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'Doctors didn't know if I was a boy or a girl – it made me suicidal'


EXCLUSIVE: OK! speaks to intersex activist Anick Soni about discovering that he was intersex during his teens, having undergone a series of operations since he was a child

As a result, they ran some tests to establish which gender he should be raised as – something which led him to spending his childhood undergoing treatments to make him appear what society would deem more acceptably male. Anick Soni is an intersex and human rights activist (Image: Supplied) Read MoreRelated Articles'I only had a year to live and my treatment was killing me - until a miracle happened' Having been through a number of surgeries and treatments from a young age, and going without a diagnosis until his teens, Anick admits that he was led to believe that something about him “needed fixing” as it took a toll on his mental health.

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