ABSTRACT
Queer theory has been characterized in large part by a desire to challenge and contest sexual boundaries and essentialist portrayals of sex, and to stand in contrast to heteronormativity. This chapter shows how differences and variations across queer theologies and queer theories create both problems and potential for using queer methodologies in considering intersex/DSD. Iain Morland and Annabelle Willox hold that it was HIV-AIDS which catalyzed queer into being a political strategy rather than an identity, through demonstrating that other socially- and biologically-based identities were no barrier to contracting HIV. Katrina Roen and others have shown that queer identity for people who have undergone surgical intervention on their bodies is, at least in part, a production of medical discourses. Some scholars, such as Grace Jantzen and Daniel T. Spencer, have explicitly expressed a desire to employ queer approaches which address ecological and political liberationist concerns too.
