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Top fashion model, Hanne Gaby Odiele has revealed she is intersex in the hope of opening up a dialogue about the condition and stopping 鈥渦nconsented and unnecessary and irreversible surgeries鈥� on intersex people while they are children.

Intersex people are born with a mixture of male and female sex characteristics. According to the United Nations, the condition affects up to 1.7% of the world's population.

Hanne was born with undescended testes which she had removed at the age of 10 after doctors warned they could cause cancer.

Speaking to 5 live鈥檚 Phil Williams she said 鈥渢oo often [doctors] use the scare of cancer as a way of operating.鈥�

鈥淏ut I feel too often [surgeries are] done out of fear for non-binary bodies and they鈥檙e more harmful and traumatising than can be good.鈥�

This clip is originally from the Phil Williams programme on Tuesday 24 January 2017.

Photo courtesy of of Women Management / Matte Projects.