Iāve recently started looking into radical feminism (peaking I guess?) because the way the trans community talks about intersex people does my head in. For context, I have a rare and female specific intersex condition. It only affects genetic females, but my chromosomes didnāt separate into ānormalā female chromosomes. In recent years, Iāve seen people argue that sex and gender are a spectrum, not binary, and people like me are proof. And I donāt know how they donāt realize how insulting that is. Firstly, what does my disorder that causes me health issues have to do with a perisex person self identifying as a different gender? Secondly, the insinuation that I am a lesser female, that Iām some third category, just because of a random genetic error is fucked up. Humans are defined by being bipedal, but we donāt look at babies born without legs as a separate species. We acknowledge they are humans that simply didnāt develop the way weād typically expect. But because my chromosomes didnāt develop the way we typically expect for females, Iām somehow a third category or somewhere between a male and female? Itās like they donāt even realize they are implying Iām less female than the ārealā females because of a medical condition I canāt control. I reckon the majority of people saying this shit arenāt even intersex themselves and Iām sick of people using us to fit their narrative. The first time Iāve seen anyone online talk about us like normal human beings that just happen to have a medical condition has been from blogs under the radfem tag.
when it comes down to it, trans rights activists are trying to mystify sex as much as possible. If sex isnāt real, or itās a spectrum or whatever else, then women (adult human females) have no basis to consider ourselves a distinct group with our distinct interests. This will make feminism defunct, and males would face little to no backlash or consequences for using their fetishization of femininity to speak over women, intrude in our spaces, and have access to us at our most vulnerable. If women canāt define ourselves in a court of law, then the law canāt protect us.
Itās wrong that you and your condition are being used to do this. You didnāt ask for this. Not to mention all the ways your life must be made worse through the misinformation campaign. The forced-teaming with TRAs is annoying also, coming from a lesbian.
The truth is there is room in radical feminism for women with differences of sexual development, or intersex women if you prefer. Feminism is for female human beings. No if, ands, or buts.
