Why I have changed my thinking about intersex
by Martin Davie:
Towards the end of his life Augustine of Hippo produced a work called The Retractions. At the beginning of the Prologue to this work he writes:
‘For a long time I have been thinking about and planning to do something which I , with God’s assistance, am now undertaking because I do not think it should be postponed: with a kind of judicial severity, I am reviewing my works – books, letters and sermons – and, as it were, with the pen of a censor, I am indicating what dissatisfies me.’ [1]
In undertaking this task Augustine is setting an example which all theologians should be willing to follow. All theologians write things which, in retrospect, they see were mistaken and they need to be prepared to admit this fact and correct their own work in order that others may not be misled by their errors.
In this blog I want to follow Augustine’s good example by taking the pen of a censor to what I have previously written about the phenomenon commonly known as ‘intersex.’
In order to begin to think about this phenomenon we need first to understand that the physical sexual differentiation between men and women is a matter of differences in what are known as the ‘genotype’ and the ‘phenotype.’ As I explain in my book Glorify God in your Body:
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