"I was born intersex. I was born with ambiguous genitalia, and for a very long time in my life I was extremely ashamed…"

"I really struggled to get clarity from my parents about who I am and, you know, ‘where I come from."

"I became so abused by the doctors to a point whereby even when I got sick, and I was seriously sick, I could not go t…"

"But the more I met other people like me the more I realized how privileged I am that I didn’t get an operation -- tha…"

"Because people who did, they’re going through a very hard time at the moment because the surgeries have got very nega…"

"I never wanted to become an activist, all I ever wanted was to reach out and support people that had similar experien…"

"This led me to joining NGOs that claimed to support intersex people, I don’t remember many intersex people being supp…"

"My work as an activist also involves a lot of media visibility, and it is not easy being visible. The first time I ap…"

"It is hard to talk about intersex activism in South Africa and not mention the ground breaking work of Sally Gross, a…"

"I am so pleased I never had surgery. The people I met, most of them, black and white, who have had surgery as babies,…"