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Translator: Leonardo Silva Reviewer: Mile Živković "What sort of genitals do you have?" "Can I see them?" "What sort of underwear do you wear?" "Which bathroom do you use?" "Are you a boy or a girl?" "Wait, what's your real name?" Imagine being asked those questions on average at least once a week, for the rest of your life. It seems pretty intrusive, impolite and just downright rude, right? Well, for me, this is a reality. "Why on earth would anybody ask you those questions?," you might wonder. Before I tell you that, I want to go through a few basic concepts, so that we're all on the same page. First, I want to talk about sex. And no, not sex as in having sex, but sex as in biology. You see, our sex is a combination of our bodily features, such as chromosomes, hormone production, fat distribution, genitals, hair growth, and so on, and we refer to them as sex characteristics. When a person is born, we usually assign them male or female, based on these sex characteristics, because it's just that simple, right? Well, it isn't really that simple. In fact, sex characteristics are so vastly different between people that there are at least forty recognized variations of sex. Usually, when a person falls outside this binary of male and female, we refer to them as intersex. When an intersex child is born, whose genitals do not fit into the binary of male and female, surgeons will often perform medical interventions to surgically alter their bodies in order to normalize them, often without their parents' consent, and certainly not their own. I don't know about you, but to me, this seems like nothing but a clear violation of someone's human rights. Secondly, I want to talk about gender. When we think about men and women, boys and girls, we get a certain idea in our head. We associate women with femininity, and we associate men with masculinity. We expect men and women to dress differently, do different things, and have different roles in society. And this is partly what gender is, the socially-constructed idea of what men and women are, and what we expect them to be, because it's all so "just that simple," right? Well, not really. Gender is also much more complicated than just two binary categories of men and women. In fact, gender is different between different societies and different cultures and it changes through time. So, gender and the way people identify their gender are therefore often much more complex, and the reality is much more diverse. Now, this is where I come in and tell you a little bit about myself, and why I get asked these questions all the time. When I was born, I was assigned boy, based on my genitals. Despite this, I am most certainly not a man, nor have I ever been. It's shocking for some of you, I'm sure. Usually, when a person is born, we assign...