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shooting at trans people as funny," Courvant
told Just Out. “T he punch line was even ‘Both
shots missed.’ How can trans people...ever be
safe when the people who shoot at us are only
criticized when they display bad aim?”
Courvant said she approached the daily news­
paper for an apology hut has gotten nowhere. "At
The Oregonian, our murders are still a laughing
matter. It begs the question, is The Oregonian
encouraging hate crimes on purpose ?”
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attacking intersex activists.
Emi Koyama, director of Intersex Initiative,
a Portland-based patient advocacy organization,
says the coalition’s criticism of a 3-year-old
report she co-prcxluced indicates it has no clue
what intersex activists are working toward.
Titled “Intersex Activists Push Multiple G en­
der Theory," the alert states: “The gender confu­
sion movement is now openly promoting the idea
that there are more than two sexes. The Intersex
Society of N orth America is leading this
effort...ISNA has produced a curriculum for col­
lege courses that describes the objective of ‘de­
constructing’ what it means to he male or female.”
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is part of “Teaching Intersex Issues,” a booklet
produced by Koyama and a Portland State U ni­
versity biologist. Contrary to the coalition’s
C utting C ommentary
claim, however, the main report from the book­
from ‘T he E dge ’
let criticizes gender theorists for exploiting
intersex existence as a theoretical device to
he June 22 edition of “The Edge,” a daily
“deconstruct” binary gender categories, arguing
humor column that runs in The Oregonian,
that the ftKus should he on the
made light of an anti-trans hate
§ real-life experiences of people
crime in an item headlined
5 bom with intersex conditions
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issues they face.
“At a club in Fort Worth,
Texas, when a man found out
Koyama says the coalition is
also wrong to claim that inter­
his date was actually a man he
sex activists are advocating for
pulled out a gun and fired a
more th an two genders.
shot at him, then fired a second
Activists oppose cosmetic sur­
shot when his date returned to
geries on intersex children
get his purse and leather
pumps. Both shots missed.”
because they are medically
unnecessary and harmful to
Diana C ourvant was not
their physical, emotional and
amused. She is the co-founder
sexual functioning; however,
of Survivor Project, a nonprofit
they are not advocating that
organization that addresses the
intersex children he raised
needs of intersex and trans sur­
vivors of domestic and sexual
without a gender.
violence.
In addition, the coalition’s
“It is almost impossible to Diana Courvant has accused
W eb site features a document
express how offensive this is. The Oregonian of encouraging titled “Exposed: T h e Claim
T h at Hermaphrodism Is a Sep-
The Oregonian was promoting anti-trans murders
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