Asking About What Is Better: Intersex, Disability, and Inaugurated Eschatology

Cornwall, Susannah

doi:10.1080/15228967.2013.840972

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“…The state can justify procedures like IGM and the medical surveillance that accompanies these interventions because of the cultural investment in "normal. "Of course, interphobia underpins this law and practice, but so too does ableism, as suggested above(Colligan 2004;Cornwall 2013;Orr 2018Orr , 2022 Wilkerson 2012), queerphobia(Arana and Human Rights Commission Staff 2005;Astorino 2013; Inter 2015;Orr 2022), as well as racism and colonial logics(Magubane 2014;Mitra 2014;Orr 2022;Orr and Watson 2018;Reis 2009…”

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Feminist Surveillance Studies and the Institutionalization of Interphobia

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2022

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Though sex, gender, and sexuality have been subject to ongoing forms of state scrutiny and, therefore, concern surveillance studies scholars—one can think of McCarthy and the policing of homosexuality and the current forms of homophobia and cisgenderism structuring bathroom, sport, and “Don’t Say Gay” laws in the US—there is a glaring lack of attention paid to the violent (colonial) state, legal, and medical projects that surveil intersex people’s body-minds with the (eugenic) goal of eradicating intersex variations to make sex, gender, and sexuality “legible,” dyadic. There is a lack of attention paid to intersex issues in mainstream media as well as from surveillance studies scholars. As a result, as scholars reflect backward over the decades of scholarship in surveillance studies in this anniversary issue of Surveillance & Society, we posit that it is time to use the refined tools surveillance studies offers in service of opposing the often-ignored ongoing surveillance—and killing project—of intersex people’s unique sex traits. In doing so, we focus our attention on surgical interventions, medical photography, and the reproductive technology preimplantation genetic diagnosis. These three case studies offer a sampling of the various ways intersex variations are surveilled and eradicated, and, therefore, signal the importance of integrating intersex issues into feminist surveillance studies. To conclude, we address how intersex activists find each other and propel their activism—activism that combats the surveiling and regulating nature of state and medical-sanctioned interphobia—into the mainstream via information and communication technologies. And yet, there remains so much work to be done. We end on the cautionary note that the ways that intersex activists’ work is routinely stymied and undermined by state and medical forces must be considered.

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Feminist Surveillance Studies and the Institutionalization of Interphobia

Magnet

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2022

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Introduction: Trapped in the Binary

Pikramenou¹

2019

Intersex Rights

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Constitutional and Legal Guarantees for Transgender in Pakistan: Reforms and Failures in Law

Rashid

Umar

2022

Towards Gender Equality in Law

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Transgender individuals in Pakistan have been excluded from political and economic systems. In 2009, the Supreme Court of Pakistan for the first time recognised the unique gender identity of transgender individuals. This Order initiated reforms for the protection of the rights of transgender individuals and compelled various government departments to devise guidelines for the issuance of National Identification Cards (NICs) to all transgender individuals and created a legal framework for their full and equal participation in society. This chapter will analyse the effectiveness of this reform project in relation to other legal rules and entrenched social norms. It will start with an analysis of the historical discriminatory laws which led to a marginalisation of transgender individuals, and evaluate whether the recent developments in law, particularly the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2018, are sufficient to protect the rights of transgender in Pakistan.

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Asking About What Is Better: Intersex, Disability, and Inaugurated Eschatology

Cited by 38 publications

References 20 publications

Feminist Surveillance Studies and the Institutionalization of Interphobia

Feminist Surveillance Studies and the Institutionalization of Interphobia

Introduction: Trapped in the Binary

Constitutional and Legal Guarantees for Transgender in Pakistan: Reforms and Failures in Law

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