Understanding Intersex
Current News has a fascinating mini-documentary on an “intersex” person called “I’m 80% Girl and 20% Boy”.
As we understand more about gender and sexual identity as a biological phenomenon, not simply a “choice” (as some would have you believe), hopefully we’ll see more acceptance of people who don’t fit neatly into the rather confining boxes of gender roles. People like the Intersex person in the film walk in both “worlds.” We can learn a great deal about just how constructed our ideas about gender are from someone who has one chosen for them.
[Photo by Crushed Planet]
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Kind of hard to understand from someone firmly and proudly on the male side of the fence, but oh well. It’s her/his own way. I don’t know why many men, young or otherwise, would have problem with trans/intersex; to me it speaks more to a lack of male identity in the mocker than in the mocked. If you’re comfortable with being male, then it shouldn’t matter jack shit what others identify with.
(Side note: when referring to intersex persons, would one use the pronoun “they” in place of gender-specific pronouns?)
October 22nd, 2008 at 7:49 pm@Angus : regarding your side note, instead of he or she we are to use the word shkle. And instead of him or her we are to use the word shklim or shkler.
November 28th, 2008 at 7:21 amLeave a reply :