologically can't be. We mutilate newborns in an attempt to 'correct' them often without parents' knowledge, with this outdated idea of preserving the two categories. That's why it's important to realize WHY it's not binary. It's harmful to every person who feels broken or wrong for biologically occurring a certain way. They're not outliers, we made up the rules that determine they would be regarded that way without any science to validate that.
First of all gender is a social construct. Second of all gender and sexual organs are different. Having female chromosomes and functioning testicles is different. Re type that stupid paragraph lol
I wish the whole world would watch this
Crying. I've never heard of intersexual. I asked Google for a definition, and it completely confused me. Someone sent this to me. Need to watch it with my boys, husband and anyone else willing to listen. THANK YOU.
thanks for this.
I've have only heard of this from plant cultivation,
i have never thought about it in humans.
thanks for enlightening me.
i feel for you, and other alike.
best regards.
So if genitalia don’t matter, shouldn’t we all be using the same bathroom regardless of genitalia?
It would be a more efficient, architecturally.
Well, yea? Aside from cultural norms (which is understandable and OK to have), there is no reason we shouldn't be. After all, we have stalls for a reason. Right?
It’s a bathroom when you gotta go you gotta go.
Yeah, it wouldn't be a problem.
If genitalia doesn't matter why are policies being made to try to have 50/50 ratios at some jobs? I mean, who cares what genitally does people have in jobs?
Thank you for this wonderful talk! Thank you for speaking out about being intersex. It’s so important. People can no longer hide behind being uneducated about these important issues as an excuse to be ignorant!
Well done! 🙌🏻
And why do we need to be educated about a small group of intersex people?
Leslie Sanchez to prevent IGNORANCE!!
@@Boces1988 I can't speak for the OP but I'm guessing she is equating intersex with the current trans movement... 😒 While a few of the issues (gender norms) are addressed and similar, they are otherwise entirely separate issues; the former being a science-based biological issue... the latter utter nonsense based on feelings. Neither group should be subjected to unnecessary surgeries or medical intervention.
Purely medical and scientific, no sjw buzzwords, all well laid out by the speaker. Annnd a 50% dislike ratio because conservative snowflakes get triggered by the title. Watch the video before you downvote
@Cameron Wilson... I suspect people dislike the video because it's a failure to understand the development of language. It has to be generalized.... and your comment is generalizing (binary) the downvotes. Ironically funny. Thanks for that. Irony thy name is Cameron Wilson.
I watched the whole video, I'm not a conservative and I don't think it was ''Purely medical and scientific'' Quite the opposite. It is pure ideology and not just unscientific but anti-science and utter nonsense. It's absurd.
This was a great talk tysm for putting yourself out there like that. We really need more intersex awareness.
SO eye opening Emily!! You’re amazing and I loved listening to your ted talk!!!
THANK YOU EMILY!! Thank you for having the courage to share about yourself, thank you for becoming informed and for sharing that knowledge, thank you for opening my eyes and my mind. I hope you accomplish all you are working towards. I've shared on Facebook and hope to spread the word. OUR SOCIETY NEEDS THIS KNOWLEDGE!!!
Of course I’ll join you. Thanks for bringing awareness to all of this information.
Some people can't understand the meaning of the word 'exceptions' thus they assume everyone should be like them, have similar experience, similar ideologies and join them (literally what was her last words. Why?). Why can't other people have different opinions and beliefs.
Also majority of people can't accept 'exceptions' thus this shaming thing. This world is so F up.
Anish Prakash she is part of the exception but still comes with spectrum theories because of her case … 😭😭
2%, 150 mIlLiOn pPl, liKe rEd hEaDs n RuSsIanS. WeRe nOt oUtLiErS
Redheads are literally outliers but less so than intersex, and Russians are even less outliers but still far from the average person.
If group A forms 49% and group B forms 49% and group C forms 2%, yes, 2% is an outlier. This can’t even compare to countries where the largest country is like 20% ish of the population and there are so many
I think we can all agree that she's got balls; both literally and figuratively.
Excellent talk!! I’m an asexual female and only figured out I was asexual a few years ago. I’m 61 years old. We are all human and different yet the same. Thank you for educating us.
150 million is 2% of a world population of 7.7 billion.
Incredible-opened the eyes of this 58-year old woman!
I am a 2% person. I am a redhead. We are no more anomalies than intersex individuals.
She's got a point. Didn't agree with her at the start, but then I couldn't help but feel the pain these 2% of the population would feel when they are practically excluded from the society. Here in India, at least. Also I really don't get it, why so much hate in the comments?
2%? Did she say that number?
Edit: Oh yeah, she did. I wonder where she got that.
I ain't see people hating here.
Just some people disagreeing with her "There's a relatively rare condition that makes you be between the sexes, so the whole male and female stuff doesn't exist (although 98% are clearly divided into men and women) argument".
Nice talk in general. However the statement that 2% of population are intersex is questionable. The number is based on a controversial study by Fausto-Sterling published in 2000. Later studies (e.g. by L. Sax) suggested that in reality approximatly 0.018% of population quallify as intersex
Lets just say 0.5 %of all people
@@lordtullus9942 Based on what?
Okay today i learned something new... This was some informative talk ..
I'm sorry, but it's incredibly arrogant to state that the binary view of gender is wrong.
The fact that there are exceptions to the rule of male & female gender doesn't mean that binary gender isn't the norm. On top of that, as far as I know, they cannot procreate.
The relatively small fraction of intersex people, no matter how big the amount might seem, is not convincing.
While I agree that unnecessary, invasive surgery on a physiology that is poorly understood is likely to be harmful, this shouldn't have the effect of altering our perceptions of what typical gender is.
Emily is an exception and in some ways is no doubt also an exceptional person. But her existence doesn't warrant radically rethinking our view of gender. The needs of the minority should not dictate to the majority beyond a few basic considerations.
I mean, how many exceptions to the rule do you need to have before you change the ruleset? If it was widely accepted that Nobody had red hair, or that Nobody lived in russia, period, then that would be obviously and demonstrably wrong, and thats pretty much the same number of "exceptions" to the rule statistically speaking. 2% of the population doesnt seem like much, but thats one in every 50 people, out of the worlds total population thats about One Hundred and Fifty Million People.
In science, once an exception to a theory or law is found, and is reliable, the theory is thrown out, and replaced with something more correct, why should medical and societal understanding be any different?
Abnormality does not disprove the effectiveness of the boxes we use for understanding things like reproduction.
I was born with esophageal atresia, specifically my esophagus was not attached to my stomach. Would it make sense to say that the human digestive systems exist on a spectrum? I wouldn’t.
Her message about treating people better is perfect, but the word abnormal doesn’t need to be derogatory when it is true. Own it!
"What do you mean you want to be treated as a human being first?" "Own it freak" lololololololololo
When the point of the ted talk past over your head
@@jirafita123ify Ur argument is called strawman
How brave to do this talk. And how important it is to talk about the importance of not putting people in boxes. 💝🌟✨
Great video, this is a topic that a lot of people aren’t that informed on.
Prescient and erudite. Thank you for educating me on something I have little or no knowledge of. Kudos to you and Pidgeon. And, as I aside, I've listened to this but only watched a minute or two of; it helps me to focus on the presentation
the existence of birth defects doesn’t mean there’s more than two sexes. that’s like saying the number of legs people are born with is “on a spectrum.”
Thank you
It's not birth defects, it's a simple difference in biology. How you can witness that and still stay ignorant is beyond me.
Thank you for stating facts!
TheCynicalMiscreant Saying people are ignorant when they are stating facts is.... well... ignorant and arrogant.
Dont confuse emotions with facts.
Don’t fix what is not broken
Right, life creates anomalies.. doesn't mean binary gendering doesn't represent a legitimate utility for most people.
This really was an eye-opener for me. I had no idea that this was possible, but when I measure it against what I know about probability, it makes complete sense. Personally, I've never had a stake in the "gender identity" thing because I really don't place value in the preferences of a person unless those preferences are harmful to others. So you're heterosexual, homosexual, transgender, bisexual, have a beard and wear dresses, whatever?... Cool. No issues here. If you suck as a person, then I care--otherwise, that stuff is irrelevant. I did, however, believe that there were only two *biological* genders. This changes things for me. While I can't say that I buy into 26 genders (or whatever the number is; again, I never really saw it as relevant in my life, so I have had no reason to research it... Also, if you can't define it by two genders, how the heck do you define it by any whole number? What I got from this video is that it's a continuum rather than something you can pigeon-hole... Perhaps research will reveal otherwise), I can say that it has changed the way that I view the gender argument in general. I also want to express gratitude to Emily for sharing her story. Thank you!
Sounds like you';ve only heard about gender from right wing bigots.
@@revspikejonez I'm struggling to see what you are trying to say... I reread Tim's post 10 times. No evidence of your suggestion at all. Reads like a normal person who, in their day to day life, this topic doesn't matter. Just like the vast majority of people in the world. I'll hazard to guess the same for everyone in Tim's life. And, unless they are hostile about it, there is nothing wrong with that. Quit reading into things that aren't there.
Yes, although very rare, there is intersex - a combo of the TWO sexes (and TWO genders) male and female.
That last part touched my soul..fitting into a box. I support!!
so informational and important. the world definitely needs to know about this and you said so many things i wish i couldve been the first to say myself....im not intersex, but i do have an odd body because of pcos, though im non-binary. the boxes and stupid expectations and pain that the world gives to everyone are horrible and no one deserves it.
thank you for speaking up about these things, the world doesnt deserve to be able to quiet the people who are different anymore, it never deserved it in the first place.
A human organism has between 0 and 4 legs, 1 or 2 heads and is sometimes born with their lungs and heart on the outside, these are just part of the incredible VARIETY of humans.
Of course there are parts of the population that are exceptions. That doesn't disprove the validity of using two boxes to categorize humans, or monkeys, or cattle or any species that reproduce sexually.
The narcissism within the medical profession has the whole world skewed. It pains me to know they do this to people.
She makes a lot of sense to me. But sadly, I think there will always be ignorant ppl who refuse to get educated.
Shame is so underrated. It's such an effective social levelling mechanism. Society couldn't function without it so it's advisable that one learns to deal with it early on. Unfortunately most are not taught how to address and use it effectively in childhood. They then assume that there is no use for it and vilify the emotion.
But like any other emotion, it's not the emotion that's at fault but the lack of personal self control. That lack of control may lead to undesirable behaviour. Due to the detrimental effects of such behaviour, society has formed different ways to mitigating the damage. Shame is but one of the many ways.
This girl is HILARIOUS and so smart well done
Based on that statistic, intersex individuals are more common than Muslims in the United States and roughly as common as Jews in the United States. Let that sink in.
Sex/gender is definitely a topic which needs to be addressed. Especially with the options available nowadays. I still remember that day of 'sex ed' at school, girls weren't taught about condoms, and guys weren't taught about menstruation... everybody needs a stronger understanding about ALL things 'sex'. Not easy to share something so personal and what appears to be, such a struggle. Good on her :)
Thank you Emily for making this extremely enlightening video!
I'm 46 years old. It's been a long journey and still going as intersex XXY
Is it hard for you do you identify as a Male
At 12:45 , "women w/ hysteria". That happened to me. I suffered from a meningioma tumor on my spine at t-7 for yrs & yrs. It was complete agony. I lost my job, blew through all my savings & 401k, and my parents had to reverse mortgage their house. Finally they found the tumor, but not until I was completely paralyzed. Up until that point, I was just a "crazy woman" and needed psychiatric care. They even offered electric shock treatments, because I was complaining about strange pain & no one could find the reason, so obviously I was nuts right. My point is, the Drs ruined my life, & my parents life. Now, my parents can't even pass their home onto their grandchild because I was "hysterical". On top of all that, they caused AVN of my hips & right shoulder right after the tumor surgery, but still forced me to have to fight for that diagnosis as well. They killed my hip joints & right shoulder joint. So I've had to have hip replacements months after my tumor surgery. (Haven't done the shoulder yet). But no apologies, no, "oops", no "sorry we ruined you in more ways than one". I'm betting if I were a man at that time, they would have diagnosed me sooner & made more of an effort. THANK YOU Drs. But really, it's not Drs per se, it's just people. And we as people love to put each other down & stereotype each other. It feeds our egos & makes us feel superior
I experience a fair amount cognitive dissonance due to being intersexed myself . I was born with both testicles and ovaries but my 1 active partial ovary is more powerfull than the rest ( sorry boys ) .
Giggles ...im intersexed , a redhead and type O negative 😊
I was aware I wasn't a boy and obviously wasn't a girl either and attempted to cut my penis off with scissors due to dysphoria at age 5 .
At 46 , I was experiencing PMDD and not BPD like a psychiatrist diagnosed me as .
Thank you for sharing your time and energy with us all.
Angel hugs n Blessings to you and yours
I applaud you! Thank you for sharing! Such a rare mix of genetic traits has granted you a different and valuable perspective right from the start on how society values certain aspects of people. I think that a person with your characteristics can bring something completely unique and special to every discussion and, even though you may receive backlash for sharing your opinions, and maybe even experiences, your input is incredibly valuable. It may be rude of me to say this, but thank you for being alive. I hope you are living unapologetic-ally yourself!
So you were born with 1 testicle and 1 ovary ? I hope it is not too intimate as a question
Thank you for sharing, wish you the best.
I'm curious, how does that affect your sexual preference, do you like male more or female more?
the thing is, you are a different case, the foundation is biological base, not feeling base.
i do have a problem with transgender people who born male or female and want to become something they cant, they destroy their body and want other to do the same.
@@Samuel-fp1ul
Actually 2 testicles and 2 ovaries
The girl's got balls.
Oh I see, the comment section for an intersex video is all nice and civil but the transgender ones aren't.
I know right. It's lowkey gross, but people seem to think that, because intersex is a "real" thing (aka physical not emotional or psychological) it's deserving of pity and/or understanding, while trans people are just faking it and need to "grow out of a phase"
It's because there's still a stigma around it being a mental disorder and not a physical scientific fact... it's really sad
@@EricaLaurenx3 the thing is being transgender is not a mental illness, not by any real updated medical criteria. Gender dysmorphia is but gender dysmorphia is a mental illness because of the distress it causes the patient not because gender dysmorphia in itself is wrong. It's like having an anxiety disorder, anxiety is normal it's nit an issue unless it causes distress for long periods of time. Anyone calling it a mental disorder doesn't have correct information.
Cause this is actually real and proven scientifically. Just cause I feel Asian, doesn’t mean I am. And don’t get all butt hurt. It’s just facts
Thunder Thruster well if you’re talking about scientific facts, I don’t think you understand science. Science is based on discovery and from there we create a story that fits what we see. We create hypothesis and theories that works the best and fit in well. What we might know today might be wrong because we don’t know enough. Years and years ago, science was taught differently and people used to learn complete different things from what we learn today. So I’d say, you probably should check on your “facts” and maybe do your own investigation and research before you draw a valid conclusion
Actually enlightening, changed my perception as with many others in the comments. Well presented too! Thanks!
I won't lie....I had no idea! You have my support!
Thank you for the informative talk! I love hearing others experiences, especially when we don't get to here them often.
This was very interesting! Thank you for sharing!
I don't understand how people would dislike this video - it was certainly interesting and presented by a very sympathetic young woman - To me it says much about the person who dislikes both.
I think what they dislike are all the virtue-signaling SJW hipsters cheering this video, you know, like you.
@@seybertooth9282 Facts don't care about your feelings, snowflake. Lol
@@grizzlek13 No they do not, but I have no idea why you mention that given the almost total lack of them in this video. Aww, did I piss on your virtue-signaling parade?
Pump the breaks a bit. Im only two minutes in and i hear "genetals dont actually tell you anything", referring to newborn babies. Well, no, they don't tell you anything about the baby's character ("whether they are kind or not", etc). That's because babies dont have a character yet. Character is built over time with experience and interaction with the environment and others. What it does tell you, and this has been essential in the survival of our species and undeniably important part of our history, IS whether or not that baby will be able to pass on your genes or not when they grow up. I'm not giving my opinion at all, but it is a fact that this has played a HUGE part in shaping modern humans. Even today/recently there are examples. Chinas 'one child policy', for example. I mean, ive probably gone on too much because it obviously doesn't tell you 'nothing'.
Great, informative talk! Thank you for sharing your personal story. Let's celebrate the whole spectrum of variation instead of desperately trying to fit everyone into a narrowly defined box; Especially when said boxes are irrelevant to a society's ability to function in the first place. :)
I’m grateful for her courage. I can see the worlds views changing because of her.