Archive for the 'intersex' Category

because it’s never too late to challenge a bad idea

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

This diatribe by Paul McHugh, at one time Psychiatrist-in-Chief of Johns Hopkins University, against transsexualism is not news. But since encountering the text of it online last week, i have been pondering how to respond. I think the best response i can give is a line-by-line answer.
When the practice of sex-change surgery first [...]

intersex and trans

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

I wrote a filtered post in my LJ about it a couple of years ago, but i haven’t really made it public knowledge that i have an intersex condition. This may come as a surprise, but i don’t actually make it a habit to talk publicly about certain parts of my body. It was [...]