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The use of discursive techniques as a means of objectification of marginalized groups
faceless people
by Curtis E. Hinkle

The purpose of this essay is to analyze the texts on the website of ISNA, the most visible organization in the field of intersex, in order to understand the different discursive techniques that the organization uses consciously or unconsciously that reduce very subjects of their discourse to silence.

Here is a summary of different techniques that I will address in this analysis:
1. There is no noun (name) used to (on) intersex (e).
2. Preponderance of blogs by people who are not intersex.
3. Almost exclusive concentration on the body
4. Total refusal to consider gender as an important issue for intersex (e) s.
5. Infantilization continual
6. Proliferation of medical discourse

After reading the articles on their site, I noticed that the total absence of a noun or name for people who are the object of their discourse is the most flagrant offense resulting from their way of controlling language to objectify and marginalize intersex (e) s. How is this possible? If you are talking about have no names, to name a noun, it gives the impression that the objects you are talking about have no substance, they are of no consequence. Otherwise, we create a name, a noun to categorize the subject of discussion. Instead of using a name like intersex (e), or the old term hermaphrodite, which is not biologically correct, but has great historical significance as name or category for us, we are constantly referred to as children or people with intersex, which requires us to disappear again in one of two categories of male / female that our bodies challenged first.

The refusal to use a name or create one that many intersex (s) agree dehumanizes the real subjects of their speeches because we must be willing to be seen through the prism of binary male or female before become the subject of discussion. It is an erasure and we disappear into a vacuum to become people without faces, the object that never dares to name.

However, if you analyze the text of the site you arrive at this conclusion, that is to say, there is no name for us on this site. That way, people who want to talk to us as objects have all the power discourse and the technique of objectification which supports all other result.

One other discursive techniques that represent the intersex (e) as an object without being able to do is to defer to others, especially women who do intersex is not talking to us. If you look at the site, almost all blogs on the site are controlled by women who speak for us but who are not intersex. In this way, the subject of their discourse is still a subject which we speak and never direct voice as narrator actual speech.

Thus, we can fix the attention of the reader to the body without ever talking to the person in the body in question. When it comes to us is almost always in our body, another form of objectification and to immobilize the object, it precludes any discussion of gender by stating it's a question that is not important to us. However, almost always (te) s and intersex (s) with whom I have spoken have told me that gender issues are very important for her / them. But if you start talking like that, we begin to humanize the subject and we must address the taboo subject of this site, the identity of people are talking about. If it gives identity to the subject, we risk losing control of speech and others could more easily ask you to explain why these are people who are not intersexed who speak for us all the time and why they exert so much control with words, definitions of topics without leaving their site about the subjects themselves of their identities, their experiences in a society that has no place for them.

Another technique is the discursive continuing infantilisation of intersex (e). By that I mean that most of all discussions on the site talks about us as children. This is important. But by focusing attention on a small child still, it gives the impression that we need others to speak as a child is not able to speak. If intersex (s) talked about their own lives as adults, we should make every issue of definitions, terms and all the talk about this site because it would be more obvious that the subjects in question here on their site are almost entirely absent.

And finally, the proliferation of medical discourse that fixes attention on the pathology of subjects undermines all the efforts of our emancipation from the institution which aims to erase us. The purpose of the medicalization of intersex (s) is to make us disappear. The normalization of our bodies and our gender are used to protect the status quo because our lives would destabilize the entire binary system.

These discursive techniques dehumanizes us and we returned (s) people without faces we have found in medical texts when we were young and we wept to see our own bodies exhibited as freaks. Voiceless, faceless, without a place. We hid (e) s and the shame continues.

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A recipe from the book "Dessert" ed. Marabout

for 20 pieces

60g raisins 80ml dark rum

200g dark chocolate 60g unsalted butter

125g caster sugar
250ml double cream 125g flour

3 eggs, beaten
cocoa P.

1. Preheat oven to 180 ° C.
2. Lightly grease a cake tin and line the bottom with parchment paper in the protruding sue two opposite sides.
3. Combine raisins and rum. Chochlat Break into pieces and put it with the diced butter in a heatproof container.
4. Melt in double boiler, stirring occasionally, then add the powdered sugar and cream.
5. Sift flour into a bowl. Add the rum-raisin mixture and melted chocolate, then eggs. Mix.
6. Pour this unit into the pan and smooth the surface. Bake 25 to 30 min.
7. Cool completely, then refrigerate the cake overnight before cutting it into blocks. Sprinkle generously with cocoa.
   
   

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Why ISNA does not speak for many of us

by Curtis E.
Hinkle Founder, OII
http://www.intersexualite.org/

ISNA (The Intersex Society of North America) promotes not only the pathologizing of intersex but also marginalizes those who want to celebrate diversity within our community.
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almost eight years I listen to and dialogue with intersex people worldwide. Almost tou (te) s feel excluded (e) s and again denied (s) by the normative discourse and binary ISNA.

The following quotes are typical found on their website. They are in bold:

"Intersex is mainly a problem of stigma and trauma, not gender."

We are very far from what hundreds of intersex people worldwide have told me when speaking of their lives, their identities and their problems. According to them / them, gender issues are more important than many other issues. Stereotypes and prejudices that he / she must face every day is a daily loss. Many of them have an identity intergender and others are transgender. Claim that gender issues are not a major problem for intersex people is a hocus-pocus that we once again reduced to objects of biological specimens.

In this way, the author (s) of articles on the website of ISNA, most of whom are women and not intersex, a normative discourse can continue based on our body and avoid listen to the people who inhabit these bodies.

"All children should be assigned boy or girl, but without surgery."

Why? Why should we still assign male or female to every child? Although the Act says every child must be legally boy or girl, I think the state should not rely on such a division of persons, whether "intersex" or not to lock them in a straitjacket of identity inadequate. If a child is unable to express its kind, why should we give to someone else the right to do so in its place?

What ISNA recommend for children with intersex.
(Article Title)

According to ISNA, we're not intersex but simply men and women "with intersex." For many of us it is very offensive. Intersex is a condition as could be diabetes. We are intersexed, that is our identity.

Other examples:
- Children with intersex
- Children and adults with intersex
- of Newborns with Intersex
- We have assembled a group of experts including healthcare professionals, adults with intersex and a parent to discuss these issues.

"Does ISNA think children with intersex should be raised without a genre, or in a third kind?"
(Headline)

The author, Alice Dreger says that there is nothing outside of both normative gender (boy or girl). Many of us do not agree. Instead of clearing and the identity of many intersex people, why not say clearly that this view is binary incompatible with the notion of representativeness which that person and rely ISNA? Most intersex people I know find it bizarre to say the least for a group claiming to represent us.

"Second, the most important thing for us is to try to create a world where children with intersex may live in safety. Give them a kind of non-existent label will not help. (Duh, huh)?"

What arrogance! Alice Dreger, who is not intersexed, and who speaks for us, but do not listen to us, telling us that our kind does not exist by "essence" and ended this statement invisibilization on intonation in English very offensive "Duh" - a word we use in English to emphasize the stupidity of such an idea. Well, me, I would ask him his definition of any sex or gender as "essence", including all members of that class. Gender or the feminine gender are they categories by "essence"? A woman without a uterus is it, for Mrs. Dreger, a woman ... or another "thing" without identity? Why not allow those concerned to determine their identity, what is "essential" for them?

It is free to be a woman but is obviously unable to understand our true nature. I do not want him but do the others, those who do not meet the "coefficient normative" or unwilling to submit to the dictates gender, should not have that same choice? Before speaking to intersex people, we must listen and understand that many of us will not say aloud what we think quietly. We have been indoctrinated (s) by a gender system still prevalent where people with a voice are irrelevant. God have mercy on us, we are in the hands of experts!

But is that all this does not simply lack of humanity? We have learned and continue to learn in the pain that we do not feel male or female often has serious consequences on our lives everyday. A heavy silence is imposed upon us throughout our lives because the power of phonies "who know what is good for us is overwhelming. How not to be tragic contemplation of an organization to help intersex people who adopt the same method dictatorial? The denial of our lives we are condemned to invisibility.

The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) is the primary source for people seeking information and advice about atypical reproductive anatomy and disorders of sexual differentiation (DSD).

Well now, ISNA has decided to change the name of the disease, as if this clever modification would change anything in practice. And more ISNA claims not play a semantic game.

We read the following on their website in their definition for intersex:

"Rather than trying to play a semantic game that never ends ever, we at ISNA we take a pragmatic approach on the question of who counts as intersex person. "

The denial of the identity of intersex people is not a game This often has serious consequences ISNA will one day assume.

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The McDonaldization of intersex activism

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The McDonaldization of intersex activism by Curtis E. Hinkle

of the International Organization of intersex

After reading following section on the website of ISNA,
http://www.isna.org/faq/not_eradicating_gender
I knew he had to break the silence and speak frankly about the exclusion and marginalization of many intersex people I know by the groups we represent.

Imagine a world in which the main division between people is the weight. This is the first thing noticed at birth to be recorded on all birth certificates - lean or obese.

Imagine a world in which obese dominated scarce and where it would be almost impossible for a thin person to become an obese person and vice versa.

Imagine a world where people of medium build could not exist legally, except in one of two legal categories - fat or thin.

To read more:
http://www.cmaq.net/fr/node/23809

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Test your IQ (Intersex Quotient)

Have fun! These tests are used to explain why any definition of different sexes and genders is complicated and probably impossible.

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us resist all sexism

by Curtis Hinkle
Organization Intersex International es

Here are the various forms of sexism that our members frequently experience intersex / intergender:
1) The idea received that there can be only two sexes / two genera.
2) The claim that intersex people undergo pathology is identical to the ruling that homosexuality was a disease a few decades ago.
3) The rejection of intersex people who identify outside of the binary.
4) Exclusion of women intersex groups of lesbians and other women's groups.
5) "Féminophobie (condescension towards behavior and gender generally considered typically female).
6) The Transphobia is particularly offensive when it comes from groups of people intersex.

To read the article.

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10 misconceptions about intersex

1. Intersex means that a person has two genitals
2. 1 in 2000 infants is born intersex
3. Intersex has to do with homosexuality
4. Intersex has nothing to do with gender (Posted on the homepage of ISNA)
5. Intersex is part of the transgender movement
6. Only true hermaphrodites are real hermaphrodites
7. The transsexualism is not an intersex condition.
8. The intersex movement is a movement like other identity movements GLBT
9. Most intersex were assigned female
10. Intersex is a condition treatable

To read the entire article, click here.

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From the violent binary construction of Sex * / **

From the violent binary construct of gender * / **
Antke Engel
Translated from German by E. Curtis Hinkle

Historically, the intersexed, people whose sex can not be clearly defined as male or female, trying to educate the public about their experiences with cultural taboos, standardization and mandatory practice Medical violent. Until the 20th century, i they were classified as hermaphrodites es. The so-called medical progress has not only pathologized-es, but in addition it has medicalized their existence. Currently, they have invented a new term, that of "intersex" as a political category, often after having lived for years in one sex that had been assigned strength.

Read on.