tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906442678610585215.post1104470334953246521..comments2024-02-26T02:14:00.144-08:00Comments on TransFusion: Are Trans Communities Losing Intersex Allies in the TERF Wars?Dr. Cary Gabriel Costellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14478058791195474381noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906442678610585215.post-648533686292471812017-06-24T02:03:18.209-07:002017-06-24T02:03:18.209-07:00I absolutely LOVED this post. Especially as it tal...I absolutely LOVED this post. Especially as it talked about what are the REAL axes of privilege when we're discussing cis privilege and trans and intersex identities. My only wish is that I had come across this post much earlier, now. Arekushieruhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08864084880618978400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906442678610585215.post-77279916536269819722017-04-04T15:29:25.018-07:002017-04-04T15:29:25.018-07:00Fantastic article about all the complexities. Fantastic article about all the complexities. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02075936510311755144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906442678610585215.post-40207020139451841402016-11-21T13:36:55.382-08:002016-11-21T13:36:55.382-08:00"Trans people should commit to becoming bette..."Trans people should commit to becoming better and more active allies for intersex folks in the future, and ensure that what seems a natural alliance between trans and intersex communities does not founder, but flourishes."<br /><br />And it's this kind of entitlement from intersex people that makes me want nothing to do with them. Trans people don't owe you anything. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11035695712648703860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906442678610585215.post-45483108369439481642015-10-13T18:54:39.320-07:002015-10-13T18:54:39.320-07:00https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/3...https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/3onflx/hello_gender_brigade_lets_talk_about_intersex/beneficiihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08107436044843445219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906442678610585215.post-24925327018098768922014-11-13T13:03:02.777-08:002014-11-13T13:03:02.777-08:00As a genderqueer trans person, I have a lot of com...As a genderqueer trans person, I have a lot of complicated thoughts about this. A trans intersex acquaintance of mine was recently complaining about the politicization of intersex bodies by people who don't really understand them or oversimplify them to make points. This seems to be especially a danger in the non-binary gender communities. I definitely don't want to use another marginalized community as a pawn for my own cause because that's icky. But when someone's all "blah blah you can't exist because biological essentialism" it's tempting to respond "but intersex people!" (and when I was younger and more clueless I'm sure I did). I'm trying not to because, really, I am a real thing that exists regardless of other diverse bodies and identities in the world - my existence is self-actualizing. <br /><br />There's also the thing that (like you talked about) a lot of genderqueer people feel like finding out we were intersex would make our reality make more sense just internally - when this was brought up in my genderqueer support group a few weeks back every single person admitted they had had thoughts along those lines. Not that we want to have been subjected to invasive and non-consentual surgeries, but a lot of intersex conditions are discovered later in life & finding I have one feels like it would settle some major issues I have with my identity (thus far I have zero evidence that I have any such condition and would never claim I do). Anyway, this post is great and really made me think about this stuff. Plymouth Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00539297105353238798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-906442678610585215.post-29333554081756541302014-09-15T16:06:48.508-07:002014-09-15T16:06:48.508-07:00Cary, thank you for this excellent article. I have...Cary, thank you for this excellent article. I have also explored the gender critical feminist world and found the same conflicts. Rather than critiquing the gender binary many people show a strong tendency to enforce the perceived simplicity of the gender binary. It is strange to see a feminist framework that seems to hold that "biology is destiny" so this essentialism is confusing.<br /><br />As far as the trans people who seem to seek or assert an intersex identity, I think there is an additional factor. Many trans people work very hard to find the "why" of their situation. Did their mother use DES during pregnancy? Do they have a brain structure anomaly? Has the patriarchy poisoned their thinking to the point of mental illness? The motivation is to find a cause that gives them legitimacy, more importantly a cause that removes any self blame. That social scrutiny that the trans and intersex communities share is also turned inwards for trans people. So if there is some "external" validation then their lives and feelings are real and legitmate then they can find peace. That way the appropriation or claiming of a place in life becomes an acceptance of an inevitable place in life.<br /><br />In my trans journey I have been asked directly if seeking to actively dismantle the gender binary with goal of creating a non-gendered world isn't the real solution to this mutually experienced struggle. I answer that this is a noble goal, but that I and my fellow trans peeps have to find solutions that can be applied today in our own lives. And I think that intersex people and trans people are all banging away at the binary construct a little bit through our daily lived lives! Diannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13501248299149011600noreply@blogger.com