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A candid, provocative, and eye-opening memoir of gender id, self-acceptance, and love from one of the world's foremost intersex activists. My name is Hida Viloria. I grew up as a woman but discovered at a age that my body looked different. Having endured an often turbulent home life as a kid, there were often when I felt scared and alone, especially given my fascination to women. But unlike most people in the first world who are created intersex - so this means they have got genitals, reproductive organs, hormones, and/or chromosomal patterns that do not fit standard meanings of female or male - I was raised in the body I was born with because my parents did not have my sex characteristics surgically transformed at delivery. It wasn't until I had been 26 and encountered the term intersex in a SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA newspaper that we finally got a name for my difference. That's whenever i started to explore what it means to reside in the space between genders - to be both and neither. I attempted living as a womanly female, an androgynous person, and even for a short period of time as a man. Good friends would not identify me, and homosexual men would strike on me. My gender fluidity was enjoyable and in lots of ways freeing - but it could also be isolating. I needed to know if there have been other intersex people like me, however when I finally found an intersex community to hook up with I had been stunned, and then deeply annoyed, to learn that most of individuals I met have been scarred, both in physical form and psychologically, by newborn surgeries and hormone treatments meant to "correct" their systems. Realizing that the invisibility of intersex people in population facilitated these techniques, I managed to get my objective to bring a finish to it - and became one of the first visitors to voluntarily turn out as intersex at a nationwide and then international level. Given birth to Both is the storyplot of my lifelong quest toward finding love and embracing my traditional identity in a world that insists on categorizing people into either/or and of my decades-long deal with for human rights and equality for intersex people just about everywhere.
