Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a gorgeous conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

On today's episode I'm joined by Alicia Weigel where I ask her how can we put the I and LGBTQIA?

Welcome to Getting Curious. This is Jonathan Van Ness. I'm so excited to welcome our guest this week.

Her name is Alicia Weigel. She is a Texas-based policy strategist and advocate for the rights of children born with intersex traits and is also the Human Rights Commissioner for the City of Austin.

I'm obsessed with that title. I'm obsessed with you, Alicia. I have to give our listeners a little bit of a background.

I was lucky enough to meet Alicia at the launch of JBN here in Austin. We were talking, Alicia came up and introduced herself and we had an amazing time connecting and getting to know each other.

In that time you shared with me that you are an intersex advocate and that you are someone who is intersex.

You also, she they pronouns which we were actually just talking about right before we started this.

I'm just, was and am so blown away by you. I love your transparency, your openness, your heart, your energy was so clearly just brilliant and beautiful.

I mean, just meeting you in two seconds, I was just like, wow, this person is incredible. And so I'm just so honored that you took your time to come on here and to talk to us and to share your story.

And so yeah, welcome. How are you?

Thank you. I'm great. I'm so excited to be here and guess who washed her hair with JBN today?

I was going to say, but I try to like focus on policy. First and then since you brought it up, your hair looks amazing. Which one to do you use? I'm sorry. I'm smelling that squaline squaline.

And then he's squal that he's squaline honey is a gorgeous. It's not so good. Which one do you use the embodies the deep conditioning mask?

Yes, you better give me the nurture mask. Okay, Alicia, we are pivoting. Yes, from hair care. Our overall question for today is, how can we put the eye and

LGBTQIA honey? We're going to put the eye in it.

I love it. Exactly. Because as of now, the eye kind of stands for invisible, right?

Because people don't really know anything about us. And I think updating the acronym was the first step and it's amazing.

But I think if you ask even like 90 something percent of the queer community, what that eye stands for, I think most people probably won't be able to tell you.

So I want to like start off today with kind of level setting, which is I think it's okay for everyone listening to like not know and be open to learning.

And your whole podcast is about getting curious. So I think it's a great day to talk about what that I means, which is intersex.

So yes, intersex, not invisible. I think one thing that blew me away is incorrect.

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