"Most medical professionals I spoke with held essentialist understandings of gender that were neatly tied to stereotypical western, white, and middle class expectations of femininity and masculinity…Consistent with a binary logic that suggests sex, gender, and sexuality are all neatly correlated, most doctors used each interchangeably in justifying their essentialist gender views…Medical professional’s essentialist assumption that there is a rigid correlation between sex, gender, and sexuality resonates with the nomenclature shift from intersex to the pathologizing disorder of sex development…Medical professionals view gender as something that should function, and to function properly it must be in line with sex and sexuality… The problem with such approach is that medical professionals are in a position of authority to define and treat these social constructions how they see fit."
―Georgiann Davis, “‘DSD is a perfectly fine term’: Reasserting Medical Authority Through a Shift in Intersex Terminology” (via feministsociologist)
―Georgiann Davis, “‘DSD is a perfectly fine term’: Reasserting Medical Authority Through a Shift in Intersex Terminology” (via feministsociologist)
