The Intersex Diaries
At birth, Anick's doctors didn't know if he was a boy or a girl. At 18 he found out he was intersex. Now, he meets other intersex people as he prepares for his final surgery.
You might already know someone who is intersex, but you can鈥檛 tell someone is intersex just by looking at them.
Being intersex doesn鈥檛 mean you have both sets of genitalia, the term intersex is an umbrella term used to describe people born with biological sex characteristics that don鈥檛 fit typical male or female categories.
In today鈥檚 documentary, we meet Anick. He鈥檚 23, from Leicester and he grew up knowing there was something different about him. Anick goes into frank detail about what it鈥檚 like living as intersex. He speaks about the huge impact this has had on his life, his mental health and some of the challenges he鈥檚 faced鈥�
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