Steve QJ
2 min readApr 6, 2022

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Jesus, this really is like the greatest hits of every stupid argument I hear online to justify the denial of reality. I'm simply talking about sex. Male or female. chromosomes, secondary sex characteristics, reproductive organs, these all lead to the same point in almost every single case.

Intersex is not a biological sex. It is a developmental condition that gives some of a minuscule number of human beings traits of both males and females. Most intersex people are still unambiguously male or female. They just have some kind of variation of karyotype or internal reproductive organs that makes their sex not immediately obvious.

They're not a new sex, they just have a developmental disorder (hence the term Difference in Sexual Development or DSD). Just as some children are born with one arm or conjoined with another child, yet we don't say it's impossible to tell how many arms people have or how many humans are contained in one body.

It's not complicated. It's complicated to you. You just throw out a bunch of terms you clearly don't understand as a smokescreen in the hopes that one of them clouds the issue enough for you to claim victory. Because you're too uneducated, or perhaps simply too indoctrinated, to understand the things you're talking about.

But even if I granted all the stupidity that has come before this point, even if intersecx people truly were a completely new sex, INTERSEX PEOPLE ARE NOT TRANS PEOPLE. You still wouldn't be able to change sex simply by saying you had. There would still be such a thing as a male and a female and trans people would still be one or the other.

Again, the annoying thing is that this doesn't matter. I'm not arguing against calling trans women "she" or their right to present in any way that feels authentic, I'm arguing for an acknowledgement of reality and of the rights of women to safety and privacy and to compete fairly inspirit I know you don't care about any of these things. But as I said in the other reply, I've got better things to do with my time than repeat what to any non-mysoginist is perfectly obvious.

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Steve QJ
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