Intrasex and transgender is not the same thing.
Intrasex are people born with some development of both sex organs. This is a physical condition.
Transgender people are people that have one set of sex organs but believe they are actually a member of the opposite sex. This a psychological condition and may be a mental illness in children.
The two are not the same thing. It is possible for the intersex not to which sex they are until puberty. A transgender person can know long before but rejects the identity associated with his/her physical sex.
Not the same thing, so drop the biology. We are talking psychology.
Biology says you can't define what is male and what is female.
We are talking psychologicalcategory against discernible physical sex. We are talking about gender dysophia, not the many varied forms of intersex and the genetic mutation s that classify it.
You are way off base here.
Physical sex? What sex is an XY female, male or female?
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Jack4jill If the person identifies and acts as a female, then society understands
that person by the female label. If the person identifies and acts as a male, then society understands
that person by the male label.
For example, I identify with both Democrats and progressive liberals, Christians and Conservatives, Constitutionalists, Unitarian Universalists, Universal Salvationists, and can even speak some of the language of Muslim Americans and American Buddhists (but not pure Buddhism or pure Islam).
Which one do I identify with?
When I am speaking with a Muslim friend, and we work out ideas using Muslim principles, then we are expressing that culture or language.
When I am addressing Christians or Constitutionalists, we may use the Bible or Constitutional laws to spell out points and agree on principles and procedures.
When I talk with my liberal friends we may discuss prochoice or other principles in the Democratic Platform the party is supposed to be fulfilling.
Again, this is why I prefer to address this issue in terms of beliefs, so people are free to express it.
Yet we are also responsible for not imposing our beliefs on others who have equally valid ways of
expressing their beliefs.
This is obviously NOT a matter of genes.
But I do agree with you in terms of people being born with sex organs of both genders.
So they have to choose which one they want to identify with so society knows how to label them for legal reasons.
This problem is not isolated to just gender. The Prolife Democrats in my own party have a heck of time being included at all when everything is prochoice. The conservative latino community complain that the only views portrayed in the media are the latino immigrant minorities who are used to promote the Democrat liberal agenda; especially the conservatives who are against abuse of welfare and immigration laws are NOT being heard, but assumed to follow the same party line as the liberal Democrats.
So if the LGBT community REALLY wants to complain about labeling and suppressing individual voices and diversity, well, the entire liberal agenda is accused of "painting all women, all Blacks, all Latinos" as MINORITIES supporting THEIR agenda,
while censoring the ones who DON'T FIT THE MOLD.
So good luck
Jack4jill I actually like your arguments that you cannot pin down male/female
to just XX and XY.
By that philosophy, we shouldn't be limiting Americans to just
left/right
Republican/Democrat
and say that represents all Americans.
We are just as guilty as oppressing diversity!