INTERSEX: An honest conversation with Susie Temko

Honestly Podcast with Clemmie Telford

Clemmie Telford + Mags Creative

Parenting, Honestly, Kids & Family, Body Image, Sobriety, Death, Honest, Honesty, Race, Personal Journals, Marriage, Relationships, Money, Prison, Faith, Gender, Society & Culture, Cancer

4.7 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The world we live in is much more kaleidoscopic that the binary male and female identities we separate it into. Susannah Temko, found out she was intersex when she was 15 years old, and since has campaigned to raise awareness about the variation of sex and gender in her Ted Talks and activism. As common as redheads, Susannah explains how important recognition of intersex people is, as well as the lessons of identity and gender that she’s teaching others. For the full transcription of the episode please follow honestlypodcast.com This episode is sponsored by Smarty Mobile. Please visit www.smarty.co.uk/honestly for more details. To vote for Honestly to win the Listener’s Choice Awards, please visit: https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Clemy Telford and it's time to get open and get honest.
0:09.0	Each week, I interview a guest about a topic that we as a society often shy away from.
0:14.8	From sex lives to salaries, life and death, religion and real bodies, no subject is off the table.
0:21.6	Welcome to Honestly, the podcast.
0:28.6	Susie and I worked together a few years ago at Facebook.
0:31.6	While Starry's in Creative Shop, Susie was in the Policy and Coms Department.
0:36.6	She is one smart cookie, In fact, she's got a
0:39.0	TED talk out there that I really recommend you watch. But as well as being smart, Susie has also
0:43.9	had a fairly incredible journey, part of which we're going to touch on today as she talks about
0:48.7	becoming an intersex activist. As many as one in a thousand people are intersex. It can be as common as having naturally
0:55.8	red hair or twins, yet it's something that we know very little about, which is why I'm really glad
1:01.3	to have Susie with me. She sheds light on the ramifications of feeling forced to fit into the
1:06.5	sex binary society we live in, as well as the implications of having both stage four cancer and
1:11.9	having had a brain hemorrhage and how that shapes your picture on the big picture stuff.
1:16.6	See, I told you her story was remarkable.
1:19.2	So the name of the game is honestly, as you probably guessed, and I will start with a quick
1:23.0	fire round.
1:23.9	Okay.
1:24.3	So on a scale of 1 to 10, how fun are you?
1:27.4	Oh my God. I think I'm like a 3.
1:31.0	I like a 3. I don't know. I have really disparate groups, like some groups I think would be like a 10 and some
1:39.7	friends would be like a solid 1.0.5. I don't know if I know any 0.5 people.
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