"The Five Sexes" by Anne Fausto-Sterling

I found the article "The Five Sexes" by Anne Fausto-Sterling very interesting. I only knew about male, female and hermaphrodites, and not about the two other categories mentioned in the article. It seems that the author is uncomfortable with parents or guardians making a choice early on in the hermaphrodites' lives to seek treatment for them to fit them into the two gender category established by society, but at the end of the article the author recognizes the difficulties that the hermaphrodite may face growing up in a society dominated by the perspective of two genders, the sense of isolation and perhaps the ridicule and suspicion these people will have to face. This reminds me of people that have to go through life having a mental condition. Although some people need to be medicated, if we medicate everyone who is different we will have a very boring society. There is no acceptance of "neurological diversity" in this society, and although parents could decide to medicate the person early in life and change his/her personality for the future, they may decide to let the person face society as he/she is. But the truth is that society is not ready to deal with people that are significantly different. For society the concept of freaks is alive and well. There is no easy choice, change the person early on, or let them decide after facing harsh treatment by society ? The author favors the alternative of letting the subject face society as the subject was born, but recognizes the pain and courage the subject and the parents will have to have if pursuing this alternative.