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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexAlicit and
Thank you for adding this. I was extending solidarity on a personal basis to someone who was kind enough to share her own experience and expectations & brave enough to make her trauma public. If it’s vital for anyone to declare sex classification that’s true for
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(And sorry if the @ wasn’t welcome)
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The Darlington Statement is also violated regularly by people insisting on a "third sex marker" being enforced. I would also like to bring attention to the Malta Declaration, which stresses exactly what I pointed to.https://intersexday.org/en/malta-declaration/ …
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The Malta Declaration is the one that proposed a "third sex" category in the first place, the Darlington Statement, which came four years later, amends this by saying this is a bad solution and there should be no enforced legal categories at all
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The Darlington Statement is the one that's more "radical" - the direction of movement has clearly been of greater opposition to medical gatekeeping and categorization, *against* the idea that "all intersex people can and must be defined as objectively male or female"
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