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What I found very interesting is Kessler’s text about, “The medical construction of gender: case management of intersexed infants� she talks about how medical doctors are treating infants as a… I want to say it’s like a child’s clothed whom the parents decides to put on her/him and so soon she/he will grow out of them, to decide whatever they feel like wearing. They are babies now, who don’t know yet what clothes to choose. So later on when they get older the society kind of decides for them if they want to dress like boy or girl. They have to choose one of the two to be. I don’t mean like they have to choose to be like the boy or the girl but it’s like the bathroom part where they have to decide which one to go in.
Kessler talks about how doctors have to decide a gender for infants who have ambiguous genitalia, because this society, where you have to choose weather is a boy or a girl. It very bad I want to say that the infants are being force by this society to choose what they are. Sometimes I wish that there are no such things to choose from and you can be whatever you feel like being without any hatred. Doing this medical surgery on infants as for the boys, it also talks about in the long run, where there are sizes the penis has to be and that if it’s small is consume that their something else. That’s one part that really disturbed me a lot because now they decides the sex for the infant already, now there are certain sizes too.. What’s going on now?
I feel the toughness of this article though, because I feel that in away it’s good to have a infant to do surgery if they have this ambiguous genitalia and so the parents and the doctor have to decides if it’s a boy or a girl but the other half of me, feels that it’s bad because what if they turn out not to like their body the way it is and so they have to change it the way they like it to feel good about themselves. Now as they are older they decide what body they are comfortable in. Now they have with to go through this society where they are being judge all over.