Age of Conversion, 21

Age of Gonads, 20, 127

alternative rhetoric, xiii, 2, 10–12, 39, 129

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), 12, 17–18, 22, 24–27, 32–36, 118, 122–123, 127, 130

American Association for Klinefelter Syndrome Information and Support (AAKSIS), 70

Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group (AISSG), 70–71, 84, 98, 106–108, 111, 120–122

anonymity, 48–49, 51, 136

Appadurai, Arjun, xviii, 13, 57–60, 91, 105

Aristotle, 18

asynchronous communication, 14

Biesecker, Barbara, 62

billboards, 74

bio-power, 96

Bodies Like Ours (BLO) Web site, 14, 37, 69

bonding (bond), 13, 64–65, 67–91

kinship, 48–49, 56, 60, 88

weak ties, 47, 95

Butler, Judith, 10, 42, 90, 96–97, 124

circuit of culture, 33

Code, Lorraine, 62

confronting, 13, 64–65, 85, 109, 111–127

counter-discourse, 15, 28, 56–57, 60–62, 97

culture, xiv, 2, 6–7, 11, 15, 33, 57–58, 60, 64–65, 78, 82, 90–91, 105, 113, 130–131

cultural forces, xiv, xvi

cultural production, 13, 34, 126

Dartnell, Michael, 113

deterritorialization, 57

Diamond, Milton, xvi, 24, 29, 130

discursive norms, 5

discussion forums, 14–15, 37, 46, 52, 54–55, 57, 74–76, 89, 108, 114

Disorders of Sexual Development (DSD), 26–27, 50, 119–120, 129–130

disseminating, 13, 64–65, 93–109, 126

doctors. See medical practitioners

Du Gay, Paul, 11, 13, 33–34, 64–65, 126