Unfortunately on the terms of intersexual gender I cannot reclose my answer to just one respective question. Instead I must give a response that has an answer that covers all three questions. In my personal stand point, a naturally born intersexual individual is born in a station that is figuratively analogous to a gender anomaly, my reason for this is at the end of my blog. In some cases, such with Dr. Georgina, it is felt that some intersexual persons are born into a body that is not representative of their gender identification. That is that they do not feel as though they belong to both sexes but of a singular gender that may not be represented by their body’s natural physical features. In cases like these as Dr. Georgina stated that it can be surgically corrected to a physical form that is identifiable by the person. This task of genderization for lack of a better term should not be carried out by parents. If required a law should be placed that prohibits parents from having their child undergo any operation until the child has reached puberty and a dominate gender is seen. Even then, surgery must be with held until the child is at an age in teenage adolescence that they have identified with the gender of their choice whether male or female. It must also be taken under consideration the possibility of the child not wanting any surgical change or a move to go to male or female. What if that person chooses to remain in their natural state as a transsexual being? That must be allowed as well. This however creates another series of inquires.
What of the people that remain in a naturally transsexual state? What of transsexual persons whose parents decided not to gender orientate their child until puberty when a dominate gender was indentified? Or when the individual themselves agree on a singular gender at what age that may be; what is the grammatically correct term to represent these persons? In all instances of a naturally transgendered person the wrong label may be placed. They may be called a girl, she, female and feminine, whilst feeling masculine oriented. Just as likely they may be called a boy, he, male and masculine whilst feeling feminine oriented. And for societal standards, these labels must be given because a person does not normally enter the world without gender. We simply do not say to a parent “You have a beautiful transsexual!” We say you have a beautiful girl or handsome son.
What of persons that decide to remain in their natural state of intersex? What is the grammatically correct term given to these persons? We cannot call these persons ‘it’ as so many misunderstanding societal person may say. The term ‘it’ sounds and feels degrading, insulting and a terrible way to identify a person. To give them the wrong gender is terrible as well as I stated previously. So how do we as a society help naturally intersexual gendered person gain their gender identity?
There must be understanding, and some compromises. To say that five genders are needed; ferms, merms, male, female, and herm, is somewhat it irrational. If a person is intersexual, they are simply intersexual whether a herm, merm, or ferm, because in all three of these cases it is a hermaphroditic blending of the genders that make the person intersexual to begin with. Not how much male physiology or anatomy they have while being a woman, or how much female physiology or anatomy they have while being a man. To say there is a need for three gender categories instead of two is somewhat more understandable; a category of male, female and intersexual. This third category is not foreseeable in the next ten years argumentatively for the simple notion that the transsexual population is not even a quarter of the Earth’s population and may only be recognized as gender anomaly that is usually correct by natural transsexual persons. If the transsexual population were to increase greatly where one in four person are transsexual, we would not see the anomaly, but the third sex simply because it is then normal.
“If you claim that you are not vocalizing a stance then I will give my interpretation of your words.”
ReplyDeleteI am curious as to why you would insist on putting me on “a stance similar to [your] own.”
“Intersexual person are born with an anomaly of being neither male nor female but both.” I disagree with the assumption/conclusion of this statement. Why does an intersexual HAVE to be a combination of the socially created dichotomy? Why can’t intersexuals possess, or own, their own “division?” By labeling them as “both,” intersexuals become imprisoned within the associations and assumptions, usually the traps and fallacies, of the established norms. While it is true that biologically/medically they exhibit sexual characterstics of both sexes, my problem with identifying them as “both” is that it implies that there are strictly only two genders; intersexuals cannot become or form their own discrete identity outside of the already established binary.
“Until there is a point in which at least 1 in every 3 or 4 persons is an intersexual being that it can be looked upon as something that should be placed into greater focus of normalization.”
I apologize, I am confused by what you are trying to say in this statement. In any case, I may not have articulated this well enough in my post but my issue with choosing sides is that it is really none of my business. I don’t say this in apathy. Quite the opposite actually, I am purposely not taking a side because I have considered both sides and have concluded that I would be foolish and arrogant to make decisions for individuals with whom I cannot relate. If I were “forced” to make a decision, I would leave the choice of “treatment” to the individual after they had been properly and adequately informed of effects and implications/complications post-procedure.
Regarding your post, I think you have misinterpreted what it means to be intersexual. “a naturally born intersexual individual is born in a station that is figuratively analogous to a gender anomaly.” I may be mistaken but I believe that an intersexual is an individual that has physical (genetic) manifestations of both sexes. This individual is NOT “born in a station that is figuratively analogous to a gender anomaly” as gender is a socialized institution. Intersexuals are born only with some degree of “blending” of physical traits that are usually exclusive to either sex, or the “anomaly,” if you will.