Emily Quinn: The way we think about biological sex is wrong
Emily Quinn: Cara kita berpikir mengenai seks biologis salah
Emily Quinn describes herself as "a ballsy intersex activist who uses humor and storytelling to create a more welcoming world for people who don’t fit in a box." Full bio
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as a surprise to some of you.
sebagian dari Anda.
about my genitalia.
mengenai kelamin saya.
about bravery or courage.
atau kegagahan.
saya punya testis.
punya ovarium.
biologically either a man or a woman,
Anda adalah pria atau wanita,
complex than that.
somebody could be intersex.
interseks.
I was born with XY chromosomes,
terlahir dengan kromosom XY,
as male chromosomes.
kromosom laki-laki.
and balls inside my body.
testis dalam tubuh saya.
payudara saya tumbuh,
or body hair, body oil.
bulu badan, minyak tubuh.
actually have a uterus --
I can't have biological children.
saya tidak bisa punya anak.
based on their genitalia.
berdasarkan kelaminnya.
we ask whether it's a boy or a girl,
apakah laki-laki atau perempuan,
about having a baby
berkurang saja
the genitals you wanted;
diinginkan
tells you anything about that person.
menjelaskan sifat orang tersebut.
pada Anda.
kita dengan hal itu.
putting people into boxes
menggolongkan orang
with one another.
berinteraksi satu sama lain.
you also have your chromosomes,
Anda juga punya kromosom,
your hormone response
like breast development, body hair, etc.
seperti payudara tumbuh, bulu badan, dll.
all have so much variation,
banyak sekali variasinya,
of a single other human trait
satu sifat manusia
that's it, no other options.
itu saja, tidak ada pilihan lain.
for our bodies to look,
tampilan tubuh kita,
that there's that much variety
XX or XY chromosomes,
kromosom XX atau XY,
kromosom XX dan XY?
people with XX or XY,
dengan kromosom XX atau XY,
at the scene of a crime --
tempat kejadian perkara --
but, you know, we'll see.
tapi, Anda tahu, lihat nanti.
thousands of years from now,
tahun dari sekarang,
and has to have her ovaries removed?
kanker ovarium dan ovariumnya diangkat?
who are born without balls or ovaries
lahir tanpa testis atau ovarium
or a combination of the two?
atau kombinasi keduanya?
to be a woman?
menjadi wanita?
who are born without one.
uterus.
alat kelamin:
that's exactly this thick,
persis setebal ini,
at a 90-degree angle,
sudut 90 derajat,
that's this wide internally
selebar ini
above the vaginal opening
bukaan vagina
like they're supposed to look like,
sebagaimana seharusnya,
you watched that one time.
suatu kali.
sexual partner in your lifetime,
pasangan seksual selama hidup,
just by their genitalia.
mereka dari kelaminnya.
are both so ingrained in our society,
tertancap di masyarakat kita,
into one box or the other,
satu kotak atau kotak lain,
to make you question it.
Anda bertanya.
I'm the exception, an anomaly, an outlier:
adalah pengecualian, anomali, orang asing:
around two percent of the population.
dua persen dari populasi.
as genetic redheads.
rambut merah.
the entire population of Russia.
Rusia.
kami ada banyak.
every culture in history.
dalam sejarah.
that they're intersex.
mereka interseks.
to determine your chromosomes?
untuk menentukan kromosom?
for all of your hormone levels?
untuk level semua hormon?
last year, in his 50s.
di usia 50an.
for intersex human rights here in the US,
manusia interseks di sini, AS,
41 tahun.
beliau mempunyai kanker,
she wasn't "fully" a woman.
"sepenuhnya" wanita.
or kept in the dark about our bodies,
tidak diberitahu tentang tubuhnya,
to a lot of people.
about sex or bodies at all,
membicarakan seks dan tubuh sama sekali,
mengejek atau mempermalukan.
di usia 10 tahun,
I was fine with that information.
saya baik-baik saja atas informasi itu.
my understanding of the world.
pengertian saya tentang dunia.
society's expectations of me,
harapan masyarakat,
play with the "wrong" toys
main mainan yang "salah"
about gender norm,
norma gender,
about who they're supposed to be
bagaimana seharusnya mereka
sukai atau cintai.
hal-hal seperti itu.
until we put it on them.
kita pakaikan pada mereka.
that I would also get cancer
saya juga akan kena kanker
to tell me that every year.
saya setiap tahun.
who want me to remove them.
ingin saya membuangnya.
like yourself, has testicles,
punya testis,
becoming cancerous --
menjadi kanker --
of it becoming cancerous.
away from the body to cool off,
untuk mendinginkan diri,
they're not producing sperm.
tidak memproduksi sperma.
saya.
of information about intersex people,
orang-orang interseks,
the difference.
mengerti bedanya.
I needed to have surgery on my vagina.
vagina saya harus dioperasi.
until she operated,
dioperasi, sampai beliau mengoperasi,
"normal sex" with my husband one day.
normal" dengan suami saya suatu hari.
with the operation,
operasi,
kehidupan seks saya.
to tell the difference
unless I told you;
saya beri tahu Anda;
that I was intersex unless I told you.
interseks kecuali saya beri tahu.
of understanding about bodies,
pengertian tentang tubuh,
the difference.
perbedaanya.
my sex life is fine.
kehidupan seks saya baik-baik saja.
bring up memories of doctors touching me,
mengingatkan saya disentuh dokter-dokter,
emosional --
the physical harm
kerusakan fisik
unnecessary surgeries.
tidak perlu ini
from the emotional harm
dari kerusakan emosional
that tries to cover up your existence.
menutupi keberadaan Anda.
have had operations like these.
menjalani operasi-operasi seperti ini.
testes like mine,
is lower than the risk of breast cancer
rendah daripada resiko kanker payudara
no predisposition, no family history.
tanpa sejarah keluarga.
to remove her breasts, do we?
membuang payudaranya, kan?
that hasn't been operated on.
belum pernah dioperasi.
to improve intersex kids' lives,
meningkatkan kehidupan anak interseks,
doing the opposite,
kebalikannya,
komplikasi,
doctors are bad or evil.
adalah jahat dan kejam.
that causes some doctors to "fix"
dokter untuk 'memperbaiki"
their definition of normal.
that needs to be enlightened.
diberi pencerahan.
puberty guidebook
pubertas tanpa gender
about their bodies as they grow up.
tubuh mereka seiring pertumbuhan.
or their boy bodies --
cowok mereka --
on the things that our bodies do
realistis pada yang dilakukan tubuh
a full, luxurious, hipster beard,
janggut hipster yang keren, lebat,
a few mustache hairs,
sedikit kumis,
about who they are as men?
laki-laki?
respond to testosterone in different ways.
merespons testoterone dengan cara berbeda.
a man ashamed about something like this?
malu akan hal semacam ini?
we could live in a society
hidup dalam masyarakat
tidak punya rasa malu
that our bodies do or do not do.
tidak dilakukan tubuh kita.
about biological sex in this society --
tentang seks biologis dalam masyarakat --
the world as round, right?
dunia itu bundar, kan?
with mental disorders
gay dengan kelainan mental
by the devil anymore, so that's cool.
babkan oleh setan, jadi itu bagus.
the more we understand as a society.
dan berevolusi,
save intersex kids
menolong anak intersesks
orang lain
inadequate or ashamed
tidak layak atau malu
you were too girly,
terlalu perempuan,
atau terlalu jantan?
for not fitting into a box,
yang tidak sesuai lingkungan,
because it prevents them from seeing
itu mencegah mereka untuk melihat
inside our boxes, either.
dalam lingkungan kita.
nobody actually fits in a box,
pas di lingkungannya,
is something we constructed,
adalah sesuatu yang kita ciptakan,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Emily Quinn - Artist, activist, authorEmily Quinn describes herself as "a ballsy intersex activist who uses humor and storytelling to create a more welcoming world for people who don’t fit in a box."
Why you should listen
At age 10, Emily Quinn learned she was intersex. As she writes: "Doctors said not to tell anyone, poking and prodding at me like I was a science experiment. It was lonely, shameful, and I had nowhere to turn. I needed someone to tell me that it would be OK, but no one was there.
"Fourteen years later, I discovered an intersex support group, meeting hundreds of intersex people who endured trauma like mine. I knew it had to stop. I was working at Cartoon Network and decided to help create the first intersex main character on television: Lauren on MTV's 'Faking It.' I publicly came out as intersex alongside her debut, and suddenly I was bombarded with interviews, appearing in content across the web. The impact was so great that I quit my job, created a YouTube channel, began speaking globally about intersex experiences, and am now writing a YA novel. In ways I could have never imagined, I became the person I needed as a kid -- showing myself that one day it would be OK."
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