Week Eight Blog
In Kessler’s essay she talks about the fact that the medical community determines the gender of an intersexed child by the size of the penis, rather than by the chromosomes. This clearly shows that our society is obsessed with making sure everyone is normal and able to be put into a box. However, no one can say what the child will grow up to be. So the doctors should not change the baby, they should just let it be and grow up into whatever its supposed to be. If they did that then we would eventually start to accept the fact that intersexed children are born all the time and they deserve the right to choose who they want to be.
We as a society get all of our information about being normal physically from the medical society. Basically whatever they tell us we believe. So when they are making decisions about the gender of a baby they are using their authority to continue the norms in our society. However, if there are so many children being born this way who’s to say it’s not normal? The medical society would never look into intersexed children being normal because there isn’t a place to put them in our society. Its boy or its girl and that’s it.