On Intersex Awareness Day (US dept. of State)

US government ^ | 10-26-23 | MATTHEW MILLER, DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON

[dynachrome]

Today in celebration and recognition of Intersex Awareness Day, we affirm the United States’ commitment to promoting and protecting the human rights of Intersex persons globally. As President Biden stated in his 2021 Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons Around the World, it is the policy of the United States to pursue an end to violence and discrimination on the bases of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and sex characteristics.

Intersex persons often face stigma and discrimination in accessing education, healthcare, and legal recognition, and are subjected to medically unnecessary surgeries. These harmful practices, which can cause lifelong negative physical and emotional consequences, are a medical form of so-called conversion therapy practices in that they seek to physically “convert” Intersex children into non-Intersex children. We applaud all activists, organizations and governments working to raise visibility and protect Intersex persons’ rights to bodily integrity and to ensure equal protection and recognition before the law.

[Menehune56]

What does this have to do with the State Department anyway?

Exactly the right question.

[Carriage Hill]

“I don’t even know what intersex means.”

I didn’t either, had to Google it, and the US Govt site defined it, as being between male and female, not ID-ing with either. I call it more mental illness, for special treatment and special rights.

It’s now at 58 genders on that FaceBarf crap site.

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/02/heres-a-list-of-58-gender-options-for-facebook-users

[lee martell]

The old, more direct term is Hermaphrodite.

[lepton]

There are roughly 4,000-8,000 intersex people in the US. Probably less than a dozen of which are fertile. They are talking about people who imagine themselves to be intersex.

[lepton]

Intersex are those who have mixed genitalia, usually shriveled or deformed. This occurs in some with xxy chromosomes where both the additional x and y are active. It is very, very rare and it is unlikely most LGBTQ folks have every knowingly met more than one without seeking them out.

[lepton]

For instance, an XY with 100% androgen insensitivity would never be a convincing male,

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Those xy with 100% androgen insensitivity are fully female in form, and would typically have no reason to think themselves otherwise. They are only technically intersex, not really.

[Freee-dame]

In the past when a baby was born with indeterminate genitalia, doctors made their best educated guess, which sometimes turned out to be wrong when the child reached puberty. Nowadays with DNA testing, why can’t they just know immediately which way the person will go when they reach puberty?

[Dr. Sivana]

Those xy with 100% androgen insensitivity are fully female in form, and would typically have no reason to think themselves otherwise. They are only technically intersex, not really.

True, and until the discovery of DNA few would have even known. Nonetheless, they would be infertile, have no menses, and would be missing key internal organs. They likely would have a weakened sex drive. Still, they would have lived lives as female with no one suspecting a difference (other than the infertility).

[dynachrome]

Britney Griner?