#intersex José

[wheredidalltheusersgo]

José if he served

This design was inspired by @chris-mclean-has-me-by-the-neck 's josé design! PLEASE go look at her design, it's so scrumptious (the bull necklace design was also inspired by her)

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Michael K. Lavers at The Washington Blade:

The Peruvian government on May 10 published a decree that classifies transgender people as mentally ill. Human Rights Watch on Wednesday noted the country’s Essential Health Insurance Plan that President Dina Boluarte, Health Minister César Vásquez and Economic and Finance Minister José Arista signed references “ego-dystonic sexual orientation.” The decree also notes, among other things, “transsexualism” and “gender identity disorder in childhood. Human Rights Watch in its press release notes the Health Ministry subsequently said it does not view LGBTQ identities as “illnesses.” Peruvian LGBTQ advocacy groups, however, have sharply criticized the decree.

The Peruvian government issued a hateful and bigoted decree that baselessly declares trans, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary people to be “mentally ill.”

See Also:

The Advocate: Rep. Robert Garcia calls out Peru for classifying trans, intersex & nonbinary people as mentally ill

[identitty-dickruption]

Hello, I'm very sorry to bother you. I am about to ask a long and possibly ignorant question. If you don't feel comfortable answering or you simply don't want to (it isn't your job to educate other people, I know that) I totally understand it. Just know that I'm coming from lack of knowledge, not lack of respect.

I just saw this post (couldn't find the original one, sorry) and I wanted to clarify. What exactly do you mean intersex people shouldn't been brought up during debates about gender and sex? I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying that I don't understand.

Everything else in the post, I'm clear about, but when transphobos say shit like "you are biologically either a man or a woman and you cannot change that because you cannot change your chromosomes," I do consider it worth mentioning that biological sex isn't as easy of a topic as they think it is. Human bodies are not always clearly, unquestionably either male or female. And sometimes a person is sure she is clearly, unquestionably female and then, one day when she's 25 years old, she takes a sex verification test for the Olympics and turns out she has XY chromosomes, like María José Martínez Patiño, so chromosomes clearly are a lame excuse for transphobos to use. I'm not gonna give more examples because you probably have heard many at this point and I'm sure you understand intersex topics better than I do, but I think I made clear my point.

If we don't expect all intersex people to live as multigender or nonbinary, then why would someone expect all perisex people to live only as their agab, when we know that everything regarding biological sex (chromosomes, gonads, reproductive system and hormonal production) means nothing when we talk about gender identity?

Again, I'm not trying to say that you're wrong, I just want to understand. Why using an argument like this would be wrong?

hello. out of all the points on that post, this is the one I get challenged on the most, for exactly the points you make — biological sex isn’t binary, it’s bimodal, so talking about intersex people makes sense to a lot of people when they enter these debates. I stand by what I said though

firstly. TERFs, on the most part, don’t see intersex people as intersex. they already have a standard response to this and it’s, “those people just have disorders of sex development, they’re still predominantly either male or female”. TERFs know the cases of intersex athletes very well, and they have ways to talk around it. so, like. this argument doesn’t even work nine times out of ten. it just forces intersex people to see yet more people label them as defective for the sake of a debate

secondly, being used as a gotcha in debates is a microaggression when you consider that it’s usually the only time I see people talk about me and my community. dyadic queer people + allies will acknowledge intersex people exist so they can win a debate, and then never talk about us or think about us again

this is particularly true when these same people will make incredibly intersexist arguments within the same debate

they’ll say things like “nobody’s forcing HRT onto children!” when hi! that happens to intersex kids and teens all the time. they’ll say “cis kids with hormonal disorders get approval for HRT, what’s the difference?” when, again. we’re not “cis kids with hormonal disorders”, we’re intersex people who are forced into unwanted medical treatment all the time

I don’t want my existence used as a debate point if you’re only going to think about me when you can frame it as a zinger or a takedown. I don’t want support because of my position in “the trans debate”, I want support because people actually care about me and my struggles

[sminsmith]

Queer & Trans Theory

The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

Collaboratively written by the Beyond Gender Research Collective

“In this chapter, we follow Donna Haraway’s assertion that ‘science fiction is political theory’ to read Rivers Solomon’s SF novel The Deep (2019) as and alongside contemporary queer and trans theory. We argue that queer science fiction is not simple escapism, but a tool for refashioning the self and the present. Queer and trans writers and artists are not fleeing from the world as much as they are reshaping it by crafting science-fictional worlds which defy the stultifying norms of hetero- and cis-normativity. These re-imaginings of the self and communities are intertwined with the embodied reality of queer experience, and Solomon’s novel exemplifies sf’s ability to grapple with the various facts and fictions used to police queer and trans lives, such as the purported primacy of biological sex and kinship. Articulated in three interconnected sections, our chapter first uses Elizabeth Freeman’s concept of ‘temporal drag’ to find a purposeful re-writing and mythmaking in Solomon’s work that counters the violence of white supremacy. We then turn, via the work of Alexis Pauline Gumbs, to examine Solomon’s rejection of the natural world as an implicitly heteronormative realm. Instead, faer embraces the many parthenogenetic, intersex, polymaternal and decidedly non-normative creatures of the deep. Lastly we find in Solomon’s rejection of heteronormative kinship an imagining of collective being and reproduction that resonates with Sophie Lewis’s concept of amniotechnics and José Esteban Munoz’s vision of queer utopia. Finally, we turn outward to suggest that Solomon’s The Deep is not a static text, but one that constantly invites its reader to transform the story – and possibly, the world."

Editors: Mark Bould, Andrew Butler, & Sherryl Vint

[markdigitalcr]

No hay población que sea más discriminada en los últimos años que la población conservadora, indica Carballo

San José, 27 jun – La diputada de la Unidad Social Cristiana, María Marta Carballo, criticó el proyecto 23.809, presentado por la diputada del Frente Amplio, Priscilla Vindas, Ley de reconocimiento de identidades trans, no binarias, de género diverso e intersex. Carballo señaló que “yo respeto a todo ser humano, no comparto algunas cosas pero… No hay población que sea más discriminada en los…

[yourdailyqueer]

Maria José Martínez-Patiño

Gender: Female

Sexuality: N/A

DOB: 10 July 1961

Ethnicity: White - Spanish

Occupation: Former prof athletics athlete, writer, activist

Note: Is Intersex

[transmascrage]

Florencio Pla Meseguer, born in 1917, and known as La Pastora, was a shepherd who fought in the resistance against Francisco Franco.

He was intersex, but his parents declared him female. The reason given is different from account to account, some say his father was worried military service would be embarrassing for him, and others say his mother didn't want him to face discrimination.

In an interview in the book "Teresa / Florencio Pla Meseguer "La Pastora". Del monte al mito," by José Calvo Segarra, he says:

When I was born, they put my female name on the parish register, because it was evident that I was not normal, and no one really understood whether I was male or female.

“At least a female must not go as a soldier. A male gets undressed for the visit, and who knows what a shame it would be to be seen like this”. She was thinking of me, my poor mother.

Then he says:

"(…) Do you mean if I felt like a man?

Later, yes, when I was older, and it made me feel bad that everyone saw me as a woman. But back then, as a young girl, I didn't want to think about it and didn't think about it.

I was me, and I was made as I was made. I couldn't choose. I had never chosen anything since I was born, not even a small thing. Never. Could I have chosen the way I was made? I had to take myself as I was and peace. (…)"

And again, when the commander of the partisans came to ask him if he wanted to join:

"Pastora, what are you planning to do?"

Some nights, when we had been drinking, I had told him that I felt more like a man than a woman.

My mother used to say that I was female and I stayed female, but I have everything men have: my strength, my beard, my way of doing things, my wickedness. But people see malice everywhere.

“Because they are ignorant, Pastora, because the fascists who have won the war don't care that people learn, it's better for them all to remain donkeys. What they want is for everything to remain the same, for the poor to break their backs to work, for them not to know how to read, because revolutions are made with books ”.

But what do books matter if people laugh at me?

"They matter, Pastora, matter. In the party, they teach you that people, all people, have dignity and deserve respect, and this is learned in books, there you learn freedom. "

Throughout his life, people were invasive of his genitalia, up to a real episode where he was forced to strip to see "what he was hiding under the skirt.":

"(…) But I'm from here and everyone laughs at me, and they want to see what I have between my legs, only by frightening them have I managed to stay in peace. It's hard, Catalán, a whole life like this. (…)".

And later, when he's asked to join the partisan group and he refuses because he can't fight in petticoats, there's this conversation:

“Didn't I tell you that everyone in the guerrilla is whatever they want? Do you feel like a man, Pastora?".

"Yes," I told him, and looked at the ground as I said it.

“So you'll be. Come with me to my sister's house tonight. She'll cut your hair and dress you like a man. And Teresa can go fuck herself, do you understand? Fuck her! ".

He said that while he was hiding with his companion in the mountains, he thought this:

I kept going, in the mountains there is always a lot to do and I wasn't bored.

I was just sorry I didn't have any sheep with me. I missed the sheep, perhaps because they were the only thing someone like me could miss.

At night we would come to mind many things in my life. I thought I'd missed what everyone had, children and a wife. That I had worked like a beast. That joining the partisans had been good for many reasons, bad for others.

Nice because I had found real companions, because I was finally able to be a man. Because I had learned to read.

Bad because the revolution didn't happen in the end and because the things I had learned hurt my heart.

Now I knew what the dignity of the person was, I knew that we have rights and what exploitation is. And all of this made me think my life had been shit, without anything a man should have.

I imagined what it would have been like if it had gone differently. If my mother hadn't been ashamed of me and she hadn't forced me to be a woman. If I could have gone to school. It hurt my heart to think about it at night, locked inside the cave.

And then I would take the blanket and go out into the open air, lie down and look at the sky, as when I was a shepherd. If it was clear and you could see the stars, I already felt better.

His companion Francisco (I'm not sure if he was his lover or just his comrade.) was killed in the resistance, and Florencio served 17 years in prison.

When he was released, he lived in a small hut with two dogs. It seems he legally changed his name in 1980, approved because of the fact that the urologist and gynecologist that visited him to decide which prison he should be put in, had decided his anatomy was that of a man. He died in 2004.

Obviously, I won't put a label on him, since he was intersex it'd be wrong to declare he was trans, or cis for that matter. I'm only using he/him pronouns because it would feel disrespectful to read all the excerpts where he mentions feeling like a man, and then referring to him as she/her. Besides he used he/him pronouns to refer to himself as well,

However, his experience is very close to transmascs, and obviously to other intersex people, so I wanted to share this story. I think the language he uses to express his identity is the closest to what trans people use nowadays.

He's also described as a "monstrous woman" in articles reporting about his life, and a "lesbian with criminal tendencies.", which is why I'm tagging this as transandrophobia, not because I'm labeling him as transmasc.

[ladychlo]

Chay, hello! Can you recommend me some books or articles or Instagram people or a way to start to learn about gender? I want to educate myself but I’m not too sure where to start. Thanks xx💖

hello dear!! hope you're having a lovely day, these are some sources but there are more out there ofc, hope they can be of useful!!

Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic

The Future of Sex and Gender in Psychology: Five Challenges to the Gender Binary

Definitions Related to Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity in APA Documents

What Does It Really Mean to Be Queer?

The Gay ABCs of LGBT and All about pronouns!

Cisgender Privilege Checklist

A MAP OF GENDER-DIVERSE CULTURES

Alok Vaid-Menon Tells Us What It's Like To Be Femme In Public also follow their instagram

Challenging the Gender Binary with Alok Vaid-Menon

How To Shake Up Gender Norms

Transgender 101: A folder of resources on transgender and nonbinary identities.

Let’s Learn about Intersex.

What’s the DNA of Desire? How the “born this way” narrative of identity is holding the queer community back.

The invention of ‘heterosexuality’

Key Terms

Gopinath, Gayatri. Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures.

Quare’ Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know About Queer Studies I Learned from My Grandmother

There Is No Perfect Word: A Transgender Glossary of Sorts

Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability by Robert McRuer

Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics by José Esteban Muñoz

also some useful links from a queer theory course I have taken a while ago!

List of Queer and Genderqueer Literature

Queering Religion:

Reform Judaism and LGBT equality https://reformjudaism.org/jewish-views-lgbt-equality

LGBTQ affirming mosques: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/affirming-mosques-help-gay-muslims-reconcile-faith-sexuality-n988151

LGBTI Hindus: https://www.galva108.org/

LGBTQ Mormons https://affirmation.org/

LGBTQI Catholics https://www.dignityusa.org/

Metropolitan Community Church, https://www.mccchurch.org/.

Olivares, Xorje. Queer Sex and Spirituality Can Coexist — LGBTQ+ People of Faith Tell All. https://www.them.us/story/queer-and-religious

Queer/Religion: http://sfonline.barnard.edu/queer-religion/

Queer Theology: https://www.queertheology.com/

Queer in Faith: https://queerinfaith.com/

Zainab. Queer Muslim Women Reflect On Navigating Their Faith and Sexuality: https://www.them.us/story/queer-muslim-women

Knoll, Benjamin (2016). Youth Suicide Rates And Mormon Religious Context: An Additional Empirical Analysis. Dialogue, Summer 2016. https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Knoll4902.pdf

if someone would like to add more please feel free to do so <3

[makiruz]

“Gender Testing” in sports is and always have been about intersex people.

The whole thing started in the games in Berlin 1936 (the ones in Nazi Germany in case you didn’t know) targeting Stanisława Walasiewicz (aka Stella Walsh) an intersex woman, and AFAB intersex athletes Mark Weston (born Mary Louise Edith Weston) and Zdeněk Koubek (born Zdena Koubková).

Later examples famous examples were Heinrich Ratjen (born Dora Ratjen) AFAB intersex man, Foekje Dillema an intersex woman, Ewa Kłobukowska another intersex woman, Erik Schinegger (born Erika Schinegger) AFAB intersex man, Maria José Martínez-Patiño intersex woman. Even this century we have:Pratima Gaonkar an intersex woman (who killed herself after failing the sex test), Santhi Soundarajan, Dutee Chand, and of course Caster Semenya, all of them intersex women of color

So clearly, “sex testing” or “gender testing” has never been about “fairness” or “protecting females” it’s about policing intersex people’s bodies

[anxious-ace]

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️⚧ for the phantom smp oc! I would to know more about them!

So for Evelyn, she uses she/her pronouns (although Enderians don't really have gender), she is a cis, asexual lesbian also.

Kenny uses all pronouns, that means he's Genderfluid and she's pansexual as well.

Henry is a trans gay man who uses he/him pronouns.

Ellie: asexual. Demi-girl. She/they 

Leon Kelly: pansexual. Intersex. He/they

Edison: apothisexual. Agender. They/them

Jade Boone: bisexual. Non-binary. They/them 

Franky Holmes: lesbian. Demi-girl. She/they

Jordan Blackwell: asexual aromatic. Questioning. Uses he/him

Cyris Travis: gay. Trans male. He/they

Jackson: gay. Demi-boy. He/they

Adrian: lesbian. Trans female. She/her

Björn: pansexual. Cis male. He/him

Sadie: bisexual. Cis female. She/her

Aria: bisexual. Non-binary. They/them

Alice: lesbian. Cis  female. she/her pronouns

Ambre: bisexual. Trans demi-girl, she/they.

Alphonse: bisexual. Cis male. He/him

Louis: gay. Cis male. He/him.

Baylee: asexual lesbian. Trans female. She/her

Jayda: lesbian. Trans female. She/her

Milonia: bisexual. Non-binary, they/them.

"Missy": nblw. Non-binary, they/them.

Greta Lemmer: asexual. Gender fluid, uses all pronouns.

Amadou Dubost: bisexual. Demigirl, she/they

José Soldado: pansexual. Non-binary. They/them pronouns.

Elbert White: gay. Trans man, he/him pronouns.

Arthur Hydrus: pansexual. gender fluid, all pronouns.

Lyco: omisexual. Intersex. He/him

Ophelia: lesbian. Cis female. She/her

Louis Jones: gay. Trans male. He/him

Alfie Meyer: asexual. Non-binary. They/them

Lydia Castex: lesbian. Demigirl. She/they

Bernadette Arnoldi: pansexual. Trans woman. She/her

Rocio Arán: asexual aromatic. Cis female. She/her.

I just started copying and pasting from a Google doc I had already made because it would've taken a while for me to type it out.

[viperpoisondark]

Hello!!! Here are some headcanons from the Ducktales characters (not all because there are so many and I'm lazy) that no one asked for, but I did it anyway

♡ Huey- Demisexual, Biromantic

♡ Dewey- Asexual, Panromantic, Non-Binary (uses He / Him and They / Them)

♡ Louie- Gay and Trans !!! (ftm)

♡ Webby- Lesbian and Trans (mtf) (has a huge crush on Lena)

♡ Lena- Lesbian, Demiromantic and Agender (shadows have no gender) (They / Them and She / Her)

♡ Violet- Asexual and Aromantic (too busy being smart and wonderful to care about that)

♡ Boyd- Questioning and Demiboy

♡ Scrooge- Biromantic, Asexual and Trans

♡ Della- Les-bi-an !!

♡ Donald- Trans !! (he helps Louie with it) (just like Scrooge helped him), Bi-bi-bi and Polyamorous

♡ Gladstone- Asexual, Aromantic (Because he brings me these vibes and because I want to)

♡ Fethry- Non-binary (Any pronoun is fine, but it's usually He / They or They / Them), Homo of sexual, Pure-of-Heart

♡ Launchpad- Pan-of-sexual and Dumb-of-ass

♡ Beakley- Polyssexual !!!!

♡ Panchito- Trans and muy gay !!

♡ José- Pansexual, Genderfluid, and likes to Drag (a lot)

♡ Nestor- Very gay, thank you! And very tired

♡ Standard- Bisexual

♡ Afonsinho- Trans, Asexual and Demiromantic

♡ Rosinha- ​​Lesbian !!!!

♡ Zico- Aromantic, Bisexual, Intersex

♡ Zeca- Biromantic, Asexual, Intersex

♡ Owson- Pansexual (because I love her !!!!!)

♡ Mark Beaks- Gay (but not assumed) and a jerk

♡ Glomgod- Straight (and a total idiot)

♤♤ The whole Duck-Mcduck family, along with Webby and Beakley go to the parade and Scrooge gives money to the kids, but they have to pay it back !! And Scrooge helps with LGBT + campaigns and has some LGBT + bars and clubs ♤♤

♤♤ Scrooge will deny until death, but he was the one who paid for Gyro, Fenton and Donald's surgery, and will definitely pay for Louie's ♤♤

♤♤ Drake and Lauchpad date and Gos is bothering Drake about the wedding ♤♤

♤♤ Zé, Chito and Donal are dating, but they had to separate for a while for Donald to take care of the boys, they talk every night and send a direct message ♤♤

[wheredidalltheusersgo]

Shitpost I did based off a convo with @chris-mclean-has-me-by-the-neck

(Stanley belongs to her)

[revolutionrosen]

Content Notice: References to intersex surgeries and other anti-intersex (dyadist) violence. End of Content Notice. Image Text: Intersex Experiences in the United States [by] Tena Gordon (tagged as @reformistrevolutionaryrose) [of] Eastern Florida State College. Word count=1,747. End of Image Text. Part 9: REFERENCES Achuthan, Asha. 2002. “Darmiyaan … Search for an In-between.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 3(3):419–36. doi: 10.1080/1464937022000037534. Ammaturo, Francesca Romana. 2016. “Intersexuality and the ‘Right to Bodily Integrity’.” Social & Legal Studies 25(5):591–610. doi:10.1177/0964663916636441. Callahan, Gerald N. 2009. Between XX and XY: Intersexuality and the Myth of Two Sexes. Chicago: Chicago Review Press. Carrera, María Da Victoria, Renée DePalma, and Maria Lameiras. 2012. “Sex/Gender Identity: Moving Beyond Fixed and ‘Natural’ Categories.” Sexualities 15(8):995–1016. doi:10.1177/1363460712459158. Cooper, Emily J. 2010. “Gender Testing in Athletic Competitions - Human Rights Violations: Why Michael Phelps is Praised and Caster Semenya is Chastised.” Journal of Gender, Race and Justice, 14(1):233-264. (http://link.galegroup.com.db02.linccweb.org/apps/doc/A258446000/AONE?u=lincclin_ bcc&sid=AONE&xid=0ccd951d) Davis, Heath Fogg. 2017. Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? New York: New York University Press. Elliott, Carl. 1998. “Why Can't We Go on as Three?” The Hastings Center Report 28(3):36–39. doi: 10.2307/3528649. Gregorio, I. W. 2015. None of the Above. New York: Balzer Bray. Ha, Nathan Q., Shari L. Dworkin, María José Martínez-Patiño, Alan D. Rogol, Vernon Rosario, Francisco J. Sánchez, Alison Wrynn, and Eric Vilain. 2014. “Hurdling Over Sex? Sport, Science, and Equity.” Archives of Sexual Behavior 43(6):1035–42. doi: 10.1007/s10508-014-0332-0. Hill, B. Jessie. 2015. "Constituting Children's Bodily Integrity." Duke Law Journal 64(7):1328-362. Academic OneFile (link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A417473468/AONE?u=lincclin_bcc&sid=AONE&xid=a1 d682fe). End of Part 9. Hashtags: #intersex #stopIGM #intersexstoriesnotsurgeries #protectintersexkids End of Hashtags.

[185bdartcollection]

Pearl Bailey

Vaginal Davis

Vaginal Creme Davis revolutionized drag in the 1970′s with what queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz called “terrorist drag”. He states,” ‘terrorist’ insofar as she is performing the nation's internal terrors around race, gender, and sexuality...Davis's political drag is about creating an uneasiness in desire, which works to confound and subvert the social fabric. At the center of all of Davis's cultural productions is a radical impulse toward cultural critique.” Davis contended with their identity as an intersex mixed-race individual in their drag performances as well as in the many DIY punk projects that they took on including multiple punk bands that contended with mainstream society. 

Davis’s more recent works like the one above are still queering and contending with mainstream ideas of what is correct and incorrect. This series of works are done on a canvas the size of an index card using beauty products to create abstract depictions of forgotten celebrities. Above, she uses  watercolor paper, nail varnish, glycerin, witch hazel, mascara, eyebrow pencil, Jean Nate perfume, Afro Sheen hair conditioner, hair spray, and pomade. 

Davis’s work uses humor and shock to critique every level of identities, hers and others, that has created a world in which strangeness is ostracized. 

[yourdailyqueer]

Hey, I was wondering if you could offer any queer YouTube rs to watch other than Mac and Miles. Thank you!

I don’t follow a lot of queer Youtubers but check out the following below. Do note a lot of drag artists from Drag Race are listed because they have Youtube channels now. Be aware these are only the Youtubers that have been posted and not ones in queue or drafts.

Transgender

Charlie Christina Martin

Elena Genevinne

Michelle Hendley

Harrison Browne

Ophelia Pastrana

Miles McKenna

Schuyler Bailar

Emma Ellingsen

Narcissa Wright

Jazz Jennings

Kovu Kingsrod

Gigi Gorgeous

Aaron Ansuini

Elliot Fletcher

Corey Maison 

Angela Vanity

Ryan Cassata

Nicole Ramos

Nikita Dragun

Skylar Kergil

Natalie Wynn

Jamie Raines

Kdin Jenzen

Siri Lehland

Trinity Anne

Laith Ashley

Stef Sanjati

Sam Collins

Kat Blaque

Alex Bertie

Mila Jam

Non binary

Sebastian Columbine

Shiva Raichandani

Kaitlyn Alexander

Chandler Wilson

Brendan Jordan

Thomas Halbert

Madison Paige

Jake Edwards

Annie Segarra

Chris Crocker

Milo Stewart

Jazmin Bean

Ash Hardell

Chella Man

Jude Karda

Kevin Ninh

Dani Shay

B. Scott

Queer/fluid

Cameron Deacon - John Deacon from Queen’s son

Jim Sterling

Daniel Howell

Anna Akana

Rowan Ellis

Jeffery Star

Saintraja

Ari Fitz

Pansexual

Scott Hoying

Ty Turner

Gay

Pedro Álvarez - Spanish speaking

Austin and Aaron Rhodes

The Shirtless Violinist

Nina Bo'nina Brown

Eugene Lee Yang

Zander Hodgson

Lucas Cruikshank

Lasizwe Dambuza

Michael Buckley

Greyson Chance 

Jaymes Mansfield 

Thomas Sanders

Greyson Chance

Raymond Braun

Reuben Mourad

Michael Pavano 

David K. Smith 

Jordan Doww

Jack Merridew

Tuure Boelius

Matthew Lush 

Bretman Rock

Cameron Cole

Nick Crompton

Ryland Adams

Max Emerson

Bilal Hassani

Garrett Watts 

Robert White 

Elijah Daniel

Manny MUA

Matt Dallas

Idan Matalon 

Joey Graceffa

Isaiah Larkin

James Butler

Mitch Grassi

Bryan Odell

Wayne Goss

Trixie Mattel

Allan Alvarez

Troye Sivan

Pabllo Vittar

Tyler Oakley

Kimora Blac

Craig Dillon

Jack Baran 

Tom Daley

Ben Hunte

Phil Lester

Sam Tsui 

Rich Lux

Kingsley

Lesbian

María José Garzón

Shannon Beveridge

Cassandra Bankson

Dr Sally Le Page

Cammie Scott

Christel Dee

Ingrid Nilsen

Hannah Hart

Rose Dix

Hartbeat

Bisexual

Snow Tha Product

Claire Margaret Corlett

Harris “Harry” Brewis

Rosie Spaughton

Andrea Russett

Shane Dawson

Tana Mongeau

Harmony Nice

Janet Devlin

Mikey Bustos

Nicole Pacent

Daniela Calle

Alex Elmslie

Jessie Paege

Sammy Paul

Bree Essrig

Oliver Thorn - Great for philosophy

Lindsay Ellis

Mark Ferris

Gaby Dunn

Meg Turney

Dodie Clark 

Jon Cozart

Lilly Singh

Elle Mills

Mxmtoon

Snooki

Asexual spectrum

Evan Edinger - He reblogged his post

Julie Sondra Decker

Vesper (QueerAsCat)

Connie Glynn

Yasmin Benoit

Caligo Bastet

Ricky Dillon

Intersex

Amythest Schaber

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Reflection #2: “Weeks 3 and 4″

     The New York Time’s piece entitled, “The Humiliating Practice of Sex-Testing Female Athletes,” written by Ruth Padawer, documents gender discrimination in professional athletics, specifically how intersex individuals are excluded from their respective sports. From this article, I feel that the practice of gender discrimination through gender verification tests is unfair and exclusionary because gender identity is a complex social construct that lies on a widespread spectrum including biological and hormonal components, and to judge others based on a binary system does not consider the spectrum. Although, it is important to denote that gender cannot be equated with biological and physiological differences between human females and males according to Judith Lorber. The first individual that the article writes about is Dutee Chand, an Indian female athlete who competes in the Olympics. This athlete was discriminated against because the athlete was forced to undergo a gender verification test. Chand was found with elevated testosterone levels, an androgen steroid that is associated with the growth and enhancement of secondary male reproductive organs, muscle development, and aggression in mammalian males. The International Association of Athletics Federation (I.A.A.F) ultimately disqualified Chand from competing in the Olympics, which alienated the athlete. I never considered that gender binaries can be further segregated by testing one’s hormonal levels, which is absolutely shocking. Additionally, I feel that this practice is disgusting because the athlete identifies as a female athlete, yet a committee is calling her a hermaphrodite or male, a non-identifying sex and gender to her. In fact, Chand in her confusion is quoted as saying, ““I said, ‘What have I done that is wrong…. ‘What is a gender test?’ This is just saddening to read because a professional is being punished for having heighten physiological androgen levels, which can be a part of her biology, but goes against a social standard predetermined for the female gender at a low concentration. This one case is enough for me to understand that gender discrimination and gender verification tests for athletic competitors are ethically wrong and ignorant. There are other cases of intersexuality and hermaphroditism listed in this article, such as the Madrid female athlete, Maria José Martínez Patiño, with the XY chromosomes, ultimately condemn and scrutinize gender verification tests.

     In Judith Butler’s piece entitled, “Doing Justice to Some: Sex Reassignment and Allegories of Transsexuality,” the author discusses the contemporary societal orders and norms that influences how individuals, as intellectual beings, express their “personhood,” in the attempt to answer a theoretical dilemma of who you are as a person. I thought that Butler wrote very well, and conveyed many poignant points about gender as a social construct. In this piece, the author discusses the tragic story of David Reimer based on her analyses of the work of Dr. Milton Diamond, John Colapinto, Anne Fausto-Sterling and Suzanne Kessler to demonstrate and support her claims about a discriminatory gender binary system. This excerpt allowed me to experience some cognitive dissonance since I am so used to societal norms that I do not consider the plight of intersex or transgender peoples. The author uses David’s story to demonstrate a perspective that traumatized an individual beyond repair. The author effectively uses the story to convey the hurt and loss of a poor individual who was not given an option, and therefore stripped of his ability to identify as who he felt most conformable. The horrifying story of David Reimer, formerly known as Brenda from a gender reassignment, is best summarized with the following line, “He (David) is, in his view, a man born a man, castrated by the medical establishment, feminized by the psychiatric world, and then enabled to return to who he is.” (Pg 65) This line summarized this individual’s suffering. The underlying factors that caused David’s suffering is absolutely abhorrent, and ultimately drove his motive to commit suicide. The medical establish, consistent of psychologists and psychiatrists, and his parents, modeled by social norms about gender dimorphism failed this individual. The two pillars of society that are the most trusted by the members of our society were not able to help David, and there may be many more like him. This notion is especially perturbing to me, as an individual who aspires to go into the field of medicine.

     David never felt “natural,” as prescribed by the societal norms, in this case a binary gender system, because he was subjected to hormones and surgery of which he had no choice. David also never felt like a male or female, which are completely understandable considering his complicated experiences and sufferings. I know that gender and sexual orientation exist as a spectrum, but David’s experiences with gender identity has truly shown me a part of the spectrum that I did not know. His confusion and pain have made me further understand the plight that intersex peoples face despite my presumption of gender roles and identities. I also had the opportunity to learn about gender dimorphism, and how prevalent this dichotomy is in gender systems, even in the transgender movement. 

     Ultimately, what I learned from the past two weeks is to appreciate the complexity of gender identities and sexual orientations as social constructs that can be fluid and change over time. By reading the experiences and difficulties associated with trans-gender identifying and intersex peoples, I begin to understand a portion of the gender spectrum.