{"id":21,"date":"2003-01-24T00:41:47","date_gmt":"2003-01-24T04:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2003-01-24T00:41:47","modified_gmt":"2003-01-24T04:41:47","slug":"intersex-recognized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Intersex Recognized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia has&#8211;the first time this has happened anywhere in the world, as far as I know&#8211;officially recognized a person as being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewest.com.au\/20030111\/news\/perth\/tw-news-perth-home-sto84205.html\">intersexed<\/a>. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/campuscgi.princeton.edu\/~eszter\/weblog\/archives\/00000175.html\">Eszter&#8217;s Blog<\/a>). Alex McFarlane has XXY chromosomes (rather than the male XY or the female XX), and e refuses to consider emself as either male or female (to use the <a href=\"http:\/\/aetherlumina.com\/gnp\/references.html#muds\">Spivak pronouns<\/a>, for the first time since my MOOing days).Good for Alex! And good for all of us to remember that our bodies are&#8211;our biology is&#8211;much more multifarious and flexible than we usually realize. It&#8217;s not that, as fatuous conservatives love to say, our culture has to recognize and come to terms with the limits imposed on us by nature; but rather the opposite&#8211;that all too often it&#8217;s cultural constraints and presuppositions and prejudices that limit and blight our bodily potentialities.  (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0465077137\/qid=1043300313\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/002-2191479-2112826?v=glance&#038;s=books\">Anne Fausto-Sterling<\/a>, whom I already mentioned the other day, for more on intergender issues). Or as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spinoza.net\/\">Spinoza <\/a>said, in a line that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uta.edu\/english\/apt\/d%26g\/d%26gweb.html\">Gilles Deleuze <\/a>loved to quote: &#8220;We do not yet know what our bodies can do.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia has&#8211;the first time this has happened anywhere in the world, as far as I know&#8211;officially recognized a person as being intersexed. (Via Eszter&#8217;s Blog). Alex McFarlane has XXY chromosomes (rather than the male XY or the female XX), and e refuses to consider emself as either male or female (to use the Spivak pronouns, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=21\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Intersex Recognized&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}