The yellow door represents intersex pride. Intersex people are born with sexual characteristics which don’t fit clearly into the either/or gender binary of male and female. About 1.7% of people are intersex. The intersex pride flag is yellow, with a purple circle. The colours were chosen as gender-neutral, while the circle represents wholeness, as intersex people are complete and whole as they are.
Intersex people face unique challenges, sometimes from the moment they are born. In the United Kingdom, a baby’s sex is registered at birth as either male or female. There is not an option to register a baby as intersex. As such: doctors and parents are forced to make their best guess, sometimes forcing people into unnecessary categories, and sometimes even having medically unnecessary ‘gender affirming’ operations when they are too young to decide for themselves.
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Photo credit: Doug Southwall, Pepper Pictures
