How Conservatives Created (and Cancelled) Gender
Alexander Avila
The link below will jump you straight to the point: Dr John Money, the bigoted man who brought the word gender into modern medicine. Notably, this video discusses surgery to make the bodies of intersex children conform to social norms, but fails to discuss surgery to make the bodies of endosex boys conform to social norms. Stop leaving circumcision out.
What they do to #intersex children should HORRIFY everyone.
"Removal of gonads can end options for fertility and will lead to lifelong need for hormone #therapy. The genital surgeries done on intersex children can result in loss of sexual sensation and ongoing #pain. The procedures are #irreversible, in that tissue or organs that are removed cannot be replaced, nerves that are severed cannot be regrown, and scar tissue can limit options for future surgery."
"Two common goals of these cosmetic 'normalizing' surgeries on children’s genitals are to enable #heterosexual penetrative intercourse, and to help the child #conform to #gender and sexual norms"
I've been earwormed by this song a lot and I love the translation of the delightful lyrics, but I'm going to write the title as "Gender Queer" going forward as that is more faithful to the lyrics than the literal title "雌雄同體" (by 五月天/Mayday) and the English translation of that phrase is potentially offensive to intersex people.
Sorry, but "assigned sex at birth" is still not the right question to be asking people because almost 2% of the population is #intersex or born with some intersex traits, and their genetics and/or physiology do not match whatever snap decision that was made in the delivery room after a few moments of a dude eyeballing the baby's junk.
Provincializing Intersex: U.S. Intersex Activism, Human Rights, and Transnational Body Politics
D. A. Rubin, 2019
"the transnational regulation of sexed bodies occurs not only through the globalization of Western biomedical conceptions of sex/gender normativity, but also through global circulations of human rights discourse and impositions of US neoliberal democratic frames of subjectivity."
"The United Nations Human Rights Council voted Thursday to adopt a first-of-its-kind initiative protecting the rights of intersex people. Twenty-four countries voted in favor of the draft resolution…"
PSA to everyone to not use brave browser @brave, the CEO of Brave Software is bigoted (donated to anti-lgbtqia+ organizations trying to ban gay marriage in the past and still has never addressed it or apologized) and was also against the Covid Lockdowns and is anti-vax. Using brave browser contributes to oppression of LGBTQIA+ ppl and contributes to brave software financially through ads and other means.
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There are over 30 intersex variations with varying degrees of impact. For some, intersex features are noticeable from birth, while others don’t realise until they try for children. For more information, read:
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> Sponsors of House Bill 421 say they want to provide consistency across state statute when it comes to definitions. Some Idahoans argue it goes further than that.
you just don’t hear about it because folks aren’t running around advertising what’s in their pants.
This is crazy to me. I mean I don’t understand why people live in Florida in the first place, it’s always humid and disgusting and a sinkhole could open up at any moment and swallow your whole entire entire house. But this is crazy.
“Well, the other day the state of Florida outlawed these documents for Floridians, making owning them an arrestable offense, but also intentionally made the application of the law so vague that it is applicable to everyone that’s had a name and gender marker change in any state. I had my documents updated to best reflect who I medically was born as according to my doctors.
It would be illegal for me to use my identity documents in any official capacity, like operating a motor vehicle, boarding flights, filing I-9 documents with a Florida based employer, filing Florida state taxes, or going to school. For those still in Florida who are in my shoes, you could add voting to this list of things that will get someone thrown in jail.”
It is now against the law for me to drive or go to school in #Florida because I’m a #woman : r/TwoXChromosomes https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/1afteeh/it_is_now_against_the_law_for_me_to_drive_or_go/
Evidentemente non sono l'unica incazzata nera dell'eccessivo interesse che alcuni, anche su LS stesso, hanno nel rimuovere diritti umani, adducendo motivazioni a loro detta "biologiche" (leggervi altrove dove parlate della "giustizia" dell'escludere le persone #trans e #intersex dagli sport è sempre una bella pozza d'ignoranza e merda)
Always trouble: Gender before and after Gender Trouble
Isabell Dahms, Radical Philosophy (2020)
"The child psychologist John Money, who treated intersex babies, was the first to use the linguistic category of gender as a clinical and diagnostic tool."
Gender-affirming care has a long history in the US – and not just for transgender people
G. Samantha Rosenthal for The Conversation (2023)
"Because of binary gender norms that celebrate height in men and smallness in women, doctors, parents and ethicists have approved the use of hormonal therapies to make children conform to these gender stereotypes since at least the 1940s."
"Historians such as Jules Gill-Peterson have shown that early advances in transgender medicine in this country are deeply interwoven with the nonconsensual treatment of intersex children. Doctors at Johns Hopkins and the University of Virginia practiced reconstructing the genitalia of intersex people before applying those same treatments on transgender patients."