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Intersex did you know it exists?
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#25Intersex did you know it exists?
Posted: 11/21/14 at 3:03pmOf crs
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#26Intersex did you know it exists?
Posted: 11/21/14 at 3:07pm
Basically everything horrific has been rebranded as a good thing.
Silence = Death has now become the Day of Silence.
The Project Names Memorial AIDS Quilt is now Quiltbag
What's next?
#28Intersex did you know it exists?
Posted: 11/21/14 at 3:29pmDude! Kaposi Sarcoma is spinning tonight! We are SO there!
#29Intersex did you know it exists?
Posted: 11/21/14 at 5:14pmPerhaps I need to get out of my socially progressive... quiltbag, but it seems odd to me that someone hasn't even heard the term "intersex" in 2014. But then I asked my grandmother and she had no idea what it meant either, so, there's that.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#30Intersex did you know it exists?
Posted: 11/22/14 at 5:34amI had to look at the date to see if this was a freakishly old thread!
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henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#31Intersex did you know it exists?
Posted: 11/22/14 at 9:35pm
"If they keep adding letters to LGBTI...eventually when you come out as gay you will just have to say "I'm only gay" and it will be boring.
Seriously - not being sarcastic...who decides when to add a letter to LGBT?"
This question has far less to do with the biological concept of intersexuality and far more to do with the political concept of another new word which people would be well-advised to learn: intersectionality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality
Updated On: 11/22/14 at 09:35 PM
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#32Intersex did you know it exists?
Posted: 11/22/14 at 9:43pmAnother common acronym is just saying LGBTQ+, though it isn't used as much because people take offense as to not being included in the acronym, and I still just use GSM
#33Intersex did you know it exists?
Posted: 11/23/14 at 3:22amI used to be able to say "confirmed bachelor", but then this whole marriage thing had to happen.
#34Intersex did you know it exists?
Posted: 11/23/14 at 3:34am
That is why Clooney got "married".
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#35Intersex did you know it exists?
Posted: 11/23/14 at 9:50am
Pride Toronto uses LGBTTIQQ2SA.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer/Questioning, 2 Spirited, Allies.
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#36Intersex did you know it exists?
Posted: 11/23/14 at 10:48amOk I'll bite. What the hell is 2-spirited? Now THAT'S something I didn't know existed.
ArtMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/08
#37Intersex did you know it exists?
Posted: 11/23/14 at 11:01amHorseTears, I'm with your Grandmother. I had never heard the term before either. I assumed what the meaning was. Just never heard the term used. I may need to get out more.
#38Intersex did you know it exists?
Posted: 11/23/14 at 11:22am2-Spirited is a Native American/First Nations concept related to gender role transgression. They traditionally considered there to be four genders: masculine men and feminine women, one spirited, and feminine men and masculine women, two-spirited. The two-spirited people were said to have shamanic tendencies and were considered holy in a way.
#39Intersex did you know it exists?
Posted: 11/23/14 at 12:03pm
^ Thanks for that explanation, darquegk. Truly never heard the term before.
A decidedly binary idea of Gayness though based on your description: feminine men and masculine women only. Wonder what those cultures would make of manly men who love men, and womanly women who love women?
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#40Intersex did you know it exists?
Posted: 11/23/14 at 12:09pmI'm sure they passed as similar types probably think they do now.
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#41Intersex did you know it exists?
Posted: 11/23/14 at 1:58pm
Wouldn't 2-spirited already be included in the LGBT part?
I'm not seeing what's so different about it as to require a separate classification.
Am I misunderstanding?
....but the world goes 'round
#42Intersex did you know it exists?
Posted: 11/23/14 at 2:07pmQuestioning inclusiveness is exclusive.
#44Intersex did you know it exists?
Posted: 11/24/14 at 2:46pm
I won't lie. Having read and seen so much about intersexed individuals in the past decade (there are a couple of interesting documentaries), just after proudly announcing to my wife, "Baby, she's blonde!" (I won that bet), I checked out her junk to see if anything else was going on down there.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
Updated On: 11/25/14 at 02:46 PM
#45Intersex did you know it exists?
Posted: 11/24/14 at 11:45pm
I'm also pretty surprised at the number of people who didn't know the term. For the record, it's a replacement for the term hermaphrodite, which is not considered an appropriate label anymore, so should not be used in addition to intersex.
Anyways, intersex people are much more common than society would like anyone to believe. No, not some big majority of people, but there's definitely more gender assignment happening directly after birth than people think.
#46Intersex did you know it exists?
Posted: 11/25/14 at 11:56am^Which is why I wanted to know immediately. Many of the stories of children whose parents chose the incorrect gender at birth were heartbreaking. I was fully prepared to argue what would actually be "best" for my child.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
#47Intersex did you know it exists?
Posted: 11/28/14 at 6:43pmThere was an episode of Masters of Sex that involved a plotline with an intersex baby. I believe it was Season 2, Episode 3, "The Fight".
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#48Intersex did you know it exists?
Posted: 11/28/14 at 7:01pmI am pretty sure there was an ER episode, too. The mom died in childbirth and the father was left to face it alone.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!