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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 “T he Crying G am e, Texas * and the social and medical Style”: 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 T Coventry C y c le ( ! 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