“Intersex status is considered to be so incompatible with emotional health that misrepresentation, concealment of facts, and outright lying ( both to parents and to the intersex person )are unabashedly advocated in professional and medical literature.” The piece goes on to say the opposite is actually the truth and that it is because the suppression of the true facts is what later causes severe emotional damage for the family and intersexual person. The piece also states that living as an intersexual person does not harm a person at all physically. It seems that the procedures are definitely doing more harm than they are good to the person who is undergoing them and also to the family who would be the first to decide for the infant to undergo these “corrective procedures. The questions that I would have for this is what other options do these families have for the infants and what will be the best choice for the person who is going to be effected their entire life?
“Immigrant women are also so vulnerable to spousal violence because so many of them depend on their husbands for information regarding their legal status.’’ I liked this article a lot because it brought attention not only to spousal abuse but showed that there are underlying problems which often times prevent women from seeking the help that they actually need. My question is how do we convince women who are in an abusive relationship to seek help when they may fear that if they leave the abuser they will lose everything they have and their life may end up being worse?