tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839978414000723306.post4779987722987223383..comments2023-10-21T06:46:58.225-07:00Comments on Intersex and the City: Identity v. DisorderIntersex &the Cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08615805736623763538noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839978414000723306.post-71730459218946021492017-04-28T18:18:57.458-07:002017-04-28T18:18:57.458-07:00Hi,
Friendly point of correction about what you s...Hi,<br /><br />Friendly point of correction about what you say about deaf people: No, it is not the "similar medical treatment" that gives us an identity or sense of unity, what does give us this identity is our LANGUAGE and COMMUNITY. For Deaf community members in the United States, this is American Sign Language, in the UK this is British Sign Language (no, not the same at all, in fact ASL and BSL are from completely different sign language families because ASL belongs to the French Sign Language family, not British), in Costa Rica this is LESCO (Lengua de Senas de Costa Rica), and so forth. Although there are many disability communities -- and I belong to more than one, having more than one disability myself aside from being Deaf -- the Deaf community is still relatively unique in that we have needed to create an entire language to enable ourselves to communicate, and language is itself a huge factor in identity and unity. So even though I do very much embrace my identification with the wider cross-disability community, I do also still see the culturally Deaf signing community as being distinct in that regard.<br /><br />Also, many Deaf people who have a sense of cultural and linguistic identity through signed language often use a capital "D" in "Deaf", and use lower case d to refer to the audiological condition of being deaf, or to refer to deaf people who might not sign and do not identify themselves as being a part of the wider signing, culturally Deaf community.Andrea Shettle, MSWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16984732076766787818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839978414000723306.post-16095048396132496522009-09-30T16:43:48.559-07:002009-09-30T16:43:48.559-07:00Great OP/Ed yo've hit the nail on the head.
J...Great OP/Ed yo've hit the nail on the head.<br /><br />Just a couple of thoughts.<br /><br />Intersex is all that needs to be said. Think of it as being white or black. So people are not whitules or blackules or blacked or whited. <br /><br />So Intersex : not Intersexed or Intersexules. and we are not Intersex Disorders as you rightly note. Some however are inclined to say we are Intersex Conditions. This is equaly problimatic as it likewise tends to pathologise diference. So we are Intersex and that is a diference or a variation just as being white or black is.<br /><br />Thanks again for a great article.<br /><br />Warm Regards<br /><br />GinaGinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18291086592113770944noreply@blogger.com