Paul: "I'm a 58 year old cisgender male, heterosexual intersex person"

Paul is a a man with brown hair and a whitening beard. He's standing in front of a colourful backdrop with lots of different coloured lines.

Congratulations to Paul Byrne-Moroney for this interview with Minus18 for IDAHOBIT day.

When I was 28 years old I learned that my sex chromosomes are XXY, that I am infertile, that my body doesn’t produce normal levels of testosterone and that for the rest of my life I would be on Hormone Replacement Therapy. With that I was sent on my way.

At age 50, I heard the word “intersex” for that first time and, shortly afterwards, that I am intersex. Since learning that I’m intersex, I’ve connected with other intersex people, and I’ve become involved in advocacy and peer support.

Read the full story on the Australian IDAHOBIT site

Find out more about 47,XXY on the InterLink Resource Hub. Connect with other folks with the same trait via InterLink and Intersex Peer Support Australia.

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