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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