Reminder that every TERF supports mutilation of intersex children, it is inherent to their ideology.
if it were inherent to the ideology would you need to remind everyone?
I need to remind people that intersex people exist all the time. because we are being violently erased. Perisex people forget about our issues and are unaware of the way bigoted ideology affects us differently from how it affects perisex trans people. This isn't the point you think it is.
1. your original post was intended to inform people that TERFs believe in gential mutiliation of intersex people, which
2. isn’t even true. radfems oppose FGM, cosmetic surgeries, the healthcare complex as a whole and its maltreatment of women. it is a fundamental part of the ideology to reject unnecessary medical procedures aimed at abusing us. so that leads me back to
3. if it were an inherent part of radical feminism/TERFs whatever you want call it, you would actually see evidence of it instead of needing to make a reminder for people to believe that bullshit.
It's evident to me because I am part of the group being targeted. My post is for the people blind to our suffering because they do not experience it themselves. The sex binary is enforced with violence. People like me are the primary target of it. You don't see us because patriarchal cisnormative society had deemed us unacceptable and mutilates us into fitting.
You literally could not argue "sex is binary" without leaning on enforcement of it through violence against intersex people, committed to uphold the patriarchy, by the way. Fuck you. Fuck you and everyone like you. The basis of your ideology RELIES on my subjugation. Ghoul. You're so far removed from intersex suffering that you genuinely believe you don't support it. But you do. And you always will. Voices like yours should be stamped out, intolerance should never be tolerated, as they say. You are against my existence so I'm against yours.
Saying that "sex is binary" is not tantamount to "the sex binary should be enforced with igm". When a radfem says "all intersex people are female or male", she doesn't mean "they should be operated on to become that" she means "even if someone is born intersex they are still female or male anyway based on their gonads." Radfems are against igm. They don't think that igm would make someone female or male bc they would think that person was already female or male anyway.
The basis of radfem ideology doesn't include igm at all. That's absurd. It doesn't involve denying the existence of intersex people either.
Oh my fucking God shut the fuck up you obviously know nothing about us.
You are literally denying the existence of intersex people by calling us disordered males & females. That is what you are doing in your response. Like right fucking now. There are intersex people without gonads. There are intersex people with ovotestes. There are intersex people who produce no gametes, like me. What now? Are we going off what's in my pants then? Going to pull out the phall-o-meter to figure out what my 'real' sex is? Oh but what about my uterus? What about my chromosomes?
Doesn't the act of going through all this fucking effort to categorize us into your "natural immutable binary" prove that the binary is not natural nor immutable?
There is no possible definition of male & female based on anatomy alone that will include every intersex person. None. You cannot define woman without excluding a cisgender intersex woman. It's impossible.
I feel like a lot of the people replying to you are missing an important point. It doesn't matter if they individually support or don't support these "corrective" procedures. Their ideology props up a system that enforces the practice.
> when a radfem says "all intersex people are male or female" she doesn't mean "they should be operated on to become that"
Quite apart from the fact that the statement inherently denies the validity and identity of intersex people.
What she means doesn't matter one jot. In practical terms there is no difference. The system sees them as the same thing. Saying the former empowers the system to enforce it violently via the latter.
The one follows from the other.
And as was already rightly pointed out by another reply, these people pay lip service to intersex acceptance but can't handle the consequences.
[Image ID: set of tumblr tags saying "#radfems are against igm just like they are against fgm and circumcision bc they are against mutilating their child's genitals. #saying "if someone was born with balls they are male but if they are born with ovaries they are female" is not the same as supporting igm #when they say that they are only discussion definitions of words they are not saying u should treat babies differently due to them being bo #intersex."]
taken from crazyalien87's tags
really just goes to show these radfems are ALWAYS talking out of their ass and know absolutely nothing about intersex people because even this arbitrary dichotomy given has exceptions. what about ovotestes? streaked gonads? what if they have neither? what if they have internal testes where the ovaries should be? what about significantly smaller gonads than there should be? also, really? would you really consider that to be truly male and female? even if it's balls with a vagina or a penis with a uterus? would you really?
seriously, just even saying dumb shit like this shows radfems will never go out of their way to learn what intersex really is, because the second they do it entirely shatters their false dichotomy and worldview. a bunch of bioessentialist fascists is what they are
I have an ovoteste and also had an ovary (that's since been removed). I don't have a uterus and I do have a penis. But I also have XX chromosomes and was born with a labia (that was also removed). Sperm count tests haven't found any so it's likely that I don't produce any gametes, but even if I did they'd likely have structural deformities that wouldn't allow me to be fertile (assuming my chromosomes themselves would allow fertility).
TERFs cannot sort me into a binary without enacting violence on me. They like to fall onto anatomy, but I was born with ambiguous genitals. So they resort to gametes, but I don't produce any. Then they rely on gonads, but I'm sitting here with an ovoteste. What does that make me? Where gonads fail, they sort by chromosomes as a last resort. What does that make XO people? XXY? People with 46,XX/46,XY chimerism?
Is the "one true intersex" someone who has 46,XX/46,XY with ovotestes and two fully functioning reproductive systems (something impossible in humans)? Is that the only way TERFs will acknowledge our existence?
No. They'll still refer to us as "someone with a DSD"—it's just that they can't sort that ONE specific person into their false binary. It won't stop them from trying.
Their ideology, bioessentialist as it is, REQUIRES us to be sorted into categories that results in our systemic abuse to fit them. To them, we'll always be "disordered" males or "disordered" females, and therefore require correcting. It doesn't matter if an individual TERF doesn't think we should be mutilated—their words are ashes in their mouths when the very ideology they support REQUIRES our mutilation to exist.