Famous academic queer theorist 'I was only joking'

[Chiochan]

Anne Fausto-Sterling, apparently a super rated academic gender studies theorist recently revealed that her influential (~1300 citations!) and ostensibly serious 1993 paper "The Five Sexes" was "tongue-in-cheek" and "ironic." That is, it wasn't a serious argument.

twitter.com/Fausto_Sterling/status/1229806460340768768

But its our fault for not getting that she was joking (we are just not on her level of interlect), oh and by the way she kicked off the intersex rights movement.

An earlier thread about this www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3827093-Fausto-Sterling-5-genders-I-was-ironic-Its-called-scholarship

I think a large problem is that her theory of 5 sexes (whether tounge in cheek or not) gets dredged up by TRAs as evidence to support the variance of gender and thus the arguement that you can be 'trapped in the wrong body' or have 'a female brain'...conflating those with genuine DSD with trans self ID-ers

Robert A Heinlein in I think it was 1961 postulated eight human sexes (male, female, homosexual male, homosexual female, bisexual male, bisexual female, narcissist and neuter) and by 1986 Lois McMaster Bujold included hermaphrodites who bred true in her Vorkosigan Saga books. Anne Fausto-Sterling was behind the trend and a little conservative, then. I don't think she was joking exactly; I think she had been reading science fiction.

If I'm not mistaken, this is the theorist oft-cited on Twitter by Alice Roberts as unassailable evidence for her pro trans stance.