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Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper
TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013
WILD ART
VOL. 161, ISSUE 40
Let’s talk about gender By ALEX PAUL news@thedepauw.com
The DePauw chapter of Students for Life of America placed the "Cemetery of the Innocent" display on East College lawn Monday morning. Students for Life is an active pro-life organization that seeks to end abortion. The display commemorates the "3,700 lives lost to abortion every day in America." The display will remain on campus until Friday. SUNNY STRADER / THE DEPAUW
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A group of 25 individuals gathered in Peeler Auditorium Wednesday to listen to INTERSEXtion of Queer Bodies and Biomedical Practice. Hilary Malatino, a postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University in Bloomington Ind., gave the lecture. She began by giving the best definition she could find of what an intersex individual is: “’Intersex’ is a general term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male.” Malatino took the definition from what is formerly known as the Intersex Society of North America. Malatino said one in 2,000 babies are born intersex, although she also has heard of odds as high as one in 1,000. “We all have a gender identity,” Malatino said. “The concept was used to make sense of intersex issues.” John Money, a twentieth century psychologist, coined the term gender identity. He used it differently than Malatino though. “Money used the term when the gender couldn’t be determined using biology,” Malatino said. Malatino told the crowd that in the early to middle twentieth century if an infant’s sex wasn’t apparent using what she called a “Phall-O-Meter,” doctor’s performed surgery, which would determine the sex of the child, and the parents would raise their child accordingly. Any genitalia measuring between .9 centimeters and 1 centimeter meant the child would get assigned as a female; below .9 centimeters a girl, and above one centimeter a male. “If someone was born with ambiguous genitalia they had to be altered with the gender they parents are raising them,” Malatino said. Malatino did not agree with all of Money’s work,
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