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Intersex and ISGD: yet another attempt to co-opt intersex?

Started by Shana A, May 21, 2011, 09:12:10 AM

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May 21, 2011, 09:12:10 AM
Intersex and ISGD: yet another attempt to co-opt intersex?

by admin on Saturday, 21 May, 2011

http://oiiaustralia.com/13588/isgd-attempts-colonize-intersex/

THE new catch-all term being heavily promoted in Sydney, "Intersex, Sex and/or Gender Diverse", comes across as yet another variation on what Alice Dreger and ISNA did with their attempt to erase intersex with DSD, standing for "Disorders of Sex Development".

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The clues are in the words and punctuation of the term itself. Let's take a look at them.

"Intersex, Sex and/or Gender Diverse" – it's a noun with some more nouns and an adjective tacked on at the end. Intersex is the noun while "sex and/or gender diverse" – what a mouthful – acts as an adjectival phrase elaborating on the primary noun.
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