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First Person
Growing Up Intersex
In Ep 18 of PBS Digital Studio’s First Person “Growing Up Intersex,” host Kristin Russo talks with intersex activist and blogger Claudia Astorino about societal misconceptions surrounding intersex identity and her mission to end medically unnecessary surgical procedures on intersex children.
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