Intersex people

[planeskeep]

Read about Intersex people at

Comments

[frugal_fox]

that's too bad. Is that where they have both female and male attributes???
I didn't actually read much off that link, as you can tell.

[planeskeep]

yeah, they have both male and female attributes. Most of the time they turn these people into "females." However, it usually doesn't work out, and most of the times the poeple forever feel uncomfortable in their bodies, never develope ful sexual organs, never can have children and usually almost never have the ability to experience orgasim.

[bassdrumdreams]

dan was reading on what might constitute as an intersex person and was a little grossed out. haha. Oh well! i found it a little unsettling myself...

but why???

[planeskeep]

i don't know why he would be grossed out, evidently about 1 in 100 children born aren't technically considered "male" or "female" by doctors.

Its not a rare occurance, and besides that, why the hell would it matter is a girl had an extremely large clit, or if a guy had an indentation (a minor "vagina" like structure)?

It seems to me they are entitled to live their live without people screwing with them, and messing up their bodies, or ruining their sex lives, or having people get grossed out.

Personally, i agree that they probably have something to learn here themselves, but if they gross someone else out, that other person has something to learn as well, and quite frankly, i don't think the other person is learning their lesson by cutting the misformed sexual organs to peices, and saying "looks good enough, I'm glad i don't have a transsexual child anymore"

[sien]

I agree whole heartedly and think it might be worth noting that we don't relate to people based on what their genitals look like anyways. There's only a small handfull of people I can say for sure have genitals that match their percieved gender (and that's only on the outside) but because we socialize people into two categories anyways (which I'm having my doubts about, especially considering instances like this) it's not hard to understand and trust the social cues that genderize people as men or women generally. I think intersexed babies could grow up a lot better than most people think, and would be better off left alone to define themselves as male, female or something else based on who they are and not what some "corrective" surgury has done to their genitals. It's as thuough we wouldn't know where to begin with a child if we didn't have the lable to tell us to dress them in pink or blue. And then later in life- who pays for the date? Should you get a hair cut you have to 'do' every morning or a short conservative cut?

[planeskeep]

Well, I'd have to say i completely agree...

[sien]

high fives all around

[planeskeep]

Woot.