subject: Teaching Intersex Is a Powerful Addition to The English or Gender Studies Classroom [print this page] Another exercise that I find works particularly well involves the kinds of role-playing that Paula Ressler has compellingly advocated for the teaching of issues of sexuality. The students form small groups, each member taking a different role: child or adult born intersex, parent, doctor, supportive friend. Have students role-play around these different positions, giving them different scenarios (such as the child is born with both female and male gen-italia and the doctor advocates removal of the male genitaliaa common "solution" to the intersex condition). Challenge them to discuss each perspective and work to resolve or further articulate their disagreements. Once either a stable consensus or disagreement has been reached, have the students Tag Heuer Replica Watches step out of their roles and reflect on who benefits most and who benefits least from the consensus or disagreement. Have them also reflect on whose voice should count the most and the least in the scenario. As teacher, you may have to play devil's advocate on occasion and argue more strongly for the voice of the intersex person, since this is the role with which the students are least likely to immediately identify.
Teaching Intersex Is a Powerful Addition to The English or Gender Studies Classroom
