• SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    There is some conflict between some organizations of people who were born intersex and some LGBT organizations. That being that the intersex people in question have different goals and sometimes different identies: those being ending medical abuse of newborns and infants and that some of them do not consider themselves “LGBT” or transgender because they were either forcibly transitioned or are not trans quite literally, meaning they have adopted their sex as their gender identity, their intersexedness being something innately biological rather than wholly social, to them.

    This is a complex and often heated topic, but I thought I would throw this out there. The “conflict” I described is very rarely antagonistic in nature, just that LGBT rights organizations tend not to have the resources or the same goals that intersex people need to live properly fulfilling lives, and that’s why intersex orgs exist separately. It’s a very important subject nonetheless and infant abuse and discrimination against intersex people needs to end. If they want to surgically alter themselves whenever they are able to give proper informed consent, that should be their prerogative.

  • Ratette (she/her)@lemmygrad.ml
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    In the UK intersex individuals don’t exist (they do) according to medicine because from what i understand parents are forced to decide the child’s sex as soon as physically possible after birth vs letting the child grow and make that decision based on the puberty they go through and how they feel.

    So from what I’ve read/heard when this happens like the UK intersex people may end up going through the wrong puberty and then have to go on hormones for the rest of their lives or transition all because the doctors take the piss.

    It was noted as one of the major (among many) failings of the UK around lgbtqi+ rights in something I read a while back.