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Born Both : An Intersex Life by Hida Viloria is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From one of the world's foremost intersex activists, a candid, provocative, and eye-opening memoir of gender identity, self-acceptance, and love. My name is Hida Viloria. I was raised as a girl but discovered at a young age that my body looked different. Having endured an often turbulent home life as a kid, there were many times when I felt scared and alone, especially given my attraction to girls. But unlike most people in the first world who are born intersex--meaning they have genitals, reproductive organs, hormones, and/or chromosomal patterns that do not fit standard definitions of male or female--I grew up in the body I was born with because my parents did not have my sex characteristics surgically altered at birth. It wasn't until I was twenty-six and encountered the term intersex in a San Francisco newspaper that I finally had a name for my difference. That's when I began to explore what it means to live in the space between genders--to be both and neither. I tried living as a feminine woman, an androgynous person, and even for a brief period of time as a man. Good friends would not recognize me, and gay men would hit on me. My gender fluidity was exciting, and in many ways

Who reads Born Both : An Intersex Life?

Author

Hida Viloria

Publisher

New York: Hachette Books

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316347846

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Science, Gender Studies

Rating

3.69 / 5 (164 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14