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People Magazine Cover Story - Jeanette

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Coming soon to a cyberKittenVerse near you.. my first caped hero!

Jeanette is a character very dear to my heart as her story has a lot to do with civil rights, gender identity and sexuality. Jeanette is Intersex. If you haven't heard of it, and I wouldn't blame you, it's where a baby is born with "anomalous or atypical genitals" and quite often doctors will perform surgery to fix them to the gender they see fit. Very little thought is given to long term effects it may have on the child. It's different from being trans, where you could be born a boy but know in your heart that you are really a girl. As intersex it means you somewhere in between on the gender binary. Also not a hermaphrodite, as they don't exist in humans but do in some animals. A intersex woman could be born with working testes and no ovaries, but in all other physical ways is a woman. Who are we to define a person based purely on their genitals?

So to get off my soapbox, the story is here that Jeanette is an 18-year old American superhero who has often appeared in the news and press. An unethical "journalist" has uncovered that on her birth certificate Jeanette was registered as John, and so outs her in the press as being either a cross-dresser or a transsexual. Neither of these are of course the case. Jeanette was born with working male genitals and "Congratulations! It's a boy!" and was raised as a boy. It wasn't until she reached puberty and started to develop clearly as a young woman that they realised what had happened. Her hormones are female, she just happens to have different genitals. But try explaining that in the dirtsheets!

So this pure-hearted young woman with a social justice mountain to climb may find sympathetic friends in the near future
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Miarath's avatar
Wonderful work. :love:
Thank you for making this.