Dyadic here this might sound stupid but do you need to do dilation and hormones or is that just something they made you do so you could fit in with a dyadic sex? If it's necessary, how did intersex people survive without that technology? Also, what representation do you recommend about intersex people, fiction preferably, and do you consider intersex to be LGBT and why?
The medical interventions I underwent were not for my health and wellness.
They were purely to ensure that my body conformed to binary sex and gender expectations. Without the hormones, for example, I would have undergone puberty. I just wouldnāt have undergone āthe right kindā of puberty.
The same is true of vaginal dilation. The only reason my vaginal cavity was dilated was to ensure that I, as a child, would be āreadyā to have heterosexual, penis-in-vagina sex.
This isnāt always the case.
For some intersex people, puberty isnāt possible without hormone therapy and it really is medically necessary to avoid the problems of literally, physically not be able to mature (it can cause spinal problems, joint problems, etc).
Rarely, genital surgery is necessary for infants in the event that they canāt pee, or for similar life-threatening scenarios. More commonly (still rare, mind you), genital surgery is necessary in adolescents due to complications with menstruation or erectile tissues which can cause pain, sepsis, tissue damage, etc.
Vaginal dilation is actually an incredibly common procedure that plenty of adolescents and adults choose to pursue, whether because they are intersex or because theyāve had vaginal (re)constructive surgeries. Itās rarely a medical necessity, but itās a very important quality of life thing, if youāre someone who enjoys having penetrative sex.
Just because some medical interventions are necessary for the health and safety of some intersex people does not excuse the fact that the vast majority of medical interventions that intersex people face are just complete fuckshit nonsense that are designed solely for the aesthetic sensibilities of conservatives somewhere out there in the fucking wilderness.
Which is precisely why most intersex people in the like, old timey times before these surgical interventions were a thing, just sort of went about their lives. Because being intersex is not a death sentence. Itās just often treated as one.