Sunday, July 9, 2023

There's a THIRD SEX doc: "Every Body"

Fresh Air Weekend, July 8, 2023; CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Female? No. Male (XY)? Sort of. Weigel is intersex (born in between with testes).
One's a man, two's a woman, and three's a, wait a minute. That first one's a... Hold on. Intersex activists Sean Saifa Wall, Alicia Roth Weigel, and River Gallo share their stories in the new documentary Every Body (Focus Features).
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It's not okay to be gay in Ukraine, not at all.
Know how we're all forced to say LGBTQIA+? Few people even know what that means.

For instance, the A is for asexual, a variable term ranging from psychological introvert to biologically damaged neutered person. What's the Q for? Betcha don't know. (Hint: It's not queer). Yes, it is! No, it's not; people just think it is. That would be redundant. It means "questioning."

One third of millennials identify as LGBTQ?
That means you, Robby Joiner, are LGBTQ because remember when we were kids and you said you didn't know if you were straight? You questioned it (like everybody else in existence). Haha, you noncisgender warrior! That ought to teach you to throw rocks at Kevin. What's the I for?

Intersex specimens persons at the convention
It stands for intersex (a kind of hermaphroditic or ambiguous genitalia condition, a third sex -- neither strictly male nor female -- called pandaka in ancient Buddhist and Indian texts). So what if there are a few eccentric anomalies out there?
  • As an intersex individual, Alicia Roth Weigel (pictured above) knows that biological sex is more complicated than two boxes on a birth certificate. "Intersex people are born with physical traits that don't fit neatly into a 'male' or 'female' box," Weigel says. "We have combinations of hormones, chromosomes, internal reproductive organs, external genitalia that just doesn't fit neatly on one of those two binary options that you were taught in elementary biology class are the only options." Weigel, who identifies as she/they, was born with androgen insensitivity syndrome — a condition in which a person has both X and Y chromosomes but does not respond to male hormones [so is a male but isn't or at least doesn't look like one or express the customary phenotypic characteristics of one]. Though Weigel presented as female at birth, tests revealed that she lacked a uterus and ovaries, and that she had internal testes ["balls"]. More
Redheads don't seem completely human.
There are as manty intersex persons born as there are redheads (about 2%). That means more than two out of every hundred births are ambiguous or mixed, containing both features or neither. This is not transgenderism but an actual third presentation (phenotype with backing genotype).
What's the plus for? Whatever anyone likes, such as NAMBLA's entry MAPs ("minor attracted persons"), along with what perverted-academic Alfred Kinsey started in 1948:

(The Becket Cook Show) "The strategy to make gay OK" (Episode 78)

This week: For the intersex community, Every. Body. exists on a [sexual, gendered] spectrum:

Alicia Roth Weigel is one of three activists profiled in Julie Cohen's new documentary. She says "intersex" is an umbrella term for people whose "anatomy doesn't fit super neatly into a binary box."

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