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Assignment #3

In this reading, Kessler provides many factor that impact the way physicians and parents understand of intersex children. The physicians believe in the theory that gender must be determine by eighteen months gender ambiguous infant. According to the theory, the correction of gender should be take as soon as possible. If the infant is assigned to be a boy, the repair of penis will undertaken in the first year, and the surgery will be completed before the child enter school. In another hand, if the infant is girl, the repair of vulva will begun in three months, and the surgery will be done in early childhood.

The case of an intersex child will give more pressure force to the doctor rather than the parents. In this situation, the doctor will say things that are inappropriate, such as telling the parents to raise the boy infant as a girl. But the parents will more rather to just remember it’s a boy, and forget the main part of the conversations. And the reason of doctor telling the parents in the inappropriate way is that parents will get ahead and give a name and tell everyone, if the result of the identification of child gender was opposite, it will turns out the way the child has to be raised in the opposite sex.

Since in this society people are just consider for being in two kind of genders – either female or male. The culture determines how people live in the society for being a men or women. Other than this two gender, intersex child must be stand in the lower class in this condition. that’s why it’s so important to identify the clear gender of the intersex children before the child reach the puberty and work on the society.