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Best Of: Alicia Roth Weigel on new documentary about intersex community

Capehart

The Washington Post

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4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Following its success as a 45th annual Telly Award winner in the DEI category, we revisit a 2023 conversation with Alicia Roth Weigel, an activist profiled in “Every Body," a new documentary exploring the lives of intersex people who are born with a combination of male and female biological traits as she discusses the intersex community, gender identity and the state of LGBTQIA+ rights in the country. Conversation recorded on Wednesday, July 19, 2023.

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I'm Jonathan Kapart and welcome to K-part.

0:03.0

The I in LGBTQIA Plus stands for intersex.

0:08.0

It stands for the nearly 2% of the world's population

0:12.0

who are born with a variation of sex characteristics.

0:15.0

That says many people who have green eyes or even red hair.

0:19.0

The focus features documentary, Every Body, puts a spotlight on the

0:24.0

Intersex community. One of the subjects of the film says that right now, in the

0:29.1

national conversation about the LGBTQIA Plus community, the eye could stand for invisible.

0:37.0

But not anymore.

0:38.0

Alicia Roth Weigel, a subject of the documentary and author of the book Inverse Cowgirl uses her voice

0:45.2

to ensure that Intersex People are heard and seen. What you're about to hear is the

0:51.5

conversation we had on July 19th of last year.

0:55.0

But we're bringing you this encore presentation because it just won bronze in the

1:01.0

DEI category at the 45th annual Telli Awards.

1:05.0

And in it, you'll hear Alicia talk about how she was born with internal testees

1:10.0

and how her existence proves that there is no pure male and female.

1:15.0

This knowledge then exposes the problem with demands that only biological women

1:21.0

participate in women's sports.

1:23.5

I always played on women's sports teams growing up.

1:27.8

I again, I look completely female on the outside.

1:31.1

And my question to legislators was, do they really want me using the

1:34.5

men's room if their whole question if their whole motivation for these bills is

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