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In recent years there has been a growing number of trans and non-binary activists who have diagnosed themselves as being intersex. They hear that intersex means “in between sexes” and so use intersex disorders as proof that biological sex is “a spectrum”. They then use this belief to conclude that “if sex isn’t binary, then gender isn’t binary, so non-binary is valid”. Thus, comes their self-diagnoses of being intersex.
The whole belief that intersex=in-between body has been around since the time of Ancient Greece, where the first gender confirmation surgeries were performed (Archive). In the 1920’s genital surgeries for intersex patients became the main treatment for such disorders, and in the decades that followed many doctors performed or recommended intersex surgeries. This included the likes of John Money, a sexologist who is best known for the failed John/Joan experiment. Many intersex infants were brought up female as it was easier to create a vagina instead of a penis (the term “assigned male/female at birth” comes from intersex gender assignments).
It wasn’t until the 1990’s when intersex patients spoke up about their experiences with the surgeries and post-op complications. They founded advocacy groups and teamed up with medical associations to address intersex surgeries and how to properly manage intersex conditions. The John/Joan case was made public and revealed to be a failure. Intersex activists demanded an end to gender-assigning surgeries on intersex infants.
In the decades since intersex activists have spoken out about issues such as nonconsensual surgeries and the banning of women with intersex disorders in sports. While there are intersex activists who are actually diagnosed with intersex disorders, most intersex activists are trans and nonbinary activists claiming to be intersex so that it justifies their gender identities. They don’t take into consideration the health problems that come along with intersex disorders and the confusion that parents of such children face when learning that their child is intersex.
Mainstream science publications such as Scientific American have listened to the trans activists invested in intersex issues and have given them the an even louder voice, as can be seen in this chart from their September 2017 issue.
When one asks these trans activists what their intersex disorders are, they usually don’t specify. And if they do give you their condition, when you analyze them, you find out that they hardly match up to diagnostic scrutiny. Unfortunately, this seems to be the theme with these activists, and they have the loudest voices in the world of intersex rights. Some notable examples of TRA intersex activists include:
Hida Viloria- American “Latinx” lesbian who grew up with homophobic parents. Has tried to justify her androgynous appearance and escape the gay label by claiming to be intersex and non-binary. Says that she was diagnosed with simple virilizing congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH is the most common cause of ambiguous genitalia in XX individuals) because she has a “large clitoris”. She doesn’t hold up to diagnostic scrutiny as she doesn’t have a deep voice and male-patterned hair growth (Link to a diagnosed case, Archive). Says that she wasn’t worked on because her father wouldn’t allow it as he was a doctor who didn’t believe intersex genitalia didn’t need surgery as it is a “benign defect”. Wrote a book titled "Born Both", about her life as "both sexes".
Hida's numerous appearances
Hida's book
Hida on Oprah
Main website: https://hidaviloria.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hidaviloria/?hl=en
Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/HidaViloria
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@hidaviloria4142
Del LaGrace Volcano- American photographer who identifies as non-binary and intersex. Hasn’t specified her condition, except that at puberty, “one breast grew and the other didn’t”. Takes photos about the LGBT community and “queering gender”. Lives in Sweden and is married to a woman who also identifies as non-binary. Her wife gave birth to two donor-conceived sons who they have raised without gender.
Del's many attires.
Del created a series called InterMe (Archive), which shines the spotlight on queer, intersex bodies, including her own. She took a nude photo to show her intersex body.
Del's sons being raised without gender
Main website: https://www.dellagracevolcano.se/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dellagracevolcano/?hl=en
Jennifer "Pidgeon" Pagonis- American "Latinx" intersex activist who claims she was born with partial androgen insensitivity syndrome. Says that she had her genitals fixed and her gonads removed. Unlike many TRAs, she could be a diagnosed case. But she still buys into gender ideology, and she has a master's in gender studies and (sure enough) identifies as non-binary. Pagonis has created content for leftist sites such as Buzzfeed and Everyday Feminism, and appeared on National Geographic's January 2017 article about gender.
Pidgeon is on the far left
Pidgeon on Buzzfeed
Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/Pidgejen
Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/100045249726641/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pidgeon/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@pidgepagonis
Everyday Feminism: https://everydayfeminism.com/author/pidgeonp/
Retrospective diagnoses:
TRA intersex activists love to diagnose the past, especially notable figures throughout history. One of the notable cases of a historical figure getting a retrospective diagnosis is Casimir Pulaski, the Polish war general who saved George Washington during the Revolutionary War (Archive). When the grave supposedly containing Pulaski's body was exhumed, an obvious female skeleton was found inside (there are doubts that the skeleton is even his). This made the forensic scientists believe that Casimir was a genetic female with congenital adrenal hyperplasia who was raised male. A genetics test between the skeleton and Casimir's grand-niece using mitochondrial DNA confirmed that the two were related. The news of the confirmation caught on with many leftist outlets, and the Smithsonian Channel made a documentary about whether or not he was intersex. Many people, including Poles and the Polish diaspora (who look up to Pulaski as a cultural hero), disagree with the theory that Casimir was an intersex XX male, and even believe that a woman's body was put inside the grave where his headstone was.
Organizations:
-The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA), the first organization which advocated for intersex rights, was founded in 1993. It has its share of TRAs as well, including Jim Sinclair, a self-diagnosed autistic who claims to be raised female but is “proudly neuter, both physically and socially” (Sinclair also wrote an essay to autism parents to not “mourn for their children” and proposed saying “autistic person” instead of “person with autism”). The organization closed in 2008.
-InterACT is an organization which was founded in 2006 which also advocates for intersex rights. Much like ISNA, it has the same problem of TRAs having the loudest voices.
Intersectional activism:
-Pidgeon Pagonis wrote an article for Everyday Feminism about intersex people causing anti-black racism (Archive). She brought up the M.C. vs. Aaronson case, where a black child with ovotesticular disorder and ambiguous genitalia was given unconsensual surgeries and assigned the female sex as an infant (M.C. was later adopted by a Jewish family, who have raised him male after he showed masculine behaviors as a toddler). M.C.’s birth mother consented that the child have the surgeries (Archive), but Pidgeon still framed it as a “racist crime”.
-All TRA intersex activists are against gender assignment surgeries on intersex infants, because “it’s a violation of human rights” or “they might not identify as the sex they were assigned at birth”. However, they are fine with or even encourage gender nonconforming children to be transitioned. When confronted by this, they will respond by saying “Babies can’t talk but kids can, so kids are old enough to consent to transitioning.”
Pop science:
-The most common myth about intersex statistics is that intersex people make up 1.7% of the total population, or are "as common as redheads". These numbers are inflated, as they include people with late-onset adrenal hyperplasia (which is not an intersex disorder as the patients don't have ambiguous genitalia). The person who came up with the intersex statistics is Anne Fausto-Sterling, a professor of biology and gender studies at Brown University, who also proposed that there are 5 sexes: male, female, male pseudohermaphrodite, female pseudohermaphrodite, and true hermaphrodite (or ovotesticular disorder). In reality, if you exclude the LOAH cases, intersex people make up only 0.2% of the total population. This is explained by Leonard Sax, a psychologist and physician who wrote an essay establishing the commonality of intersex conditions (Archive).
Ignoring health problems:
It is rare that TRAs will mention the health problems that intersex patients face.
They never talk about the infertility issues, or the predisposition to cancer that abnormal gonads (such as streak gonads) face. Sometimes they will talk about the salt wasting of patients with CAH, but that is it.
Websites:
Intersex Society of North America
InterACT
The whole belief that intersex=in-between body has been around since the time of Ancient Greece, where the first gender confirmation surgeries were performed (Archive). In the 1920’s genital surgeries for intersex patients became the main treatment for such disorders, and in the decades that followed many doctors performed or recommended intersex surgeries. This included the likes of John Money, a sexologist who is best known for the failed John/Joan experiment. Many intersex infants were brought up female as it was easier to create a vagina instead of a penis (the term “assigned male/female at birth” comes from intersex gender assignments).
It wasn’t until the 1990’s when intersex patients spoke up about their experiences with the surgeries and post-op complications. They founded advocacy groups and teamed up with medical associations to address intersex surgeries and how to properly manage intersex conditions. The John/Joan case was made public and revealed to be a failure. Intersex activists demanded an end to gender-assigning surgeries on intersex infants.
In the decades since intersex activists have spoken out about issues such as nonconsensual surgeries and the banning of women with intersex disorders in sports. While there are intersex activists who are actually diagnosed with intersex disorders, most intersex activists are trans and nonbinary activists claiming to be intersex so that it justifies their gender identities. They don’t take into consideration the health problems that come along with intersex disorders and the confusion that parents of such children face when learning that their child is intersex.
Mainstream science publications such as Scientific American have listened to the trans activists invested in intersex issues and have given them the an even louder voice, as can be seen in this chart from their September 2017 issue.
When one asks these trans activists what their intersex disorders are, they usually don’t specify. And if they do give you their condition, when you analyze them, you find out that they hardly match up to diagnostic scrutiny. Unfortunately, this seems to be the theme with these activists, and they have the loudest voices in the world of intersex rights. Some notable examples of TRA intersex activists include:
Hida Viloria- American “Latinx” lesbian who grew up with homophobic parents. Has tried to justify her androgynous appearance and escape the gay label by claiming to be intersex and non-binary. Says that she was diagnosed with simple virilizing congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH is the most common cause of ambiguous genitalia in XX individuals) because she has a “large clitoris”. She doesn’t hold up to diagnostic scrutiny as she doesn’t have a deep voice and male-patterned hair growth (Link to a diagnosed case, Archive). Says that she wasn’t worked on because her father wouldn’t allow it as he was a doctor who didn’t believe intersex genitalia didn’t need surgery as it is a “benign defect”. Wrote a book titled "Born Both", about her life as "both sexes".
Hida's numerous appearances
Hida's book
Main website: https://hidaviloria.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hidaviloria/?hl=en
Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/HidaViloria
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@hidaviloria4142
Del LaGrace Volcano- American photographer who identifies as non-binary and intersex. Hasn’t specified her condition, except that at puberty, “one breast grew and the other didn’t”. Takes photos about the LGBT community and “queering gender”. Lives in Sweden and is married to a woman who also identifies as non-binary. Her wife gave birth to two donor-conceived sons who they have raised without gender.
Del's many attires.
Del created a series called InterMe (Archive), which shines the spotlight on queer, intersex bodies, including her own. She took a nude photo to show her intersex body.
Main website: https://www.dellagracevolcano.se/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dellagracevolcano/?hl=en
Jennifer "Pidgeon" Pagonis- American "Latinx" intersex activist who claims she was born with partial androgen insensitivity syndrome. Says that she had her genitals fixed and her gonads removed. Unlike many TRAs, she could be a diagnosed case. But she still buys into gender ideology, and she has a master's in gender studies and (sure enough) identifies as non-binary. Pagonis has created content for leftist sites such as Buzzfeed and Everyday Feminism, and appeared on National Geographic's January 2017 article about gender.
Pidgeon is on the far left
Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/Pidgejen
Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/100045249726641/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pidgeon/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@pidgepagonis
Everyday Feminism: https://everydayfeminism.com/author/pidgeonp/
Retrospective diagnoses:
TRA intersex activists love to diagnose the past, especially notable figures throughout history. One of the notable cases of a historical figure getting a retrospective diagnosis is Casimir Pulaski, the Polish war general who saved George Washington during the Revolutionary War (Archive). When the grave supposedly containing Pulaski's body was exhumed, an obvious female skeleton was found inside (there are doubts that the skeleton is even his). This made the forensic scientists believe that Casimir was a genetic female with congenital adrenal hyperplasia who was raised male. A genetics test between the skeleton and Casimir's grand-niece using mitochondrial DNA confirmed that the two were related. The news of the confirmation caught on with many leftist outlets, and the Smithsonian Channel made a documentary about whether or not he was intersex. Many people, including Poles and the Polish diaspora (who look up to Pulaski as a cultural hero), disagree with the theory that Casimir was an intersex XX male, and even believe that a woman's body was put inside the grave where his headstone was.
Organizations:
-The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA), the first organization which advocated for intersex rights, was founded in 1993. It has its share of TRAs as well, including Jim Sinclair, a self-diagnosed autistic who claims to be raised female but is “proudly neuter, both physically and socially” (Sinclair also wrote an essay to autism parents to not “mourn for their children” and proposed saying “autistic person” instead of “person with autism”). The organization closed in 2008.
-InterACT is an organization which was founded in 2006 which also advocates for intersex rights. Much like ISNA, it has the same problem of TRAs having the loudest voices.
Intersectional activism:
-Pidgeon Pagonis wrote an article for Everyday Feminism about intersex people causing anti-black racism (Archive). She brought up the M.C. vs. Aaronson case, where a black child with ovotesticular disorder and ambiguous genitalia was given unconsensual surgeries and assigned the female sex as an infant (M.C. was later adopted by a Jewish family, who have raised him male after he showed masculine behaviors as a toddler). M.C.’s birth mother consented that the child have the surgeries (Archive), but Pidgeon still framed it as a “racist crime”.
-All TRA intersex activists are against gender assignment surgeries on intersex infants, because “it’s a violation of human rights” or “they might not identify as the sex they were assigned at birth”. However, they are fine with or even encourage gender nonconforming children to be transitioned. When confronted by this, they will respond by saying “Babies can’t talk but kids can, so kids are old enough to consent to transitioning.”
Pop science:
-The most common myth about intersex statistics is that intersex people make up 1.7% of the total population, or are "as common as redheads". These numbers are inflated, as they include people with late-onset adrenal hyperplasia (which is not an intersex disorder as the patients don't have ambiguous genitalia). The person who came up with the intersex statistics is Anne Fausto-Sterling, a professor of biology and gender studies at Brown University, who also proposed that there are 5 sexes: male, female, male pseudohermaphrodite, female pseudohermaphrodite, and true hermaphrodite (or ovotesticular disorder). In reality, if you exclude the LOAH cases, intersex people make up only 0.2% of the total population. This is explained by Leonard Sax, a psychologist and physician who wrote an essay establishing the commonality of intersex conditions (Archive).
Ignoring health problems:
It is rare that TRAs will mention the health problems that intersex patients face.
They never talk about the infertility issues, or the predisposition to cancer that abnormal gonads (such as streak gonads) face. Sometimes they will talk about the salt wasting of patients with CAH, but that is it.
Websites:
Intersex Society of North America
InterACT
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