Secrets and ‘truths’ about the intersex condition in Grey’s Anatomy

• Autor(a) principal: Siqueira Silva, Luciana Aparecida
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Santos, Claudiene, da Silva, Laíne Lopes, Silva, Elenita Pinheiro de Queiroz
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Periódicus
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/revistaperiodicus/article/view/43016

Paul Beatriz Preciado states that restricting sex to a binomial is a Western obsession, in an interview in 2008. We analyze how the intersex condition and intersex people are introduced in two episodes of the TV show Grey’s Anatomy. We inquire about the discourses called upon on the narratives of these episodes and by the protagonism or invisibility and erasing of the intersex voices and bodies. We focus on the teachings about these bodies found in this series. We find the reiteration of heteronormativity, the exploitation of affective relations, the medical discourse, the diagnosis and the secret that intersex bodies retain. The latter are used as functioning mechanisms of the sex binomial and to the production of gender identity and “normal” bodies, by the family and by medicine, establishing silence agreements regarding the adequacy of bodies to an intelligibility of gender aligned to sex. The TV show permeates the concept of order more than that of disorder.