J.K. Rowling’s Support of Researcher Fired for Being Anti-Trans Sparks Backlash
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Supporters of trans rights have always argued on the basis of gender and pointed out how it's separate from sex. They call themselves "transGENDER" after all.
But now it appears they actually believe that biological sex can be changed and expect science to conform to their delusion. The world is getting crazier by the day.
I don't really know anything about all of this or what has been said, but I do know someone who was born intersex - she says she hit the trifecta when she was born: she was born a Louisiana Cajun, intersex and with male chromosomes, meaning she'll whoop your ass if you mess with her - and she has always considered herself to be totally a woman, and not something 'other' simply because she could never give birth and has to take hormones to 'appear' female, like male-to-female transgenders do as well.
Also, I totally believe her when she says being born intersex is as common as someone being born a red-head, but the difference is usually intersex people don't come out and tell people their history since they've always lived as the gender they are, so you don't normally hear about it, which makes it seem rare. I knew her from years ago in the gay bars when she would date lesbians and transsexuals, but she also now speaks openly about being intersex on her Facebook page.
I wonder why people never criticize her saying she isn't a true, genetic woman like a 'real' woman that can menstruate and give birth? Just a question.
A person who is intersex is suffering from a genetic disorder like albinism. It's not like being born with red hair. It's why no one has a problem considering her a real woman. Just as we would consider an albino of African or Asian descent a "black" or "Chinese/Korean/etc.", we would consider an intersex person male or female depending on their most prominent or recognizable traits.
Also, I totally believe her when she says being born intersex is as common as someone being born with a red-head, but the difference is usually intersex people don't come out and tell people their history since they've always lived as the gender they are, so you don't normally hear about it.
This is not true. Before the transgender craze of today, there was the intersex craze of the 1990s and 2000s. This was a period when tons of people born in the 1930s and 1940s started coming out of the woodwork appearing on national talk and news programs talking about how doctors had either mutilated them at birth or parents had forced them to "pick a gender" growing up. Here are some links:
20/20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9isjj-Rj1u0
Oprah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9a1rXOpIuc
The reason why you don't hear from or about intersex people anymore is that transactivists erased them by laying claim to their identity and experiences. For example, you may be hearing a lot of transactivists ranting right now that gender doesn't exist at birth, that the doctors assigns it. This is literally transactivists hijacking the narratives of 1930s and 1940s intersex people whose doctors had performed plastic surgery on them. So what's going to happen is that over time, people will associate this "picking gender at birth" thing more with the transgender experience than intersex, to the point where the intersex will further be marginalized in favor of transgender identity. share