Writing in response to the discussion on the Tranny Sideshow thread about troons trying to expand the definition of Intersex to include PCOS.
Has anyone gone into detail with how ridiculous this is? My wife has PCOS. It's not uncommon as far as I know. But her elevated level of testosterone — even slightly — doesn't make her one bit less bit feminine in phenotypical ways. Other than she does have to pluck very thin hairs on her face.
She's had to deal with debilitating cramps, cysts, and a danger of an ectopic pregnancy.
She also feels her very religious childhood filled her with terror about anything involving sex or her body, and she found it difficult to even have sex. Which is yet another typical way in which women might fear the onset of sexuality and feel disassociated from their bodies. In the first year we were together, we weren't really able to have sex. To the point where she'd be frustrated, trying to get me in there, and it was just plain Closed For Business much of the time.
Years on, she's had procedures, and we're pretty normal. Because of the cysts, she's since had to be on a continual low-dose of Mifepristone, all of which contributes to her being effectively unable to have children.
All this to say I've watched with horror all this very incredibly (deliberately) sloppy meme that PCOS is some kind of "intersex" condition as opposed to an awful reality of an otherwise normal body. The cavalier way they mess with HRT and their endocrine system under this false knowledge set off the alarm in my head pretty early.
