AWhoopsieDaisy
Just Call Me Daisy
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- Feb 27, 2022
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I've bottled this up for a while so stick with me.
When you go to your profile settings there's a section to put your sex. There's a variety of options and even a distinction for trans men and trans women.
As someone technically classified as intersex (it's complicated, and what handful of conditions constitute intersex is a big topic for debate that for the scope of this post, can be overlooked) It's painfully obvious that the sex options were not written by someone who knows what intersex is.
A person is intersex if they naturally have sex characteristics (primary or secondary) from both sexes. This isn't a hermaphrodite situation where one person has all the parts. Intersex for the most part describes men with gynecomastia (male breast tissue growth), women with internal testes, anyone who's chromosomes don't line up with the anatomy they have, ect. There's a wide range of conditions but one thing is very clear. Intersex isn't a gender. It's a modifier.
Every person is either intersex or perisex in the same way every person is either cisgender or transgender.
You can be a Perisex transgender woman
Or you can be an intersex cisgender woman
Thats how the words are used and formatted.
It's very annoying to see intersex as a sex option with no actual gender to apply it to.
When you go to your profile settings there's a section to put your sex. There's a variety of options and even a distinction for trans men and trans women.
As someone technically classified as intersex (it's complicated, and what handful of conditions constitute intersex is a big topic for debate that for the scope of this post, can be overlooked) It's painfully obvious that the sex options were not written by someone who knows what intersex is.
A person is intersex if they naturally have sex characteristics (primary or secondary) from both sexes. This isn't a hermaphrodite situation where one person has all the parts. Intersex for the most part describes men with gynecomastia (male breast tissue growth), women with internal testes, anyone who's chromosomes don't line up with the anatomy they have, ect. There's a wide range of conditions but one thing is very clear. Intersex isn't a gender. It's a modifier.
Every person is either intersex or perisex in the same way every person is either cisgender or transgender.
You can be a Perisex transgender woman
Or you can be an intersex cisgender woman
Thats how the words are used and formatted.
It's very annoying to see intersex as a sex option with no actual gender to apply it to.
