Gendrification
One time, a professor told us about a series of ten confirmed genders that lie on a spectrum between “male” and “female.” This is per the scarce liberal arms of the scientia sexualis establishment. In the years since I acquired this information, I have hazily wondered why there are only restrooms designated for two genders. There are also wardrobes, manners, sexualities, names, and expectations for only two genders. This would be the big issue with raising Middlesex‘s Cal as an intersex child. Despite scientific and historical findings, intersex individuals are unaccounted for and socially unacceptable. So, within this constructivist frame parents and doctors who want a child to grow up uneventfully and “normally” will not risk this child’s comfort to put into question the method behind the two-gender madness. The gradation of “male” and “female” chromosomes, chemicals, genitalia, preferences, and attitudes is not represented in the elementary school, where one restroom says girls and the other boys.
Tags: family, gender roles, identity, scientia sexualis, social constructivism