Intersex historical perspective for a decolonial vision

Abstract

This article deals with the different ways that society deals with the intersex body from a decolonial perspective. Passing through the mythological vision going to the indigenous vision until today, observing the treatment of the Catholic Church and the clergy and how that and the European colonization causes the vision of this body to be still distorted. Aiming to demonstrate that colonization helped with the pathologizing view that today has of intersex bodies, as if the intersex person suffered from some illness. The study was carried out by tracing a timeline with the researched bibliography, from anthropologists to doctors, to understand how society dealt with or objectified intersex bodies over the years, with a Eurocentric view. When comparing the treatment of intersex people in indigenous communities with the way the Jesuits treated them today, we perceive remnants of this Catholic Eurocentric memory, however removing the patriarchal and religious issue, but continuing to treat it as a disease and not as human beings that they are. The stigma was placed by the binarism created in the bible that God created man and woman, so it was inconceivable to have another body that did not correspond to one of these.