Throughout the semester, prompts based on class readings, screenings, lectures, and discussions will be posted on this blog. Responses will be graded on their level of critical thinking, pertinence, engagement with class texts, and grammar/spelling/proofing/
length. Be sure to read the prompt carefully and fully engage with the content of the class materials. At the bottom of your response, type your FIRST NAME and the FIRST INITIAL OF YOUR LAST NAME (e.g. Claudia Z.).
A video like this is important because it provides people with the correct information about one of the categories of the LGBTQIA spectrum. Because gender and sexuality are fluid, it is important that people view sexuality from a non-judgmental lens that allows them to be able to understand the idea of fluidity. During a class lecture, the topics of biological sex, gender identity as well as sexual and romantic attraction were discussed. All topics with their own complexity as one tries their best to make sense of why it is all so complicated in the first place. We as a society make things much more complicated than they need to be. For example, this particular video discussed what it meant to be intersex which is when a person doesn't fit the typical definition of male of female and they may have some variations in their gonads, chromosomes, or genitalia. A couple of the people in this video mentioned the doctors essentially determined the biological characteristics of their patients by giving them surgeries that they don’t want or necessarily need. They stated that doctors often perform “normalizing” surgery on intersex people without medical reasons or health risk reasons, and often strictly focus on appearance. These surgeries end up making things more complicated for the person who it was performed on because they grow up feeling like something in them doesn't make sense. Someone in the video made the comment that it is very difficult for intersex people to find other intersex people because they are taught at a very young age to not talk about their bodies. The phrase “intersex” also tends to have a negative connotation within society, almost similar to the way in which the word “tranny” also has a negative connotation and carries with it a stigma. If we as a society were to stop giving language that carries stigma power, it might make it easier for people who identify as intersex for example to be able to find each other and support each other with more ease.
A video like this is important because it provides people with the correct information about one of the categories of the LGBTQIA spectrum. Because gender and sexuality are fluid, it is important that people view sexuality from a non-judgmental lens that allows them to be able to understand the idea of fluidity. During a class lecture, the topics of biological sex, gender identity as well as sexual and romantic attraction were discussed. All topics with their own complexity as one tries their best to make sense of why it is all so complicated in the first place. We as a society make things much more complicated than they need to be. For example, this particular video discussed what it meant to be intersex which is when a person doesn't fit the typical definition of male of female and they may have some variations in their gonads, chromosomes, or genitalia.
ReplyDeleteA couple of the people in this video mentioned the doctors essentially determined the biological characteristics of their patients by giving them surgeries that they don’t want or necessarily need.
They stated that doctors often perform “normalizing” surgery on intersex people without medical reasons or health risk reasons, and often strictly focus on appearance. These surgeries end up making things more complicated for the person who it was performed on because they grow up feeling like something in them doesn't make sense. Someone in the video made the comment that it is very difficult for intersex people to find other intersex people because they are taught at a very young age to not talk about their bodies. The phrase “intersex” also tends to have a negative connotation within society, almost similar to the way in which the word “tranny” also has a negative connotation and carries with it a stigma. If we as a society were to stop giving language that carries stigma power, it might make it easier for people who identify as intersex for example to be able to find each other and support each other with more ease.
- Janira C.