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Published: 10:28 BST, 14 June 2021 | Updated: 22:48 BST, 14 June 2021
A woman, who was born with both male and female genitalia has told how doctors decided she was a boy 'without her consent' at birth.
Luna Animisha, 24, who lives in Puna, Hawaii , was assigned a gender by medics at birth and she says that doctors 'stitched up her vagina' and removed her uterus after determining that she was male - a procedure that she now calls 'barbaric'.
She says that undergoing surgery and being assigned her a gender before she was old enough to make her own choice left her with identity problems because she always felt more feminine than masculine.
After years of personal struggles - and torment from bullies - because of her gender identity, Luna has now rejected the male gender assigned to her at birth and instead adopted she/her pronouns.
A woman, who was born with both male and female genitalia has told how doctors decided she was a boy 'without he consent' at birth
She is now hoping to raise the $150,000 to get reconstructive surgery and a uterus transplant, although the procedure is still in its infancy and clinical trials are ongoing.
In 2019, a woman in Cleveland taking part in a research trial became the first person in the world to give birth after receiving a uterus transplant from a deceased donor.
Luna hopes this will 'help put her back together' and return her to being intersex - with both sets of genitalia - like she was born.
The yoga practitioner said removing organs from intersex youngsters was treating them more like 'cats and dogs' than people.
Luna Animisha, 24, who lives in Puna, Hawaii, was raised as a boy and says medics 'stitched up her vagina' leaving her forced to fundraise for a uterus
Her womb was removed and she was assigned male at birth yet she claims their 'barbaric' actions left her with identity problems as she feels more feminine than masculine
Luna said: 'I only found out at 14-years-old that I was born intersex, but even before that I knew I wanted to present a different way than my parents raised me.
'I'm not sure whether it was my parents' decision or the doctors' but I was assigned male at birth and had my womb taken out and my vagina stitched up.
'I think that is absolutely barbaric - infants can never give consent.
'Intersex kids are treated the same as dogs and cats just having their organs removed and it's really traumatic for us.'
Luna added this has caused her 'identity problems' and has even led to suicidal thoughts, which began at a very young age.
She said: 'This has caused me a lot of identity problems - at the worst of times I completely hated how I looked as a boy and thought I was destined to be alone.
After years of struggling and bullying because of her gender identity, Luna has now rejected the male gender assigned to her at birth and instead adopted she/her pronouns
The yoga practitioner said removing organs from intersex youngsters was treating them more like 'cats and dogs' than people and that babies 'can never consent'
'This is the first year I haven't truly wanted to die - the first time I had suicidal thoughts was at five years old on the playground, which started with not being able to connect with people.
'I eventually realized it was related to the way I saw and expressed myself but it took me years to realize that my gender identity was at the root of it all.
'It would be a miracle to go back to being intersex because that is who I am.
'If I transitioned to completely female I would just be in the same boat I am now - missing half of myself that I was born with.'
Luna now takes estrogen and progesterone - hormones naturally produced by ovaries that control the function of the uterus - as part of hormone replacement therapy.
Intersex is a term used when a person is born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn't fit the boxes of 'female' or 'male'.
Sometimes doctors do surgeries on intersex babies and children to make their bodies fit binary ideas of 'male' or 'female'.
There are many different ways someone can be intersex.
Some people have genitals or internal sex organs that fall outside the male/female categories — such as a person with both ovarian and testicular tissues.
Other intersex people have combinations of chromosomes that are different than XY ( usually associated with male) and XX (usually associated with female), like XXY.
And some people are born with external genitals that fall into the typical male/female categories, but their internal organs or hormones don’t.
She is already in talks with a plastic surgeon about vaginal reconstructive surgery and she is also looking into lab-grown uterus transplant options, costing around $100,00.
This kind of transplant would mean the uterus would be grown from Luna's own vulva tissue and would be as biologically close as possible to her original womb which was removed at birth.
Children whose genitals don't typically align with the norm have for decades faced surgery to rearrange their anatomy to resemble that of more typical boys and girls - long before they are old enough to have a say in the decision.
Intersex genitalia can be surgically changed for an array of reasons: to change appearance, to help urination or menstruation, improve fertility and sexual function, or ward off potential medical complications.
Intersex activists have long argued that the surgery is a violation of human rights and have called to outlaw the gender-alignment surgery.
Luna states in her GoFundMe appeal: 'So I was born intersex as a hermaphrodite, and they did surgery at birth (cut out my womb and sewed me up). And my parents raised me as a boy. I learned this later in life, and started HRT which has saved my life.
'I'm starting to really want surgery to help put me back together, but I don't want to take away from what I have.'
Luna said: 'I've always felt so unwell and hormonally imbalanced because of having my uterus removed - my body running on too much testosterone is like trying to put diesel in a petrol car when estrogren is my petrol.
'Now I take medication for hormone replacement therapy and it has saved my life, but I hope to not need it eventually.
'Getting a uterus transplant would mean the world to me - it would mean I could possibly carry my own child one day, which would be an honor and a blessing.'
Luna felt different to other children from a young age, even before she knew that she was born intersex, and felt more drawn towards stereotypically female clothing and activities.
This contrast with her assigned gender, as well as the inability to connect with other children, led her to become a target for bullies and the victim of violent attacks as a secondary school child.
She said she was 'made fun of' by peers in school where she grew up in Georgia for being feminine, and added her parents 'didn't like it'.
Luna (left, presenting as male as a teenager) felt different to other children from a young age, even before she knew that she was born intersex, and felt more drawn towards stereotypically female clothing and activities. Now (right), she wants surgery to 'put her back together'
She said: 'I was forced to play sports with the boys which I hated, I'd rather play with dolls or watch princess movies and I would wear makeup things that looked more feminine when no one was around.
'It wasn't until I turned 21 that I was able to have the freedom to express myself properly and that was a turning point - all of my fear and self-loathing went away and I love myself now, which is so freeing.'
Luna now hopes to raise awareness of intersex people and to encourage others to be more accepting of different gender identities.
She said: 'I want to see the world become a place where everyone is free to be who they want to be.
'Everyone, including trans and intersex people, should have the right to their own body - changing your body doesn't hurt anyone.
'We should all be able to be our authentic self.'
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Is it possible to be born as both a male and female?
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Genderwise : Someone can be Non-binary and feel like they're both a woman and a man. This would be called either Androgyne or Bi-Gender.
Sex wise : Someone can be born intersex and have both parts of reproductive system.
No. It is not possible. Sex and gender are complicated, and variations are practically infinite, but you don't get both fully male and fully female.
Whether you are talking about brain gender or anotomical sex, you don't get both.
Brain gender varies from very male to very female to a practically infinite number of variations. These variations might be experienced as points along the female/male spectrum, or as genders outside that spectrum.
There are even some people who alternate genders. One day they may experience their gender as fully male, and the next, it is fully female. Alternating gende
No. It is not possible. Sex and gender are complicated, and variations are practically infinite, but you don't get both fully male and fully female.
Whether you are talking about brain gender or anotomical sex, you don't get both.
Brain gender varies from very male to very female to a practically infinite number of variations. These variations might be experienced as points along the female/male spectrum, or as genders outside that spectrum.
There are even some people who alternate genders. One day they may experience their gender as fully male, and the next, it is fully female. Alternating genders isn't about just feeling more girlish one day and more boyish the next. Discernible hormonal changes and differences in cognitive abilities seem to accompany the changed gender experience. What you don't see is someone's identity as being both fully male and fully female at the same time .
Intersex people are not born with two complete sets of reproductive organs. Intersex babies are born with what the doctors call "ambiguous genitalia." They may have an unusually large clitoris and a vaginal opening, but no vaginal canal or uterus. They may be born with an unusually small penis and the urethra may be located where it typically would be located in a female baby.
What you don't see is babies with two full sets of reproductive organs. In a developmental sense, there isn't the raw material for both.
An embryo has the raw material for one set of reproductive organs. Depending on genetic and hormonal factors, the fetus develops either a clitoris or a penis. They develop either testes or ovaries. They develop either labia or a scrotum. There isn't raw material for both, at least in humans.
And then their are transgender people. Our understanding of what causes someone to be trans is in its infancy. I'll offer one theory that make sense to me. In a perfectly healthy pregnancy, hormone levels in utero fluctuate. The theory is that when my brain was developing those features that differentiate girl brains and boy brains, one of these normal hormone fluctuations led to me being exposed to much more estrogen than is typical in the development of a boy baby. Consequently, those gendered parts of my brain developed as one would expect in a girl baby.
Then, when the gendered parts of my anatomy were developing, the hormone levels were back within the range typical for boy babies. Consequently, I developed boy reproductive organs.
According to this theory, I was born with a perfectly fine girl brain and a perfectly fine boy body. But, I was not born both fully male and fully female.

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