Imagine this scenario: New parents anticipating the birth of their child are shocked when the hospital staff is uncertain about the child's gender. The doctors recommend immediate genital surgery to give the child a clearly assigned (read: chosen) gender. The parents follow the doctor's advice only to discover that when the child goes through puberty the selected gender is not the one the child would choose for himself or herself...

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"Cay Crow: Intersex individuals challenge our perceptions of gender"

Editorial comment: replace "who feels that his or her" with "whose" in paragraph 3.

Didn't you say that your gender was female, Emi? It's been a long time since we have had a discussion and I am sure you don't remember me. Why can't a transsexual have a gender different from what their sexual apparatus would indicate?

We transsexuals cite the David Reimer case too. Intersexes aren't the only ones confused by their bodies. And David was neither intersexed nor transsexual.

Just for the record--

Pistakee Dawn

I think bodies are confusing to everyone because there is such a strict regulation of what they are supposed to look like and do.

Sometimes a person feels like a man, but has a woman's body. Sometimes genitals don't clearly look like a penis or a vagina. Sometimes people whose bodies are "the same" sex (because two bodies can be the same) want to have sex with each other. Even people with an socially acceptable gender and sexuality (straight man or woman) are subject to bodily gender regulation. Breasts or penises are too big or too small, a person can be too fat or too muscular, too tall, too short. Why can't we all just be the bodies and the people we are?