Talk:Genital modification and mutilation

Do we consider an intersex person with 5-Alpha Reductase to be transsexual if they have their testes removed and live a female existence? Are they transsexual if they live their "genetically" male existence and use testosterone and surgery to approximate that identity? We use binary language to reinforce heteronormative hierarchy without ever considering the misleading ideas such language perpetuates. There is a spectrum of human expression and assuming that all human existence falls within popularized male/female existence is nothing less than a lie. Terms like "genetically female" are misleading. The term "transsexual" assumes that people are trumped by genitalia and the gender binary is the only "normal" existence. It assumes that such individuals transcend normalcy, which empowers binary language and the "gender illusion". Human existence is a spectrum, not a polarized binary. No one existence should be given so much power to dominate the realm of legitimacy while dismissing anything else to be “other than”.

144.35.254.14 01:32, July 29, 2010 (UTC) Candice Metzler

144.35.254.14 01:31, July 29, 2010 (UTC)