Filmmaker Traces Evolution of ‘Intersex’

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Filmmaker Traces Evolution of 'Intersex'
By Nadia L. Farjood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Published: Monday, March 28, 2011

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/3/28/intersex-conditions-people-honan/

To amplify the voices of people with intersex conditions and to shed light on the medicalization of intersex identities, The Women's Center handed the microphone at an event Friday to documentary filmmaker Robin Honan and intersex historian Elizabeth Reis to vocalize the crossroads of medical and social thought on intersex bodies.

The event, called "Recording Intersex," focused on the language used to discuss intersex individuals and examined how the term intersex has evolved. Honan introduced the term as a congenital condition in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that is "atypical," or does not conform with common definitions of female or male.