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Title: thoughts on intersex ethics.
Post by: Natasha on September 17, 2008, 06:26:44 PM
Post by: Natasha on September 17, 2008, 06:26:44 PM
thoughts on intersex ethics.
http://sigmadeltalove.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/thoughts-on-intersex-ethics/ (http://sigmadeltalove.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/thoughts-on-intersex-ethics/)
9/17/2008
The idea is suggested that that there are hundreds of possible sexes a human can posses. Our bodies are presented as "active" participants in the environment of sexual and gender impositions, before which they have often been seen as to be neutral ground. Basing gender off of assumptions of genital differentiation whether or not we actually see the genitals, seems to have become the norm of a culture that reads into pre-presumed identity markers and imposes itself upon them. Is this then, why when a child is born "intersexed" that they must be "fixed" under circumstances of a "medical necessity" (which by the way IS the politically correct term for the situation)?
http://sigmadeltalove.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/thoughts-on-intersex-ethics/ (http://sigmadeltalove.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/thoughts-on-intersex-ethics/)
9/17/2008
The idea is suggested that that there are hundreds of possible sexes a human can posses. Our bodies are presented as "active" participants in the environment of sexual and gender impositions, before which they have often been seen as to be neutral ground. Basing gender off of assumptions of genital differentiation whether or not we actually see the genitals, seems to have become the norm of a culture that reads into pre-presumed identity markers and imposes itself upon them. Is this then, why when a child is born "intersexed" that they must be "fixed" under circumstances of a "medical necessity" (which by the way IS the politically correct term for the situation)?