Name: What it means to be intersex | Susannah Temko
Uploaded: 2020-11-02T18:16:36.000Z
Duration: 14 min 5 s

Transcriber: Leslie Gauthier Reviewer: Krystian Aparta

譯者: Lilian Chiu 審譯者: Amanda Zhu

I have a confession to make, right off the bat.

我不知道你們十六歲時在做什麼，

but I'm a really big fan of "Harry Potter"

and was waiting way too long to receive my letter

且有好長好長的時間都在期盼收到

inviting me to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry --

讓我進入霍格華茲魔法 與巫術學院的邀請信——

I was also waiting for an invitation to the Jedi Temple

or a tap on the shoulder to invite me to the X-Men.

或收到加入 X 戰警的秘密邀請。

and told that I am in fact part of a group of people

醫生告訴我，我屬於一個幾乎隱形

who are still largely invisible and misunderstood.

在座許多人可能是第一次 聽到「間性人」這個詞。

it will be the first time you've even heard the word "intersex."

它指的是出生時就有一種或多種

It refers to people who were born with one or more

也就是說，你的生殖器、 你的荷爾蒙、你的染色體

That's your genitals, your hormones, your chromosomes

不符合傳統上對男性女性身體的觀念。

that fall outside of the traditional conceptions of male and female bodies.

我們對人類這個物種 所做的最基本假設——

the most basic assumption we've made about our species --

學校教導我們，性別是二元的，

what we're taught in schools that sex is binary,

和世界上大部分的事物一樣， 性別沒有二元這麼簡單。

人類歷史上間性人一直都存在，

他們不屬於這種錯誤的二元性別。

Intersex people who fall outside of this false sex binary

have always existed, throughout human history.

有些間性人甚至不知道自己是間性人。

Some of us don't even know that we are intersex.

有些間性人的特徵在出生時就很明顯，

有些人的特徵則要在 青春期時才會出現。

and others turn up around the time when puberty is supposed to kick in.

有些人會以為自己 是世界上唯一一個這種人。

some of us believe we are the only ones in the world.

各位應該知道， 那表示我是典型的男性。

which you may have understood to be typically male.

I was also born with gonads instead of ovaries.

Standing here on this stage would have been my worst nightmare

那表示其實間性人很多， 要看你身在何處，

Intersex people are thought to make up to 1.7 percent of the population.

That means more, depending on where you are in the world,

你排隊買咖啡， 排在前面的可能就是間性人；

在火車上，坐在你旁邊的 可能就是間性人；

可能有間性人在 約會 APP 上滑你的資料。

we are swiping you left and right on dating apps --

所以，為什麼你都沒聽過我們？

If we are so common, why don't you see us?

我們通常認為醫學及法律等學術領域

We often think of disciplines like medicine and the law

法律是「不受情感影響的理性」。

比醫生的手術刀 或藥師的藥丸更重要。」

may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's pill."

In truth, these disciplines that touch our lives are impressive,

雖然這些領域的知識 對我們生活的貢獻很讓人欽佩，

just as we are not immune to the effects of that prejudice,

同樣的，我們也沒有對 那些偏見造成的效應免疫，

In medicine, intersex babies who are born with ambiguous genitalia

are routinely operated on without consent,

出生時生殖器難以確定的雙性寶寶

in order to make their healthy anatomy appear more "normal."

This is before they've even said their first words,

indicated a sexuality or a gender identity.

目的是要讓他們 本來就很健康的身體構造

Many people are never told the truth about their intersex traits,

and those who are are instructed, often, not to tell anyone.

這在寶寶能開口說話之前就發生了，

Secrecy is enforced and shame is a close shadow.

他就這樣被指定了 一種性向或性別身分。

許多人都不知道事實上 自己有間性人的特徵。

intersex people fall outside of categorization,

知道的人，通常則被吩咐 不可以告訴任何人。

被迫要保密，羞恥感總是形影不離。

if you can imagine the number of forms you've filled out

更重要的是，他們也不受到保護。

specifically, the Gender Recognition or Equality Act.

And intersex people cannot correct the sex classification

更不要說在法律下沒有任何保障，

unless they declare they are transgender.

特別是性別認同或性別平等法案。

且間性人無法修改他們在出生時

these life-altering problems are starting to be addressed.

So why does this matter to those of you who aren't intersex,

唯一的辦法就是宣稱自己是變性人。

who don't have variations of sex characteristics?

經過幾十年積極推行改革之後，

I imagine many people in this audience have,

這些會改變人生的問題 漸漸有人開始因應。

如果你們不是間性人， 沒有變異的性徵，

私下在自己家裡的浴室中納悶……

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