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Abstract

i, intersex is a memoir detailing my personal experiences as an intersex person in Canada from the early 2000s to the present day. The attempt of this memoir has been to fill a void in first-person intersex narratives in Canadian literature, to humanize intersex people—who are so often marginalized or stereotyped in socio-political discourse—and to disrupt the notion that biological sex is a binary concept. Living somewhere on the biological spectrum between male and female, my story provides a unique access point to the ongoing public discussion surrounding transgender people, and the mutability and spectra of sex and gender. As well as discussing the objective truth that sex is a spectrum, sexuality and gender expression are also explored for the spectra they are, through the lens of personal experience.