If you have an exception to your 1s and 0s, you no longer have a binary, by default, and you cannot make binary rules for it, by default. Saying xx = phenotypically female is binary, and it's wrong. You can only say xx ≈ phenotypically female. And some TW will be xx.
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Transgender is not an intersex condition. The right of intersex people *not* to have their bodies modified without their consent to some stereotypical “ideal” is not the same as transgender demands to have their body modified to a stereotypical “ideal” of the opposite sex.
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Where CAH is treated in newborns this is not to make their bodies conform to a stereotypical idea of sex; it is to prevent the baby dying of salt wastage. This has nothing whatsoever to do with the “assignment” of sex.
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Once again, you strawmanning is ridiculous. I said: 'understanding and diagnosing' intersex conditions. Do you think this shouldn't happen? Are you aware that many intersex conditions are not even detected until puberty, particularly in girls?
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Chu would rather let babies die than diagnose congenital adrenal hyperplasia early enough to save a life.
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