PHIL 242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Plastic Surgery
6 Dec 2015
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Anne fausto-sterling, should there be only two sexes? introduction: injustices on intersex people, common belief: stable self-conception of sex is crucial. Fragility and social basis of gender identity. Medical treatment of intersex as pathology: anatomical. Develop better technologies to assign sex at birth (rejected by f- Does not doom anyone to sexual dysfunction/psychological damage. Wait till they are adults so that they can decide for themselves: should we look to proliferate gender, legal protection, both male and female germinal tissue, eg. 1 testes 1 ovary. Pseudo hermaphrodites: 1 kind of germinal tissue, but is a combination of male and female genital. Doctors suggest intervention to make child look uniformly male/female even though it is not a life-threatening issue. Fausto-sterling is concerned to end cosmetic surgery that changes sexual organs. Parents and doctors not thinking of sexual pleasure of infant in later life they measure sexual function more as can you penetrate/be penetrated: psychological.
