An intersex author on being called 'Baby' and resisting erasure under Trump's binary gender executive order
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Chris Arnone
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A personal essay by an intersex author who was born with ambiguous genitalia and called "Baby" for three days while awaiting chromosome testing. The article connects this personal experience to Trump's 2025 executive order defining gender and sex as strictly binary, which the author argues attempts to erase intersex people. The author, part of the roughly 1.7% of the population born intersex, explains why they couldn't remain silent in the face of this political erasure.
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· 3 pulledFor three days, my parents called me Baby, while they awaited the results of chromosome testing.
I am one of the roughly 1.7% of the population born intersex. That is, somewhere between the male-female binary of biological sex.
I couldn't sit on the sidelines and casually be erased. Buried in the bowels of this order was the attempt to erase intersex people.
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