This article brought tears to my eyes and then made me furious.
I think the heart of the whole thing is here: "we perform questionable medical procedures on certain patients, like intersex people and conjoined twins, when we consider those patients to be less than human."
"We consider"--as if our personal mental quirks gave us the right to alter the bodies of other people--people unable to speak for themselves--so that we are more comfortable looking at them. What needs to be changed is our vision, not their bodies.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2006-09-24 05:09 pm (UTC)I think the heart of the whole thing is here:
"we perform questionable medical procedures on certain patients, like intersex people and conjoined twins, when we consider those patients to be less than human."
"We consider"--as if our personal mental quirks gave us the right to alter the bodies of other people--people unable to speak for themselves--so that we are more comfortable looking at them. What needs to be changed is our vision, not their bodies.
I can hardly express how much this upsets me.