CSU professor says, 'We're all intersex'

[Syne]

CSU professor says, 'We're all intersex'
http://www.examiner.com/x-12237-Denver-Transgender-Issues-Examiner~y2009m7d7-CSU-professor-says-Were-all-intersex
Matt Kailey

Callahan is the author of the new book Between XX and XY: Intersexuality and the Myth of Two Sexes, which profiles individuals born with various intersex conditions.

While Callahan's statement may not be technically correct, the sentiment behind it — that "none of us meet the criterion of being the perfect male or the perfect female" — is accurate and supports Callahan's argument that the binary gender system (two-gendered system) does not accurately reflect what is actually found in nature.

[Shana A]

We're all intersex

The author of "Between XX and XY" on people born neither male nor female -- and why everyone's a little bit of both

By Thomas Rogers

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/07/07/xx_xy/index.html

July 7, 2009 | In the fall of 1998, Lisa May Stevens, a 32-year-old from Idaho, went on a camping trip. Stevens had been told for most of her life that she was a boy, but in her 20s had discovered the truth about her sex -- that she had been born a hermaphrodite, and that doctors had conducted surgeries on her genitalia as an infant. After learning the news, she consulted her priest, who said that while God usually condemns suicides, for her he might make an exception. A decade later, on the third day of her camping trip, she put a pistol under her jaw and pulled the trigger.