“Intersex children get surgeries that they don’t want, and trans people have to fight for surgeries that they do want.”
Wall said the “godlike” status of doctors in our culture has allowed the nonconsensual management of intersex bodies to proliferate. “When it comes to intersex variations, there’s no oversight by the state,” he said. “I think what makes intersex activism so compelling is that we’re actually asking and demanding that doctors be held accountable for their actions.”
In the film, Weigel contends that, “our very existence proves that there is no pure male and female.” The binary is shattered by their biology, a point that forms the premise of Anne Fausto-Sterling’s brilliant book from 2000,“Intersex is an umbrella term in and of itself,” Weigel elaborated. “It encompasses a wide variety of the natural diversity that occurs within human beings… Everyone has sex characteristics. Some non-intersex women have big breasts, some have small breasts.
This situation of having powerful people on one side insisting on the existence of a binary and subjugated/erased people on the other begging to differ with their own life experience will be familiar to anyone who has been involved in or observed the trans rights movement. Though intersex rights and trans rights are their own distinct movements with their specific concerns and nuances, the Every Body subjects discussed key intersections of the movements.
Gallo, who was raised male and identifies as nonbinary, trans femme, and intersex, says that they fear using airport restrooms. “I have to literally plan stuff,” they said. “If I’m in a bathroom and I hear that there’s a mother and her child, I’ll stay in the stall until they leave because I don’t want to come out and her to freak out on me if she’s like some like, alt-right weirdo. And so to that point, I know that I have to be much gentler with myself.
“When people watch this, I want people to actually think and reflect on their bodies and on the bodies of people that they’ve been with to be like, ‘What’s all this male and female?’” said Wall. “It’s made up, right?”
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