"Intersex is a beautiful thing": How this activist found healing | Salon Talks

[@TerryMcKennaFineArt]

There is much good here. But it is absurd to say that sex is not Male or Female. It is clearly the design. And as with all living creatures things don't always go as planned. None of this says that we should not have a better way to describe folks in birth records. And... while red hair is not a matter that requires a lot of work to understand, in fact intersex variations are very hard to understand. The medical knowledge to understand this is failry recent - so not accessible to folks in the 18th and 19th century.

[@BustedRust]

How come that wikipedia defines intersex incidence to be 0.02 to 0.05% when you (and other YT sources speak of 1.7% incidence…? Very informative post though!

[@GeorgeDebute]

I really admire Alicia's courage and I appreciate her educating us about her experience of life as an intersex person. Anyone should have the right to identify and behave in a masculine or feminine way and express themselves without being harassed. This should include people who disagree on trans-gender issues. We deserve to be heard and not simply mislabeled as haters. We need to balance trans-gender beliefs about their identity with the understanding that humans have been a dioecious species with rare (around 2%) exceptions, such as intersex, for the last 2 billion years (back to being bacteria). You wouldn't claim that the World is flat even though we can't actually see it. We can actually see our organs. Behavior can go completely outside of stereotypes but the words for both sex and gender, male and female, women and men, mother and father all refer to the two distinct sexes. The reproductive organs are the vehicles for regenerating the species, an absolutely important purpose and a person only ever has one set. The biological real differences between male and female start in the womb and continue developing well past puberty. Taking hormones and getting sex change surgery sterilizes and mutilates the body so that it can't function. Telling anyone they're "assigned" sex at birth or can really change their sex or gender is gaslighting. It's treating a psychological issue with disfiguring surgery. We have a medical establishment eager to profit from all this confusion and push for surgery after surgery until the person is a polarized caricature of their perceived "gender".

[@tnomi1965]

Perhaps you should listen more, and speak less, when it comes to other people's lives. It's their lives, and not yours.

[@mogynamite008]

And pretty too....

[@alakazoom87]

she's pretty

[@ragingjaguarknight86]

Liebe ist für alle da.

[@hahanah1463]

😴😴😴😴

[@Brian_Boru]

I'm so disappointed Dune 2 got postponed.

[@alakazoom87]

In Dennis we trust though!

[@tonytocanova]

Just because someone nice says it doesn't make it true. If it happens to less than 1% of humans, then statistically you likely actually have never met an intersex person. Americans and their lack of understanding of basic math strikes again. Jeez.

[@metaldemort]

It's actually the opposite 😅 Statistics are not intuitive.

[@mabro0101]

Lack of understanding of math is funny, isn't it. If something occurs in 1% of humans, and you've met at least 69 people in your life, the odds that you've met someone in that 1% are >50%. n = log(0.5) / log(0.99) So I suppose depending on your definition of "likely" (greater than 50/50 seems reasonable as that's more likely than unlikely), unless you're a hermit or homeschooled, you've met more than enough people for it to be likely. "American math" seems to work just fine... although over here, we just call it "math".

[@joeewell4846]

By the numbers there are 1 in 50 girls born with XY CAIS throughout both the US and the rest of the World. XY CAIS is the most common intersex condition, closely followed by Klinefelter's ' XXY. My condition is 48 XXXY CAH, born a "true hermaphrodite", female internally and both male and female externally, with 2 ovaries and 2 testes, uterus (surgically closed) and penis (UT rerouted).

[@cybeleearth]

The number of intersex people the world over, equals to about half the population of the United States. That's a lot of people. If we actually start testing every person in the world, we would find a whole lot more people are intersex.