Topic summary
Queerness
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Queer.
Intersex and queer identities
Scholars and activists have proposed different ways in which queer identities apply or do not apply to intersex people. Sociologist Morgan Holmes and bioethicists Morgan Carpenter and Katrina Karkazis have documented heteronormativity in medical rationales for the surgical normalization of infants and children with atypical sex development, with Holmes and Carpenter further describing intersex bodies as queer bodies. In "What Can Queer Theory Do for Intersex?" Iain Morland contrasts queer "hedonic activism" with an experience of insensate post-surgical intersex bodies to claim that "queerness is characterized by the sensory interrelation of pleasure and shame".