Treadway's Annabel Winter

In this passage from chapter two of the novel Annabel, Winter expresses to the reader many different perspectives of the story’s main conflict, of how to handle the birth of an intersex child. First, there is the conventional straight forward perspective of the infant’s father Treadway, who is determined to choose a gender for his child; Treadway’s view is that ‘not’ making a choice would result in more harm than good for all involved, his child, his family, their community, society and even nature. Treadway sees a distinct binary world where each individual has a preset role to play based on their gender and to disrupt this societal structure would upset the balance of nature itself. The infant’s mother Jacinta, on the other hand, allows herself