{"id":217,"date":"2008-09-04T10:40:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T16:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=217"},"modified":"2008-09-04T10:40:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T16:40:31","slug":"sociologist-defines-intersex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2008\/09\/04\/sociologist-defines-intersex\/","title":{"rendered":"sociologist defines &#8216;intersex&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blog &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministe.us\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/03\/officers-sexuality-no-longer-confusing-atlanta-journal-constitution-article\/\">Feministe<\/a>&#8216; recently posted a response to an article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/metro\/content\/living\/stories\/2008\/08\/31\/intersex_atlanta_officer.html\">Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a> about a police officer named Darlene Harris who discovered she was an intersex person at the age of 35.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The original article draws upon sociologist Sharon Preves to define &#8216;intersex&#8217; for a public audience. The article reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She now knows why her voice is so deep, why she\u2019s always been attracted to women, why she can grow a full beard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Harris is intersex \u2014 someone whose internal or external sexual anatomy or chromosomes don\u2019t fit the typical definitions of female or male at birth or puberty, according to Sharon Preves, a sociology professor and intersex researcher from St. Paul, Minn.<\/p>\n<p>Genetic testing recently revealed that Harris carries the XY chromosomes of a male while having external sexual anatomy that appears to be a blend of a man\u2019s and woman\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was like, \u2018OK, I\u2019m not crazy,\u2019 \u201d said Harris, 35, who was identified as a female at birth and has lived her adult life as a lesbian, feeling like a man in a woman\u2019s body.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministe.us\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/03\/officers-sexuality-no-longer-confusing-atlanta-journal-constitution-article\/\">Read the Feministe blog posting.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/metro\/content\/living\/stories\/2008\/08\/31\/intersex_atlanta_officer.html\">Read the original article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blog &#8216;Feministe&#8216; recently posted a response to an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about a police officer named Darlene Harris who discovered she was an intersex person at the age of 35.\u00a0 The original article draws upon sociologist Sharon Preves to define &#8216;intersex&#8217; for a public audience. The article reads: She now knows why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[176],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-sexuality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}