[On the social production of sexual dichotomy]

Notwithstanding scientific evidence about the development of sexuality and possible sexual variations, the social dogma of the duality of the sexes hardly tolerates deviations from the defined norms of female and male. The diagnosis of intersexuality is mostly considered as a treatable disease with the chance of eventual sexual adaptation; transsexuality in any form is placed at the social periphery as an individual symptomatology. This review discusses the presence, actuality and sense of coherence of heteronormativity and outlines the consequences of an attributed sexuality.