"The 'I' in LGBTQIA+ doesn't stand for 'invisible,'" advocate and author Alicia Roth Weigel says in director Julie Cohen's thought-provoking new documentary, "Every Body," in theaters now. Weigel, like roughly 200,000 other people living in the United States today, is intersex. And in a country that can be oppressive in its devotion to the binary, Weigel's community has long had to fight just to be acknowledged at all.
"The reason that it hasn't been talked about, and the reason that people think of intersex as being so rare and so anomalous," Cohen explained on "Salon Talks," "is that those who are born intersex or develop intersex traits are often subjected to unwanted surgeries and told to keep secret about it, like this is something shameful. Or," she adds, "they're not even told themselves."
