What Is Intersex? A Personal Explainer

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        What Is Intersex? A Personal Explainer
      Have questions about what it means to be intersex? Filmmaker and activist River Gallo has the answers. 
 
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 Lumiere Rostick 
          
          Feb 21, 2019
          
Lumiere Rostick
Lumiere Rostick is a Strategic Communications and Cinema & Television Arts double major at Elon University in North Carolina. She's currently a video intern at Pride Media.
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Filmmaker River Gallo gives us the breakdown of what it means to be intersex. GLAAD defines intersex as "an umbrella term describing people born with reproductive or sexual anatomy and/or a chromosome pattern that can't be classified as typically male or female." Gallo shares his experience as an intersex person, hopes for the future, and the importance of education about the intersex community.
 
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