#transneutral

This is Jim Sinclair, at the time going by Toby. They are a neuter, asexual and intersex enban, and a seminal autism activist. They have been an educator on transneutral nonbinary identity, non-binary transition, the anti binarist position and intersex issues for decades. This is an interview with them from the 1980s, talking about their experience as a non-binary/genderqueer person at a time where the community was just coming together.

"In a 1997 introduction to the Intersex Society of North America, Sinclair wrote, "I remain openly and proudly neuter, both physically and socially."

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become comfortable with sex being fluid and changeable.

become comfortable with things like HRT and surgeries literally changing aspects of sex.

become comfortable with sex traits existing as a spectrum rather than in rigid boxes.

become comfortable with the fact that the words and guidelines weve made for "the two sexes" are just generalizations in human development and anyone can have any collection of those traits.

become comfortable with the line of intersexuality being blurry and unclear.

become comfortable with most intersex people having variations that are unknown or not studied due to the variations in human sex.

push for more study in areas of sex that would help people to be their healthiest selves, but not to stigmatize them.

push for people to be able to describe their gender and sex however they wish.

push for the abolishment of sex assigned at birth.