Some Things Haven't Changed in Intersexuality

Thursday, October 1, 2026 - 10:41 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project The most significant thing that hits me as I read DeVun's history of the (European) attitude toward intersexuality is how little has changed. There is still a prevailing attitude that everyone must be shoehorned into either "clearly male" or "clearly female" and that the opinions and preferences of the person involved are of little moment. (One change is that in the pre-modern period, it appears that questions over classification and surgery appear to have been raised primarily on reaching adulthood, whereas the modern approach makes those decisions for newborn babies.) Major category: LHMPTags: LHMP LHMP #581f DeVun 2020 The Shape of Sex Chapter 5 About LHMP Full citation: DeVun, Leah. 2020. The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 978-0-2311-9551-5 Chapter 5: The Correction of Nature—Sex and the Science of Surgery The legal and social imperative…