re: #132 Obdicut

I have a friend who was actually born intersexed, and it’s been a source of a lot of trauma and pain. He wishes people and society in general was more accepting of intersexed people and those without what we’d call a coherent gender, but to intentionally inflict that on a child is kind of bizarre. Why put your kid through that if you don’t have to?

It’s a fine line to tread, I agree. In terms of the specific article posted above, I would say that there are pros and cons.

Pro:
- relatives don’t immediately start plying the kids with their view of what a little boy or girl needs to be “like”

Con:
- possible confusion in the child over how to process emotions without a normalizing gender structure

I guess I’d want an actual child psychologist to evaluate the significance of the latter (or indeed to flag any other potential problems). I didn’t think the content of the article was much to worry about though.