The concept of gender was meant to save the sex binary from imminent collapse by offering a new developmental justification for coercive and normalizing medical intervention into intersex children's bodies. But before we get to that invention of gender, let's go right up to the precipice right before then. How did intersex medicine lead to what you call a quote, looming epistemological crisis over the sex binary?
Featuring Jules Gill-Peterson on Histories of the Transgender Child. Amid this right-wing reaction, a discussion of the history of trans medicine and trans children—and also trans politics more generally.
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