Anne Fausto-Sterling
Anne Fausto-Sterling counts at least five anatomical genders: herms, merms, and ferms, as well as
females and males. But she adds that this is still a reductive classification;
our bodies embrace "a vast, infinitely malleable continuum that defies the
constraints of even five categories." Nonstandard or intermediate genders are
far more common than you might think: indeed, Fausto-Sterling says, they "may
constitute as many as 4 percent of all births." But most often the othergendered
are immediately "entered into a program of hormonal and surgical management so
that they can slip quietly into society as 'normal' heterosexual males or
females." Such is the actual effect of the supposed autonomy of language and
culture. If your flesh doesn't obey Lacan's Law of binary difference, then your
compliance will be enforced with drugs and the surgeon's scalpel. --Steven Shaviro, Doom Patrols
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