4. I’m watching the notifications and I don’t have any intent to be the kind of person who imposes on you the way you’ve described so I’m gonna butt out and listen
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Replying to @eyelidlessness @nadine_feiler and
Sex is not a bimodal spectrum, we'll start with that. Intersex people, otherwise known as "Disorders/Differences of Sexual Development" is a medical umbrella of 40+ congenital conditions of sexual development that are sex specific to males or females. The confusion raises ->
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Replying to @AlexAlicit @eyelidlessness and
when we look at a singular factor, when there are five in total. Genitalia is the most common observed factor but due to our misunderstanding of clitoris vs penis, we tend to judge genitalia ambiguous when it really isn't. Plus in cases of intersex females specifically with ->
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Replying to @AlexAlicit @eyelidlessness and
a rarer virilized condition in the CAH umbrella: You end up with a salt wasting issue that can be fatal if the baby's sex isn't determined as female, her clitoris is often mistaken for a "penis" when it's just a case of heavy virilization, no surgery is necessary and the child ->
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Replying to @AlexAlicit @eyelidlessness and
will grow into her genitals as is. Currently these standards which is where a misunderstanding occurs leads to IGM occurring for these children to "fix their genitals" when that should be up to the child when she's old enough to consent. Surgery should only be applied when it ->
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Replying to @AlexAlicit @eyelidlessness and
is medically necessary which does turn out to be the case in a certain intersex male condition : PMDS, one of the variants especially if caught early has the highest rate of malignant transformation but this would be left unknown if the child's sex wasn't known. Which stresses ->
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Replying to @AlexAlicit @eyelidlessness and
my initial point of the sex based nature of our specific conditions. Generally speaking sex is binary, but gender expression falls on a bimodal spectrum. Intersex people although rarely can have varying gender identities, or even no gender identity and simply accept their sex ->
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Replying to @AlexAlicit @eyelidlessness and
The pressing matter for intersex people is that we want accepted as male or female, with no reinforcement of stereotypes, conformity and no IGM. We want treatment, awareness and the stigma to be removed. Intersex people are male or female. I'm happy to explain more if need be.
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Replying to @AlexAlicit @nadine_feiler and
This is beyond helpful and I appreciate you taking the time to talk through it. I’m going to rethink how I approach discussing either topic, and I sincerely regret any way I wrongly conflated these issues. My whole motivation is acceptance of people for who they are /cont
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Replying to @eyelidlessness @AlexAlicit and
For the record, the Darlington Statement (an attempt at a consensus statement among intersex orgs and activists in 2017) says the opposite of this One of its core action items is to end the practice of legal sex classification, for everyonehttps://darlington.org.au/statement/
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And states that it is vital that intersex people - like everyone - have the freedom to declare their sex classification as male, female, non-binary, or n/a, without medical gatekeeping of any kind
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