‘My Name Was Baby’: How this Midwestern author came to write an intersex memoir

By: Chris Arnone

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: June 8, 2026

Words: 655

Last Updated: 3 days, 17 hours ago

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On Jan. 20, 2025, Donald Trump took back the White House. On that same day, he signed executive order 14168, the natural progression of the GOP’s ongoing assault on transgender people. This order sought to define gender and sex as strictly binary: male and female.

And yet, I was not born into this strict binary. My genitals were ambiguous at birth. For three days, my parents called me Baby, while they awaited the results of …

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