Roshaante Anderson grew up thinking she was a normal kid. It wasn’t until he was eleven that he discovered he was intersex. Doctors then discovered his undescended testicles during an ultrasound he underwent due to abdominal pain. As he said, at that moment everything started to make sense. He was born with a vagina, micropenis and undescended testicles. But that was nothing scary. Horror came only with people who do not think and vent their thoughts.
In childhood, he had almost no information about intersex people, so Roshaante did not notice anything for a long time. But with puberty came a feeling of difference and alienation. His parents allowed people to use the pronoun he, but they also referred to him as a girl in some situations. He did not wear girls’ clothes and was not guided to strict gender roles at home.
Roshaante recalls unpleasant experiences with adults. “I was born with undescended testicles and had a micropenis and also a vaginal opening. I always compared myself to a pizza, that I am half and half. My friends asked me: ‘Do you go to the toilet standing or sitting?’ To that I responded: ‘Calm down, I’m a child. He will stop asking me about it. You are sexualizing me. It’s scary,” he said on People Are Deep.
Roshaante is lucky that such questions have not affected him and his confidence has never been weakened by it. “I never felt bad about myself. I’m in love with myself and I think I have a good reason for it. i am unique” he thinks.
Later, he decided on operations to modify his genitals. He spent nearly £80,000 (over €91,000) to have doctors create a fully functional penis from the skin on his arm. They lengthened his urethra and inserted hydraulic ax bodies into his penis.
Roshaante also revealed that people used to give him unpleasant to cruel questions and orders even in school. Some forced him to roll up his shirt to prove if he had breasts. “I didn’t take it as an insult, I took it as proof that they’re stupid. When I tell you what I am and you say the opposite and you’re thirty or thirty-five, you’re making a fool of yourself,” added Roshaante in an interview with The Mirror. He defines his sexual orientation as pansexual and claims that he can be attracted to people regardless of gender, gender or race.
