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Trans Children w/ Jules Gill-Peterson

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The Epistemological Crisis Over the Sex Binary

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?

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