SOCI 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Byrsonima Crassifolia
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This article begins with a lecture by cheryl chase. Cheryl chase is an activist for intersexual rights and is giving a closing speech at a symposium for specialists in children"s hormones. This is an historic speech because three years earlier, chase was denied a chance to speak to the american academy of pediatrics about the patient"s view on the treatment of genital ambiguity. This denial caused, while seems small, two dozen picketers protested this decision. Fausto-sterling explains something about the original ve-sex typology that might not have been obvious, at the time. Fausto-sterling states that since 1993, "modern society has moved beyond ve sexes to a recognition that gender variation is normal and, for some people, an arena for playful exploration. " What has primacy in everyday life is the gender that is performed, regardless of the esh"s con guration under the clothes. "
