Orchids: My Intersex Adventure: Documentary Analysis

Transgender and intersexed are not what one thinks of when contemplating about societies overall interpretation of gender definitions. Transgender meaning that one?s gender expression does not match their assigned sex and intersex being person who is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that does not fit the definition of female or male. The biological body is stereotypically assumed to be a single organically combined natural object.
It is very difficult to find good information in intersexuals. Most of the recent studies of this issue suffer from the same problems as between the sexes, felling as if they don?t do enough research or they take from too small of a sampling. The problem being that it is not easy to find intersexuals to survey, being due to fear or social discrimination. It is safe to say that although evidence like transgender and intersex show that there are deviations in the genders, people still have a hard time straying from …show more content…
Some of the issues touched upon by the documentary relates to some of the recent news stories about intersex rights. According to Phoebe, the documentary?s main character, being intersexed left her feeling unsure of herself. She spoke of a sense of isolation and the pressures received from others about being different. Making up lies to cover up things, the difficulty in finding a partner and problems that occur when they do; among what she expressed to be issues affected by being intersex. Phoebe and the other characters also spoke of having both mental and physical scarring. Those physical scars are a result of the many surgeries intersex babies go through to make them ?normal?. Doctors play a huge role in the life and future of an intersexed child. They not only make the decision of which gender the child best fits, they surgically alter the child to make sure it