It's called "forced teaming" and TQ+ do this a lot. They take someone's actual, real world struggle or oppression and hitch their own cause to it. Because their cause is fiction and nonsense and has no validity - and the way to obfuscate that is to link themselves in other people's minds with actual valid causes they care about.
It's why the T got added to the LGB in the first place. Because being a transsexual or a transvestite has got absolutely nothing to do with being same sex attracted. If you were T and happened to be same sex attracted, then you were already covered with the LGB, and if (like so many of them are now) you are opposite sex attracted, you have no place in LGB spaces.
But, at the beginning of the 21st century that was a big push on gay rights, an upsurge of acceptance from the normies, anti-gay laws were being pulled down while civil marriages and the equal marriages were being instated.
The T hitched their wagon to the LGB star. It's the new frontier. The next civil rights movement. Objecting to adult men in women's toilets filming themselves like Lilly Tino (though he is far from the first) makes you the same as the people who say "it's Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve".
They did it to BLM as well - which is why there is a brown and black triangle on the ever more ridiculous "progress flag". Ever seen them says "trans women are women the same way black women are women"? And their constant bandying around of the word "intersectionality"?
They take the reality of women of colour - that the misogyny they face also comes with a side of racism, and that the racism they face also comes with a side of misogyny and they cannot escape this double bind - and make it about them.
They can absolutely fuck off with that racist bullshit. No, black women are not women the same way that men are. Black women actually are women. End of sentence.
And they do it with individuals who have DSDs (Difference in sex Development - for some people with these conditions, Intersex is an offensive term... this has not stopped the "I" being added to to TQ+ without their request or permission).
DSDs are useful to the trans movement because, in the case of some very rare DSDs, a person can look entirely female, externally go through what appears to be a female puberty (breast growth, hips widen, no facial hair, voice doesn't break) but they never get their period. And when the tests are done to see why this has happened it turns out they have internal testes instead of ovaries and a condition called CAIS (Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome). This means their body cannot process testosterone and therefore they do not go through male puberty or develop a penis. They look like a woman and their external genitalia looks totally normal for a female. They were told they were a girl when they were born and raised as a girl and no one suspected anything was wrong until they were a late teen and still had not attained menarche.
They are an XY individual who has always been considered a woman, and who is externally indistinguishable from a woman.
It genuinely would be unkind (and unsafe) to insist these people were men and make them use the men's toilets and changing rooms.
And from the existence of CAIS individuals, trans activists can claim that sex is more complicated that XX (woman) and XY (man) that we can't know our own chromosomes unless we have had them tested (a very male viewpoint, if you have had periods or - indeed - a baby, your womanhood is beyond doubt. Which doesn't mean you have to have these things to be a woman, but just that they are evidence of womanhood which means a chromosome test is unnecessary and most women have periods, so most women know beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are women).
They then use this very rare medical condition to tell us that therefore that great hulking man in a frilly frock and lippy might really be a woman, and no we can't tell and no we can't ask.
They use DSDs to pretend that something as simple as biological sex is actually very complicated and therefore (with a bit of squinting and a great leap of logic) trans identities are valid. And men can use women's facilities.
They don't care whether or not people with DSDs want to be involved in this (and actually they have asked time and again to be left alone). The "I" has been added to the TQ+ and now - conveniently - anyone questioning it is a bigot.
If anyone is interested in learning more about actual DSDs, their movement to advocate for themselves and how this relates to the trans movement I suggest you check out the wonderful @MRKHVoice blog which is run by a woman called Claire Graham who, unsurprisingly given the name of her blog, has the DSD MRKH syndrome.
The interesting thing about DSDs is that rather than disprove the sex binary they actually shore it up. They are not "between the sexes" (which is why intersex is considered offensive, as it suggests they are). They are either "intersex male" or "intersex female". As in some DSDs only affect women, and the others only affect men. They are variations within a sex, not a different sex or somewhere in between.
Here are a few which prove the binary:
MRKH is a female DSD - it is where a woman is born without a uterus and has a shortened or absent vagina. She still has XX chromosomes, and ovaries, a vulva and goes through female puberty.
Klinefelter Syndrome - is a male DSD, where the boys chromosomes are XXY. They are externally and internally male but the extra X chromosome can mean they have wider hips or develop small breasts, their gentials might be smaller, and puberty is delayed. They are still very much men, albeit with a medical condition.
46XX - another female DSD, usually caused by a lack of the enzyme that helps produce cortisol. Without cortisol the female fetus produces more androgens than normal and this can cause their clitoris to grow larger and their vagina to close up. This can be corrected with surgery, and is the DSD that I think Lady Colin Campbell has (she is called Colin in the same way that Princess Michael of Kent is called Michael - she uses her husband's name in order to use the title - not because she has a DSD and so uses a boy's name).
5ARD - Another exclusively male one, This is Caster Semenya's and Imane Khalif's DSD. Again, due to a problem producing the correct hormones, male children are born with ambiguous genitalia and often mis-sexed as girls, and raised as such. At puberty they start to develop as normal boys. They have internal testes and Semenya has fathered children with his own sperm. Immoral talent scouts actively look for boys like Caster and Imane, knowing that they will dominate any women's sport they are put in. This is quite a useful DSD for the trans narrative - not only the kerfuffle around Khalif last summer - but because little girls who suddenly turn into boys are very useful for the "born in the wrong body, what would you do if tomorrow you woke up and you were suddenly a boy/girl" trope. It is, however, a medical condition and one that the boys themselves have to navigate, trans people do not go through the same thing at all and them hi-jacking it does nothing to help those with 5ARD.
Turner syndrome - Where a girl is born with only one X chromosome. This can cause her to have a shortened life span.
Differences in Sex Development have absolutely nothing to do with trans people. In the same way that Diabetes has nothing to do with trans people. They are a series of rare medical conditions, which affect those who have them but tell us nothing about anyone else's identity.
Trans activists have forced teamed with them - hijacked their narrative against their will and used their stories to bolster their own claims - because they hope both people's lack of knowledge of DSDs and their natural sympathy for people who have them will help them accept trans narratives and not ask too many questions, convince them sex is too complicated and they just don't understand it all, and reinforce the need to "be kind".
Even that dread trans phrase "assigned at birth" has been stolen from the DSD community.
But they have nothing to do with each other.
A trans person could have a DSD, the way a trans person could be LGB, and in which case they can belong in both the T and DSD communities but that does not mean the communities are the same, or should merge.
As with the LGB, people with DSDs have struggles of their own totally distinct from trans struggles.
So when they are brought up as part of the trans narrative, the answer is "Intersex is considered an offensive term by many, please don't use it. People with DSDs have repeatedly asked not to be included or used in this argument. Your point is irrelevant (and probably factually incorrect)."
But do check out Claire's blog if you want a better depth of knowledge for next time this comes up
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