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I would like to ask Katie:

Are there any specific similarities that struck you between yourself and Calliope in Middlesex? Was there a moment in the book that really resonated with you as an experience or emotion that you have gone through yourself?

Once you found out about your "condition," what was your initial reaction? Did shame find its way into this reaction? I am in no way implying that it is something to feel shameful about, but I'm wondering about the possible effects of societal pressures to fit into the gender binary.

What is your personal opinion about the gender binary? Do you think it is something we created for ourselves a long time ago and have since learned to call it "nature," or do you think it really is our nature to fit under two sex categories? Do you think there are more than two official genders/sexes?

What is your personal way of separating the terms "sex" and "gender?"

How did you feel the audience reacted to your interview on Oprah?

Does your condition allow you to step outside your body as a woman at all? Do you feel like you have a fresh perspective to add to the term feminism?

How did your discovery of your condition affect your body image, and do you think that a girl finding out she is intersexed necessarily exempts her from the societal pressures telling her what is "beautiful" for a woman's body?