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DISCURSO BIOMÉDICO E INTERSEXUALIDADE: APONTAMENTOS SOBRE A PATOLOGIZAÇÃO DE CORPOS INCONFORMES.

Authors :
Trindade Braga, Patrick de Almeida
Costa da Silva, Marco Antonio
Source :
Perspectivas Contemporâneas. 2023, Vol. 18, p1-15. 15p.
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

Since the consolidation of sexual dimorphism as an ontological truth about gender binarism in biomedical discourse, bodies that, at the time of their birth, do not fit into such discursive standards of normality - which enunciates female or male bodies with a series of specificities - are treated as diseased and included in the diagnostic category of disorders of sex development, a term popularly known as intersexuality. Although several interventions are recommended for the treatment of such "disorders", of a hormonal, surgical or prosthetic nature, the genitals or other sexualized organs are not diseased in themselves, posing no risk to the life of the intersex patient, other than being stigmatized. as abnormal and having his/her existence rendered impossible. Thus, interventions to readjust these bodies to a binary gender intelligibility are not carried out of the need to treat a pathology, but in order to prevent the existence of bodies that do not fit into what is enunciated as normal. Thus, the present work has as its scope the analysis of biomedical statements which treat intersexuality as a patology, in order to emphasise its technonecrobiopolitical character and to make prescriptive notes for an unconditional biomedical hospitality. For that, we do a bibliographic review of the biomedical discourse on intersexuality issues, on productions about the history of sexuality and sexual binarism in Western society and counterdiscursive productions within the field of biomedicine, articulating such notions to queer theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subjects

Subjects :
*QUEER theory
*ONTOLOGY
*DISCOURSE

Details

Language :
Portuguese
ISSN :
19800193
Volume :
18
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Perspectivas Contemporâneas
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
175736643
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.54372/pc.2023.v18.3531