Small Ela Luk | |
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| Born | Luk yiu-hung 1966 (age 57–58) |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Education | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Known for | Intersex activist and doctor of Chinese medicine |
Small Luk is an intersex human rights activist and the first intersex person to openly acknowledge her biological sex characteristics in Hong Kong.[1] She was born with partial androgen insensitivity syndrome (PAIS).[2] Luk lived as a male for 36 years, and now identifies and lives as a woman,[2] after changing her sex characteristics from intersex to female through gender-affirming surgery, upon doctors' advice to undergo the surgery because her type of PAIS would most likely have caused cancer.[2]
She founded the organization "Beyond Boundaries – Knowing and Concerns Intersex"[3] in 2011, which is concerned with, and strives for, the rights of intersex people.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
daywas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b c "We talk to intersex individual Dr Small Luk about her gender struggles". Time Out Hong Kong. Archived from the original on 29 May 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ^ "Beyond Boundaries – Knowing and Concerns Intersex". Facebook.