Today's email brought an interesting article that a poet friend of mine sent about intersexed people and issues of surgery performed on them, to make their bodies conform more perfectly to an assigened "gender".

As my friend notes in her posting, "The article in The Atlantic asks 'Should we fix intersex children?' and sets out the problems posed for the medical profession as well as the social issues faced by the children and their parents."

Here is the article itself, which provides an introduction of sorts to the research of psychologist John Money on sex and gender, which was so influential in the proliferation of sex-reassignment surgeries.

My friend's name is Kathleen Jones. We are not related (though folks often contact one of us, thinking it is the ohter one!), but have been in touch in recent years through our mutual interest in writing. She has published a novel (The Centauress) on the subject of intersexed  persons, which some of you may be interested in discovering.