Intersex Rights Activist Alicia Weigel on New Her Book "Inverse Cowgirl"

Activist Alicia Weigel is a member of the intersex community, individuals born with both male and female reproductive organs. Weigel joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss her new book "Inverse Cowgirl."
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[@gb3729]

Alicia's book is excellent, very entertaining and thought provoking. It is also very emotional.

[@TruthOverFear21]

Life is more strange and weird than we like to admit. We should learn to let people be who they are and not what we expected them to be.

[@tinkywinky56]

Yup, live and let live. It's their lives, not ours. We can't control other ppl

[@How2navigate]

it is not too weird, nature sets the rules for us. we can not avoid it. we all begin as a woman and at a certain point a woman stops to create a man. nature obviously have it where there is a variation in this process, you can get stuck somewhere in the middle.

[@davidellis5141]

I respect your courage Alicia. I think your awesome 👌 !

[@jacquelinejacobson4023]

Wow so many disrespectful comments. Thank you for your honesty and your advocacy. It’s important to bring people’s stories into the light. It’s easy, albeit disgraceful, to hate that which we don’t understand. ❤

[@Julia-ov6wm]

ikr those people are uneducated people and I am so sick and tired of it and love your comment btw ❤

[@Luke_E_Babyy]

All my love to you.

[@leannevandekew1996]

Fashion Model good looks.

[@AskCoachLiz]

It's not weird, it's chromosome reality. We learned of this in school for education. Assuming people born this way are wrong, is wrong.

[@VEGANSAM]

WOW!

[@MichelleCarithersAuthor]

like this!!!

[@PaulStringini]

There are not enough intersex people in any given locality to form a community. I also have a hidden sexual deformity. It's never held me back, and I'm not part of any "community" of deformed people.

[@lolitaalmostgrown]

Maybe you don’t need other human beings because you’re emotionally stunted, but it’s fairly standard for people with “deformities” or other things in common to form groups. Just look at the Republicans in Congress.

[@davidellis5141]

​@@lolitaalmostgrown👍

[@PaulStringini]

@@lolitaalmostgrown Never said I don't need other humans. I just don't need to find "people just like me" in order to feel validated and form some sort of community around something as meaningless as genital deformity. I like being different, but that kind of difference is pretty empty. People need to distinguish themselves by accomplishing things, not by forming groups around immutable characteristics.

[@RaymondHng]

Intersex people are not "deformed" people.

[@PaulStringini]

@@RaymondHng Ok, but I am a person with a deformed sexual organ. You don't speak for us.

[@b.1162]

Crazy how 1% of the population has so much power and control over the national dialogue.

[@gloriatg100]

Where do you come up with 1% ?

[@TydalWind]

Actually, it's intersex is LESS than 1%... about .07%... if that. I should know... as best as I can determine, I was one of the First infants to be surgically 'assigned' in 1955!!!.... see my above post.

[@gloriatg100]

@@TydalWind and yet you and her both have a right to speak out and be heard

[@TydalWind]

@@gloriatg100 Due to my circumstances I've known some of the major intersex activists down through the years and have had many dialogs with them. This poor soul in the video has been brainwashed by the doctors who treated her since infancy... I've seen this before in several of similar cases... these Children have been pushed through the medical meat grinder and have developed a case of Stockholm syndrome (look it up if you don't know what that is), as this is the Only story they have known. They are Never told the alternatives or the Real consequences, IF they've been told Anything at all. The whole premise of Dr. Money's theories is that there is to be NO deviation from the 'assigned' sex, with a Total blackout of information that would contradict the doctor's assertions. BTW... there is No thing as 'trans-sexual'... it is a Fallacy to think that a normal woman or man can be 'turned into' the opposite sex... they tried it with me, but, eventually, my Real sex came through naturally, although great harm had been done to such a degree that I will NEVER Be Whole. At best, so-called transgenders May achieve the Appearance of what they desire to be... but they will NEVER be a REAL 'man' or 'woman'... just a facsimile of one.

[@coastaf]

Seriously red heads must be stopped! I’ve been seeing them in my commercials and they’re getting jobs out of ratio with their existence. I call conspiracy. But WHO’S behind it all??

[@elizabethb4332]

This is a brave person who couldn't help being born with male and female reproductive organs. Unlike Dylan Mulvaney who makes money by claiming to a woman and experiencing 365 days of girlhood. I would rather see Alicia then Dylan explain to us what their life is like and what they have experienced in their life. In the meantime, Dylan is making good money by changing his sexual orientation and gender whenever the mood shifts.

[@philmygroin6601]

Reverse cowgirl is better

[@tyrellanderson4722]

Shoulderpads weren't necessary.

[@vanillamarshmallow]

Does Alicia know what Lupron does? She claims she's upset that she has osteoporosis in her 30s, but does she not realize that kids who take Lupron will have the same fate? Why is she an advocate for transitioning children?

[@tinkywinky56]

Because it's their choice. And they aren't "children" when they're 16 and 17 years old. They should have some say over their lives. If their parents and DOCTORS agree, then wtf are you to get in their way? If you cared about children, you'd be protesting outside church every single day for all the child r@pes going on in there. You don't actually gaf about kids.

[@vanillamarshmallow]

@@tinkywinky56you think 16 and 17 year olds are mature enough to take drugs that will ruin their endocrine system and increase risks of cardiovascular disease vascular disease and cancer (among other things). The side effects of lupron are well known, it’s terrible to give it to a perfectly healthy child.

[@logandunson4485]

Interesting that if it ain’t broke don’t fix it is something she’s claiming that everyone is perfect just the way they are. I would hope that she is a supporter against sex change procedures especially on young adolescents and a supporter of people just living in the skin they’re in.

[@tinkywinky56]

She supports an individual's right to decide how they want to express themselves and what kind of medical care thet receive, so she actually supports trans ppl and their rights and freedoms.

[@CuriousBean]

Yeah right. Then they'd just be regular people. And that's no fun.

[@CuriousBean]

​@@tinkywinky56 Children aren't adults and shouldn't be taught to hate their bodies.

[@tinkywinky56]

@@CuriousBean show me who exactly is teaching children to hate their bodies? Giving children some say in how they dress and express themselves is not teaching hate, ya bozo

[@CuriousBean]

@@tinkywinky56 Children deserve protection from grooming, indoctrination, and medical abuse. I'll never support a yt men's entitlement movement.

[@516throwapot]

i call bull crap 100%

[@tinkywinky56]

Yes, all the medical associations have been lying to us this whole time. You're soooo smort

[@coastaf]

which part?

[@tinkywinky56]

@@coastaf he won't say due to being bull crap 100%

[@steveconn]

Hermaphrodite hero..ine...hero (oh forget it).

[@prdamico]

Freak show, isn't there a circus hiring ??

[@lolitaalmostgrown]

Yes, you are. Unfortunately, even the circus isn’t interested in you. They have enough garbage already.

[@CuriousBean]

​@@lolitaalmostgrown Typical tra (name included).

[@davidmolina7543]

Are you talking about yourself?…

[@Alvan81]

Looky Looky an Edgelord lol

[@Julia-ov6wm]

wtf..

[@lindaleelaw5277]

I Wouldn't spend a cent on her book just excuses for psychological dysfunction

[@coastaf]

You got that Alicia was literally born with all sorts of “sexual” “biological” anatomy yea? Like it’s not her choice or something she chose?

[@tinkywinky56]

​@@coastafhe didn't watch, but he's somehow an expert on all things gender, sex, etc.