Sara Gillingham

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The UN says that between 0. 05% and 1. 7% of people are born with intersex characteristics

A woman in the 40s, that she was born intersex, her condition is cover "a" by events in childhood.

Sara Gillingham has meant variations in their gender characteristics, which by their mother, who would after taking in the belief it will prevent miscarriage.

Ms Gillingham, who was born in the vicinity of Selby, said she was 43 before she found out why exactly she had undergone surgery.

she had said, the operations were, because she was born prematurely.

Ms Gillingham said: "My earliest memory was that I always have the feeling that I was somehow different, I was very much a Tomboy, I never quite fit, but I didn't know why. "

Her Story was revealed, researchers say there is a postcode lottery when It Comes to medical treatment for people who used intersex, an umbrella term to describe people who are born with biological changes in their sex characteristics do not fit the typical male or female Categories .

Ms Gillingham said her mother took progesterone to try and prevent miscarriage, As a child, Ms Gillingham went through the medical experience she describes as "very traumatic"

Ms Gillingham said she remembered, examined in front of medical students as a child, adding: "It's the things you do was quite hard to me, so I knew which parts of my body they were operating. "

she was later told her that the fluctuation was caused by her mother's ingestion of a progestin, in combination with cases, to avoid miscarriage.

According to learn more about the nature of their operations, Ms Gillingham returned to Sheffield Children's Hospital in the hope to see your medical records out of your Time there.

But, she was told that their files had been destroyed.

she is now campaigning to change the way the medical system treats people, the variations in sex characteristics, and managers from The Hospital to say, you are now ready to meet the Ms Gillingham in private to discuss your concerns.

Sheffield Children's Hospital, said Mrs Gillingham, his records were examined have destroyed

law professors Mitchell Travis and fairies-garland, which hospitals offer The Best all-round care of patients with variations in sex characteristics.

Dr. Travis of the University of Leeds, said: "I think The Most surprising are the differences in terms of who gets access to The Best practices in this area, and who was for me, and it is a huge regional differences. "

The government Equalities Office is to gather evidence on the experiences of people, the variations in sex characteristics, and has heard from people who had bad experiences in the health system between 20 and 40 Years , with some struggling to access medical records from the Time .

Stephen Fry met with a group of intersex people at the Ashmolean Museum

Stephen Fry has called to be treated for intersex people, "common courtesy and decency".

The writer, actor and radio presenter said intersex people, the hidden as hermaphrodites, which were used by the ancient Greeks, "as" within the company.

But, he believes, is that something that would improve if more and more museums displayed sculptures of intersex people from all over the history.

Mr Fry said: "It is incredible to remember how The First gay kiss on Brookside, the people brought to arrange their dishes, now we accept to see it as a natural and normal thing, and I'm sure that will be true of intersex people. "

Amazon Jackson described himself as a "self-conscious female comedian, the really intersex"

One of the people he met, was a comedian Amazon Jackson, from Hull, who only found out she was intersex at 30, if she was going to fertility treatment and they discovered the ovaries.

you said: "It is fantastic that Stephen is as an ally to the intersex community and want to understanding out and away from the ignorance that is present. "

Mr. Fry met with the artist, Ela Xora, said: "We need to start from biological sex, and gender in the human race as something from The Inside out, not from the outside. "

Inside Out (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire) investigated The Experience of people born intersex on Bbc One at 19:30 GMT on Monday, 17. Seen and February can be, and afterwards on the Bbc Iplayer .

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