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This 5 page reaction paper provides a response to an article called "The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female are Not Enough" by Fausto-Sterling. The idea that more than two genders actually exist is explored. The paper concludes by calling for a new, equitable paradigm. No additional sources are cited.
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who are born with both sets of genitalia and so gender becomes rather muddled. This is true even though this is a society entrenched in gender. The author goes on
to note that the society only allows for two genders in language. There is he or she, and his or her, and in any language in the world, this is
how things are. A student writing on the subject may want to point out that males and females are also clearly defined
by fashion, by roles, by sexuality and so forth. While this is the case-that men and women are categorized--the author notes that there is such a thing as "the intersexual
body" (Fausto-Sterling, 1993, p.21). One estimate quoted by the author puts the confusion regarding sexual organs at birth, at 4% (1993, p.21). The authors contention is that there are certainly
more than two biological sexes, and that there are perhaps five, or even more (1993). While one can conceive of a third sex-a being with both male and female sexual
organs-there are varieties of such a mix and so ones mind can conceive of many genders. There are broad possibilities. Of course,
the authors notion at first glance appears ridiculous. Everyone in the world knows that there are two sexes. Still, when one truly contemplates the topic, one might remember stories of
babies who were not quite right and where the doctor would secretly remove certain telltale organs to render the baby one sex or the other. And then there is
historical evidence. The recent confusion is something natural to the species, and not something that has evolved over time. The author goes on to explain the origin of the word
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