Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 101 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing, reading, and thinking on a weekly basis in an informal setting.
Monday, October 29, 2018
Intersex, and Erased Again
As for the fact that the author is an intersex, I sympathize with her and understand her difficult situation, because it is difficult for anyone to accept such strange fact. On the other hand, if I am a intersex, I think I will suffer from depression or commit suicide.After all, this society is realistic and cruel, and it is hard to accept the heterogeneous people in a short time. When I finish the article, I know that the author is angry because her parents make a decision that they want to raise the author as a girl without her consent. I think people' fate is out of control sometimes. Being born with XXY chromosome is an accident of life. There is no use blaming parents because it isn't their fault. All parents hope their children have a healthy life. The only thing you can do as an intersex is to accept the fact and be optimistic about life. No matter what others think, just be yourself and do whatever you want. Everyone is unique, either you have one more chromosome than other people is different. Everyone have his own rights that are not deprived at will. Hence, I am opposed to Trump administration's policy that forgot the right of intersex.
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Hi Vava: The author wasn't born w/ an extra chromosome. And it's probably true that her parents wanted to protect her from a cruel society. But parents used to "protect" their gay children by sending them to be "deprogrammed" and "cured" at reeducation camps. Before 1973, homosexuality was considered a mental illness and listed in the Physician's Desk Reference as such. But we now know that that thinking is wrong. Isn't it possible that our rigid ideas about gender might change someday too? I think we're getting too caught up w/ whether the author's parents should be "blamed" or not. What about future children and future parents?
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