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rmI was going to chuck this into sundries, but then some of you might miss it, and it needs to be talked about.
Over at Cornell we have a case of gender and body policing, unnecessary surgery, and stimulating 6-year-old girls with vibrators in the name of dodgy science.
Really helps to confirm my suspicion that the only good girl is one who knows how to disappear, doesn't it? And if she can't figure out the skill of it, don't worry, someone will hold her down and do it for her.
I won't ask you what this fear of big clits is, since we can all figure it out, but did you know that women with larger clitorises are also more likely to identify as gay?
Yup, that's right, one of the many HORRIFYING implications here is all about trying to erase queerness, erase the existence of people like me (and let's note the particularities of this particular act of hate, since there is also a correlation between larger penises and men being gay, but no one is cutting into these suspect little boys).
Things that will never make any queer woman less queer: hair removal, makeup, self-hatred, dresses, boyfriends, surgery, "therapy." My mother used to buy me electric razors, over and over.
All of this speaks with terrible eloquence to the suspicion I often harbour that the most inherently queer thing about me is my unwillingness to disappear.
If you don't get how all of this connects, you should probably go read Valerie's Letter again and again and again until you do.
An inch.
One inch.
Get it?
Over at Cornell we have a case of gender and body policing, unnecessary surgery, and stimulating 6-year-old girls with vibrators in the name of dodgy science.
Really helps to confirm my suspicion that the only good girl is one who knows how to disappear, doesn't it? And if she can't figure out the skill of it, don't worry, someone will hold her down and do it for her.
I won't ask you what this fear of big clits is, since we can all figure it out, but did you know that women with larger clitorises are also more likely to identify as gay?
Yup, that's right, one of the many HORRIFYING implications here is all about trying to erase queerness, erase the existence of people like me (and let's note the particularities of this particular act of hate, since there is also a correlation between larger penises and men being gay, but no one is cutting into these suspect little boys).
Things that will never make any queer woman less queer: hair removal, makeup, self-hatred, dresses, boyfriends, surgery, "therapy." My mother used to buy me electric razors, over and over.
All of this speaks with terrible eloquence to the suspicion I often harbour that the most inherently queer thing about me is my unwillingness to disappear.
If you don't get how all of this connects, you should probably go read Valerie's Letter again and again and again until you do.
An inch.
One inch.
Get it?
Intersex surgery
Date: 2010-06-24 12:01 am (UTC)nearly all of these articles are in Journals that are available to the medical profession and academics. Organizations like OII have to pay $30 a view for each article. The journals do not provide pro bono access to organisations that Include the subjects of the articles.
The behavior of the physicians involved in this procedure are participating in child sexual assault, pure and simple, the veneer of medical necessity and scientific inquiry should provide no immunity to this appalling behavior .
The reporters, Dreager and Feder , rather decrying the activities in academic journals Intersex are unlikely to have access to , should have reported this to the police and the child welfare authorities.
Both Dreager and Feder participated in the DSD consensus forum and Dreager invented the pathologising term Disorders of Sexual development to replace the word Intersex. The pathologising of Intersex differences was always going to lead to this kind of behavior by medical experts. Intersex was abandoned because the medical profession did not control the terminology or the protocols that surrounded various Intersex differences. Now with full control of both medicine is free to "cure" intersex and experiment , sexually, with infants to test the efficacy of those "cures"
I call on Alice d Dreager and Ellen K Feder to declare the introduction of DSD a failure, to admit it has not stopped the unacceptable behaviors by the medical profession on Intersex individuals, it has not resulted in long term follow up studies as it called for and it has not improved the lot of Intersex.
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