This is the review of the article “Who Will Make Room for the Intersexed? ” written by Kate Haas. In that article, the author main focus in placed on intersexed children and their rights of choice and protection of their identities. To defend her point of view, she analysed the medical implications of the surgical intervention and the constitutional part of the issue. She mainly based her arguments on the “Brenda” case , and also, on the fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.
The major strength of this article was the numerous cases of intersexed children, who were fixed” , that she gave in her article as examples. In these cases, she was clearly presenting the different negative impacts that genital reconstruction could have on these people lives. The major weakness of this article was the absence of a criticism of the silence of medias on this issue. We all know that the media is an important tool in the socialization process. Media consider that subject as taboo. ” It only vehiculates strong images of the actual society”. A sensibilization through the medias would be the first step on the non-discrimination of the intersexed people.
Social construction: an idea that may appear to be natural, normal, and obvious to those that accept it, but it’s actually an invention or an artifact of a particular culture or society. We can clearly point some examples of social construction p11 “…Money would often force her to engage in sexual role-play with her twin brother in order to enforce that she was a girl and he was a boy” also p10 “During that period, the medical community determined that intersexed people were truly male or female but had not fully developed in the womb”.
The Essay on How does Mass Media affect people in society?
So far, there’re various media for people to choose and access the information such as television, radio, Internet, or even mobile phone, consequently, media have a full capacity to set a social subject for mass audience to think and talk about. Often, media do not deliberately set the agenda and determine the pros and cons of that particular issue, so it repeatedly causes bad consequences ...
In conclusion, if I could choose one piece of information in that article to integrate into a high school sex education curriculum, it would be the part called “Making Room for Intersexuals in the United States” because I think it is important for future generations to know the different implications of the acceptance of intersexed people as part of individual freedom. I think it is important for new generations to understand that every human is different and it is important to protect each person right.
