Jim Ambrose features in a new documentary from Channel 4 called The Secret of Me, which reveals the prevalence of surgical intervention in infants who are born intersex.
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This still happens in many countries around the globe, and effectively means that doctors carry out ‘corrective’ surgery on an infant to make their genitalia align with what is considered either male or female.
Jim, now in his late 40s, shared that he was raised as a girl, but a class at college led to him realizing what had happened to him not long after he was born.
« I was taking this feminist studies course, » he said, « I had no idea when I walked into this class that my whole f***ing world was gonna turn upside down. »Jim recalled flicking through a text that was assigned for the class, and reading about babies who are ‘born with bodies with genitals that fall outside an arbitrary acceptable norm’.
Explaining what can happen in this scenario, he said: « The length is measured. This long you get to be a boy, if it’s less than that then you lose your phallus and you’re raised as a girl.
« The choice is made by the parents and the doctors. The child is having their gender designated, imprinted, selected for them. »
He added: « And it just hit me – I think this is about me. »
