“One wonders whether the insistence on early intervention was not at least partly motivated by the resistance offered by adult intersexuals to normalization through surgery. Frightened parents of ambiguously sexed infants were much more open to suggestions of normalizing surgery, while the infants themselves could of course offer no resistance whatever” (Chase 32)

This quote really raises an interesting question. When parents are forced to make this decision for their child, are they basing their decision off of their child’s need or for themselves? Are parents too fearful that they may be “blamed” for the child being “different?” If this idea of “normalizing” children becomes less important in society, it would be interesting how things, like this, would change. Maybe then, children can grow up and make the decision for themselves. They can decide to be one way or another or embrace their identity.

“The controversy publicly erupted in 1991, when organizers of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival expelled a transsexual woman from the campground, or ‘The Land,’ announcing that the festival is open to only ‘womyn-born-womyn,’ a category designed to exclude transsexual woman” (Koyama 699).

This too brings up a rather interesting point. Is there really tension between feminists and transsexual women? One would think that because they are all fighting for the same cause that everyone would get along fine; that they would be united by one front. But does the fact that a woman used to be a man really a just reason to not let them become involved? And if feminists do feel the need to exclude transsexual women, then aren’t they, in fact, doing to others what they are trying to prevent for themselves?