I m an intersex,gay, man who has been educating and advocating for us for over 30 yrs. Your book, “Sexing the Body” is among the first helpful resources I found, bought and read the year it was published. I m one of those ppl who could not be sexed at birth and who has “androgynous genitals” and organs. I’m also a scientist - retired and disabled. I had a career as a med lab tech. I am so sympathetic to your argument that we who know a little bit of science have had it up to here with ideology. From physics to biology incl. consciousness breakthroughs just recently and mapping of the brain chemically there is no arguing that humans are a cooperative collection of 30 trillion cells all living together. That’s not up for debate no matter what the EO Wants to “believe in”. Argh!!! Keep writing. Keep speaking. You have “fans” out here who live in bodies that are not and can not be forced into an imaginary fantasy of the perfect two and only two sexes and genders. Genital mutilation of intersex infants and children against their will without informed consent and by terrorizing parents is PURE abuse without justification. The only way to turn the animal kingdom into two and only two sexes and genders is by instituting genocide and controlled human breeding. Ahem. No surprise there eh what? Love you!!
Thank you for your comments and for sharing some of your personal story.. This is a difficult time. I have given a lot of thought to what I can do to help and this substack is my contribution. I can write and I know something about science and gender. So whenever I can I will try to offer clarity for people who find these crazy government pronouncements hard to process.
"these people" are not actually my audience. They are determined to make gender/sex diversity become illegal and disappear. The don't want women to vote. They don't care that women die from tubal pregnancies. Or that trans women in a men's prison will be brutalized or killed.They are bad people and there is no arguing with them.
BUT I think there are a lot of well-intentioned people out there who are bewildered by this debate and can use help parsing the arguments. I'm thinking of the grandparents I meet at dinner parties whose grandchild has announced that they are non-binary. The grand wants to support but also wants to understand yet they have always understood the world as binary. And the cloud of dust documents like these EO kick up just makes it harder for them to see. I think there are even lots of LGBTQI people who know that these arguments are BS but have a hard time articulating why. The current president and his minions are expert at twisting language and if I can help people see where the sudden twists are, I think that helps us ourselves, and to win allies from people who just have never thought about it.
I m an intersex,gay, man who has been educating and advocating for us for over 30 yrs. Your book, “Sexing the Body” is among the first helpful resources I found, bought and read the year it was published. I m one of those ppl who could not be sexed at birth and who has “androgynous genitals” and organs. I’m also a scientist - retired and disabled. I had a career as a med lab tech. I am so sympathetic to your argument that we who know a little bit of science have had it up to here with ideology. From physics to biology incl. consciousness breakthroughs just recently and mapping of the brain chemically there is no arguing that humans are a cooperative collection of 30 trillion cells all living together. That’s not up for debate no matter what the EO Wants to “believe in”. Argh!!! Keep writing. Keep speaking. You have “fans” out here who live in bodies that are not and can not be forced into an imaginary fantasy of the perfect two and only two sexes and genders. Genital mutilation of intersex infants and children against their will without informed consent and by terrorizing parents is PURE abuse without justification. The only way to turn the animal kingdom into two and only two sexes and genders is by instituting genocide and controlled human breeding. Ahem. No surprise there eh what? Love you!!
Thank you for your comments and for sharing some of your personal story.. This is a difficult time. I have given a lot of thought to what I can do to help and this substack is my contribution. I can write and I know something about science and gender. So whenever I can I will try to offer clarity for people who find these crazy government pronouncements hard to process.
So good, thank you. I’d take one more step and name their gender ideology: patriarchy
"these people" are not actually my audience. They are determined to make gender/sex diversity become illegal and disappear. The don't want women to vote. They don't care that women die from tubal pregnancies. Or that trans women in a men's prison will be brutalized or killed.They are bad people and there is no arguing with them.
BUT I think there are a lot of well-intentioned people out there who are bewildered by this debate and can use help parsing the arguments. I'm thinking of the grandparents I meet at dinner parties whose grandchild has announced that they are non-binary. The grand wants to support but also wants to understand yet they have always understood the world as binary. And the cloud of dust documents like these EO kick up just makes it harder for them to see. I think there are even lots of LGBTQI people who know that these arguments are BS but have a hard time articulating why. The current president and his minions are expert at twisting language and if I can help people see where the sudden twists are, I think that helps us ourselves, and to win allies from people who just have never thought about it.
for sure.