After coming out, Odiele met an intersex woman from Utah who had avoided surgery – a rarity.
“She’s a very strong person, with a lot less trauma than I have,” she says. “But most people I’ve met have had surgery. To normalise the body, they just cut things out.”
She considers it a human rights violation, an age-old impulse to correct things that don’t conform to the binary ways in which men seek to shape the world.
It's
men that shape the world, is it? Not women? And not nature, which shapes us in overwhelmingly binary fashion?
Being prodded and stared at for so much of her childhood was humiliating and lonely.
So she picked a job where she is stared at by people
all the time.
There are no dogs, no Police incompetence, and it did not take place in Southend. A non story, I fear.
ReplyDeletePenseivat
Sounds like the very definition of utterly barmy.
ReplyDeleteAren't there institutions for crazies like this?
FFS they've gone sick over there.
ReplyDeleteHowever, she makes a valid point about the surgery. Unless life-threatening, it is best not undertaken.
ReplyDelete"However, she makes a valid point about the surgery. Unless life-threatening, it is best not undertaken."
ReplyDeleteBut the definition of 'life threatening' seems to be stretched too often.