Sogto Ochirov (, born September 1993) is a Russian

intersex Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical bina ...

activist, archer and

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. He is a Buryat from Zabaykalsky Krai. He is known for speaking openly about living with partial androgen insensitivity. He became the subject of a YouTube-documentary by

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"Intersex people in Russia".

Biography

Ochirov was born in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. He was

assigned female at birth Sex assignment (sometimes known as gender assignment) is the discernment of an infant's sex at or before birth. A relative, midwife, nurse or physician inspects the external genitalia when the baby is delivered and, in more than 99.95% of bi ...

based on the appearance of his genitals and named Tsyregma. When he was 13 years old, at a school medical examination, doctors sent him for additional examinations when they found out that he did not have a period. So by the age of 16 in Chita, an intersex variation was found in him - partial insensitivity to androgens. And he was sent to the capital of Russia for further medical support. Where he had an operation to remove the external male genital organs and prescribed female hormones. But due to male gender identity and gender dysphoria, at 23, Sogto decided to change his gender to male and continue to live as a man. For religious reasons Ochirov decided to consult with the supreme

shaman Shamanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman) interacting with what they believe to be a spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance. The goal of this is usually to direct spirits or spiritu ...

Bair Tsyrendorzhiev in Ulan-Ude about which name to choose. The shaman said Ochirov must be named Sogto. At the age of 24, he learned about the intersex community in Russia and then began to openly talk about his story in order to help other intersex people and find other intersex people in the Zabaykalsky Krai. To people with intersex variations, Sogto says: “Accept yourself for who you are. You can't run from it, you can't hide. Just live happily!"

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