“Hiding our authentic selves cannot be the answer. We have to fight back”
VALENTINO VECCHIETTI is a writer, academic, intersex human rights campaigner and a lesbian. They founded Intersex Equality Rights UK. @ValentinoInter
“You have a beard like a man, do you want me to punch you in the face like a man? Do you? Do you?” That’s the question a burly, white, cisgender, middle-class man with a beard shouted at me in my local coffee shop a few months ago.