A very interesting article on the conflict between Intersex activist and the Transgender community. Which is at odds with each other and sometimes at war with each other. The key issue in the article is always about the medicalization of any “gender” and any child when it comes to intersex kids.
From The Article:
The demands by intersex activists that children should not be forced by the administration of surgery or hormones to fit into a sex category, is diametrically at odds with the developing practice in western medicine of transgendering children diagnosed with gender dysphoria through the administration of puberty blockers as early as 10 years old.
The concept and practice of transgenderism is founded in a profound belief in innate gender difference, a belief that the experience of intersex persons often contradicts.
What’s interesting about the article as well, is that some transgender people like to pretend and think that they have an intersex condition and pretend to pass themselves off as an intersex person. When in reality they are “intersex wannabes” and faking it. Here’s a clear example from the article:
Children and adults with an intersex condition are very different from what are commonly called “transgenders”. There is nothing unusual about the chromosomes of persons who are transgendered, though sometimes transgender activists deliberately describe themselves as intersex. They may wish to suggest that their condition is biological rather than about the pursuit of bodily changes to fit more closely with their ideas about the “gender” they want to represent.
The problem with this is that transgender activist have pissed off and offended so many intersex activist and intersex people, by deliberately pretending and trying to pass themselves off as an intersex person. They try to garner sympathy from the public by pretending to claim that their condition has a biological cause and that they think they can pass themselves off as intersex people.
It’s an interesting article and sometimes to read. Here’s the link:
http://theconversation.edu.au/orchids-sheds-light-on-the-secrecy-surrounding-intersex-5030
