Issues Affecting Intersex People
Including intersex under LGBT can be controversial, with some intersex people identifying with LGBT and some not; some argue I should be included as LGBTI. Intersex people may identify as heterosexual, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans or no such labels, and so experience some of the issues related to these groups; however, intersex people can also have a variety of health issues from birth onwards that are unique to intersex people. There are a range of ways people can be intersex, so between different types of intersex people there can be different health issues that relate to their situation. For more information, see the article on intersex.
Read more about this topic: Healthcare And The LGBT Community
Famous quotes containing the words issues, affecting and/or people:
“The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“Sometimes people who are never alone are the loneliest, don’t you think so?”
—A.I. (Albert Isaac)