How rigid thinking on sex and gender can go wrong | The "gender binary" explained
Channel: Brendan Miller
Date: 2018-06-21

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This film examines the foundations of the "binary model" of sex and gender, the idea that there are only two options in life: male and female - and based on your genitalia at birth you can be categorised as one or the other. Defenders of the binary model argue that it is supported by the “biological facts” and that alternatives are a recent invention that go against the natural order of things. I argue that there are reasons to doubt all of these claims, and what’s more, sticking to this model rigidly has caused real harm, as illustrated by the issue of surgery on intersex children. 

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THANKS TO
There were lots of people who helped, but I wanted to highlight these people. Obviously any errors or problems with the film are down to me, not them. 

- Ela Xora http://www.elaxora.com/ 
- Evolution’s Rainbow by Dr Joan Roughgarden https://web.stanford.edu/~rough/  
- Pidgeon Pagonis http://www.pidgeonismy.name/ 

📝📝SOURCES 📝📝
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sFCXrmN_k7NTTFL5e8lUyy9vfvUKNNNGoiy-MZVOxA0/edit?usp=sharing

- Evolution’s Rainbow - Dr Joan Roughgarden
- Intersex Factsheet - United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) https://unfe.org/system/unfe-65-Intersex_Factsheet_ENGLISH.pdf 
- Nature - http://www.nature.com/news/sex-redefined-1.16943#/b2
- Buzzfeed - https://www.buzzfeed.com/azeenghorayshi/born-in-between?utm_term=.bcQE7KbRe#.ln9PKRwn7
- The Atlantic - http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/07/should-we-fix-intersex-children/373536/
- NHS on DSD  - http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/disorders-sex-development/Pages/Introduction.aspx
-  Ambivalent Medicine by Alice Dreger -  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.2307/3528648 
- “I was an intersex child who had surgery. Don't put other kids through this.” by Kimberly Mascott Zieselman | USA Today - https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/08/09/intersex-children-no-surgery-without-consent-zieselman-column/539853001/ 
- “Intersex patients 'routinely lied to by doctors'” by Dr Faye Kirkland | BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39979186 
- Washington Post article http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2017/10/05/the-intersex-rights-movement-is-ready-for-its-moment/?utm_term=.8d6a7ccfc4d7
- “9 Damaging Lies Doctors Told Me When I Was Growing Up Intersex” by Pidgeon Pagonis in Everyday Feminism - http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/12/lies-from-doctors-intersex/ 

🎞️ 🎞️ FOOTAGE & IMAGE CREDITS 🎞️ 🎞️

Full links are in the script - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sFCXrmN_k7NTTFL5e8lUyy9vfvUKNNNGoiy-MZVOxA0/edit?usp=sharing 
- Wing-Chi Poon
- Good Morning Britain
- Telegraph
- Vanity Fair
- HLN
- StevenCrowder
- Itspronouncedmetrosexual.com
- Big Questions 
- Time
- SaraJoyM | Tempibones
- Eva Rinaldi
- avrilllllla
- Ken Hammond
- University Health Network and The Hospital for Sick Children 
- GoldenBear 
- Xeror after Marnanel after Amphis
- Ksaviano
- Albert de la Chapelle
- Claire Ainsworth
- Jonny Wan
- alessandro_eye
- Up |  Pixar Animation Studios; Walt Disney Pictures
- USDA Forest Service
- Drs
- Hyerestourisme
- Vicsandtheworld
- 4028mdk09
- Yathin S Krishnappa
- Mick E. Talbot
- Darío G Lupiáñez
- Francisca M Real
- Rajesh Dadhich
- F. David Carmona
- Miguel Burgos
- Francisco J Barrionuevo
- Rafael Jiménez
- Aquaimages 
- Leonard Low from Australia
- Ewa Barska
- Parent Géry
- Ritiks
- Finding Nemo |  Pixar Animation Studios; Walt Disney Pictures
- Anders Finn Jørgensen 
- D. Gordon E. Robertson
- KENPEI
- Nhobgood | Nick Hobgood
- Author Matthew Hoelscher
- Vincent C. Chen
- Peter Southwood
- Philippe Bourjon
- Ricardo Liberato
- Marie-Lan Nguye
- Himalayan Academy Publications, Kapaa, Kauai, Hawaii
- Nevit Dilmen
- Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-27)
- USAID
- Sarah Stierch
- sharyn davies
- Jeantine Mankelow | Flickr

🎵 🎵 MUSIC 🎵 🎵

- A Better Place - Alexis Smith | Joe Henson | Dot Allison
- Just Some Melods - NOWË - https://soundcloud.com/nowemusic/just-some-melodies @nowemusic