Owning Endosex Privilege and Supporting the Intersex Community: WPATH, Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM), and Sex Variant Bodies
E-Book Version Listen to an audio version of this article: By Margo Schulter The presentation of a poster session advocating Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM) at the recent Amsterdam meeting of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) has heightened a crisis of confidence and trust between the intersex and trans communities, with a special impact on those of us belonging to one or both communities who seek an equitable and productive alliance against the patriarchal tyranny of the sex binary. My main purpose here as an endosex (nonintersex) transsexual woman is to explain for other endosex trans and/or nonbinary readers why we need to own our endosex privilege and understand the unique nature of intersex oppression, through IGM and other forms of childhood medical oppression, which we do not ourselves face, despite other aspects of our oppression which can and should make us “natural allies” of the intersex community.
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Community significance
“Owning Endosex Privilege and Supporting the Intersex Community: WPATH, Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM), and Sex Variant Bodies” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging healthcare and medicine. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
Historical significance
The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning transgender identity and history. Published in 2017 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how healthcare and medicine was framed at that moment.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is research ethics and data governance and administrative classification and identity documents. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and healthcare and medicine, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
Ranked themes and framings
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Themes
- 1Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life73%
- 3Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community52%
- 4Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community48%
- 5Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict31%
- 6Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life31%
Academic framing
- 1100%
- 277%
- 340%
- 49%
Policy framing
- 1100%
- 210%
Editorial function
Source topics
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
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Relative presence by year
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Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Community and organizing519
- Law and civil rights455
- Culture, identity, and representation305
- Education and youth288
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse247
- Healthcare and medicine229
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization226
- History, archives, and memory211
- Public policy and governance200
- Family and relationships186
Academic framings in this topic
Policy framings in this topic
- Public accommodations and facilities170
- Civil rights and anti-discrimination161
- Criminal justice and public safety128
- Elections and democratic governance95
- Research ethics and data governance73
- Labor and employment policy51
- Housing and social services37
- Administrative classification and identity documents36
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