Interview with Olliever Buchanan, a queer, intersex, trans man in Oklahoma City, OK. We discuss using they/them pronouns at work, coming out as different identities, dealing with chest dysphoria, finding out they are intersex, endogenous and exogenous hormones, DNA/genetic tests, anti-trans bills and intersex exclusions, autonomy vs control of bodies, how testosterone therapy affected their body, gender affirming care, and being perceived as a cisgendered gay man out in public.

We also discuss the term abrosexual, some discomfort between the intersex and trans communities, the multitude of identities they embody, appreciating femininity, family support, and their trans and intersex activism.

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Links related to this interview.

Olliever's Instagram account

https://www.instagram.com/findingollie/

Olliever's TikTok account

https://www.tiktok.com/@laughsinintersex

#4intersex rights

https://4intersex.org/

InterACT Advocates for Intersex Youth

https://interactadvocates.org/

Abrosexuality

https://www.lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Abrosexual

Genderflux

https://www.lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Genderflux

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Other Conversations is an independent, informal oral history project by Shane Brodie, a multi-issue activist and sculptor. This project is on hiatus as of Fall 2023 as I continue to slowly upload previous interviews, but it may continue later on in 2024 or thereafter. If you are interested in being interviewed sometime in the future, please email me (see below) and we can talk about that privately.

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