Gabriel José Martín Martín ( San Fernando, July 12, 1971) is a Spanish gay and intersex psychologist, writer and activist.

Personal life

When he was born, Gabriel J. Martín was assigned a

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due to the appearance of his genitals. He was named Patricia and raised as a girl, although he never felt like one. However, when he reached adolescence, he began to develop hair and a beard due to the fact that he possessed internal testicles. At the age of 18, doctors determined that he was born with

intersex Intersex people are those 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 binar ...

genitalia and that he actually had

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instead of a

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.Intersexualidad: «Nunca me sentí niña y mi comportamiento masculino era un problema».
''ABC''. 20 October 2014.
''El País''. 30 June 2016. After beginning a life as a man, he began a relationship with a woman. Although over time he realized that he was not heterosexual, breaking the relationship and moving to

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, where he still resides at present. Martin has said that he would have had a better life if he had been operated on at birth.

Education

In 1996, he graduated in psychology by the UNED, later he completed a postgraduate degree at the

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. He devoted himself to the problems of

homosexual men Gay men are male homosexuals. Some bisexual men, bisexual and homoromantic men may dually identify as ''gay'' and a number of gay men also identify as ''queer''. Historic terminology for gay men has included ''Sexual inversion (sexology), in ...

which — as he discerned from work experience — often differed from those of heterosexual men. Moreover, he trained as a volunteer and activist in the Gay-Lesbian Management of Catalonia.

Career

He is an expert in gay affirmative psychology, with which he helps other gay men to overcome their

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«Hay gays que tienen interiorizada la homofobia»
''El Correo''. 29 March 2019. or to be able to come out of the closet in their environment. In addition to advising homosexual men, he is a representative of the Spanish Council of Psychology in the LGTB office of the

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(APA). He is also president of the LGTB Affirma't association, coordinator of the LGTB Affirmative Psychology working group of the Col•legi Oficial de Psicologia de Catalunya and collaborates with several radio and television channels.

Publications

* Martín, Gabriel J. (2016). ''Quiérete mucho, maricón. Manual de éxito psicoemocional para hombres homosexuales''. Roca. . * — (2017). ''El ciclo del amor marica. Relaciones de pareja (y soltería feliz) para hombres homosexuales''. Roca. . * —; Martín, Sebas (2018). ''Sobrevivir al ambiente. Porque salir del armario no era más que el principio''. Roca. . * — (2020). ''Gay Sex. Manual sobre sexualidad y autoestima erótica para hombres homosexuales''. Roca. .

References

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