Homosexual Urban Legends -- what a bizarre name for a series on that staple menace to this country's godly inhabitants: the pro-homosexual agenda. And the web art -- on the level of 1950s horror flicks -- is just silly.Among the of-course topics -- NAMBLA, pedophiles -- featured in the series is an entry on hermaphrodites. This surprised me since hermaphroditism is a condition one is born with; even the Traditional Values Coalition can't argue that one chooses to be an intersex individual. And it also is a condition that is objectively verifiable by gross anatomy, imaging studies, lab studies, genetic workups, etc.
So why obsess about those who took a very novel spin on the intrauterine wheel of fortune?
Well, for the Traditional Values Coalition, this is why: Researchers such as Anne Fausto-Sterling* write things such as:
Why should we care if there are people whose biological equipment enables them to have sex 'naturally' with both men and women? The answers seem to lie in a cultural need to maintain clear distinctions between the sexes. Society mandates the control of intersexual bodies because they blur and bridge the great divide. Inasmuch as hermaphrodites literally embody both sexes, they challenge traditional beliefs about sexual difference: they possess the irritating ability to live sometimes as one sex and sometimes as the other, and they raise the specter of homosexuality.If the existence of gays and lesbians threatens the Traditional Values Coalition's rigid notions of a dichotomous universe, just imagine how they reel when people propose the existence of five or more sexes or the concept of a sexual continuum.
Remember, "traditional values" demand that nothing be ambiguous, including one's genitalia.
*Note: Anne Fausto-Sterling is Professor of Biology and Gender Studies in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Biochemistry at Brown University.
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