Hi sir,
The Lesson that really got me thinking especially about myself was the gender lesson. While studying for our 3rd or 2nd LT , I found out that I was part of the intersex sex. It was listed there Hypospadia was counted and I remembered that, that’s what I have. I was operated when I was in Kinder and Prep to fix the appearance of my penis. So when I was reviewing I searched what it was, it’s implicatins and other things. I found out that I have low testosterone in my body. I guess that explains my lack of facial hair and leg hair as both my brothers and father have a goatee and lots of leg hairs. I remember also, asking my mom before that if my urethra were a few inches lower would I be a female, since my Hypospadias was severe where the urethra was really low where the penile shaft and scrotum met.
When I was thinking about this I remembered the play Boy. In Boy, it was about a boy who had an infant circumcision gone wrong so she was raised as a girl. And, He/She had all the questions and everything. Before he found out what he really was. Growing up, I always thought that my condition was only physiological. But, this year I learned that hormones were involved too. And, in school and by my brothers I remembered would always tease me gay for displaying effeminate behaviour. And, I think the hormones contribute to that? However, that’s okay no harm was done.
I remember, also in class about intersectionality. Well, since only my family and some classmate, cause I used that sometimes as a “fact about me” when you introduce yourself in the first day of school, knows I never really felt oppressed because of my condition or sex. Growing up looking like a regular boy, it was okay for me. In my PPCT, boys are not marginalized and since nobody knows about my sex I never really felt oppressed because of this.
Also, I remember in Bronfenbrenner and globalization modules that a person is complicated. Each of us have our own PPCT and all of these interact with each other that influences us and each other as well. Also in the PPCT, since the world that we live in mostly globalize we have our own local and global self. Which is complex and amazing? With that, that means that more than hormones and sex defines you, since you influence your own PPCT as PPCT influences you.
In this class, I learned how the individual can influence the environment and how the environment can influence the individual. When I was shocked about the discovery of me being part of the intersex community, I did not know what to feel. I was intrigued by the discovery and I am not sure of its implications. But, reflecting about it, the discovery did not changed my upbringing and early development. It also did not changed my PPCT growing up and now. It also did not change my habitus. It kinda changed my oppression matrix, but not really. This discovery just told me that I was part of a group. That I was intersex. But, previous Socsci lessons reinforced that even though now that I found out that I was intersex I am still me. I am still Mark born August 30 2000.From Taguig studied in Ateneo from GS to now.Likes Basketball, Movies and the Boston Celtics. I am still all that just now that I’m intersex. We still don’t know what the future holds, but I think my discriminations and opportunities will still be the same.
It was fun semester sir, Thank you and God Bless 🙂
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