Hanne gaby odiele naked - Model Hanne Gaby Odiele on Being Intersex

Most of the time, the children and their parents do not fully understand the situation or the possible repercussions of these procedures.

Memories from then often haunt me.

You think you are alone—there is no one like you—and then you get to talk to other intersex people! She has been on hormone-replacement therapy—low-level birth control pills—since she was ten.

Much of these procedures that intersex children are subjected to are simply cosmetic and carried out so they can fit into heteronormative categories.