lets be clear "baeddel" has been used to refer exclusively to transfems in the last fucking... four centuries, but also people confidently asserting that it was Actually For Intersexes Back Then Not Trans People are speaking with way too much fucking confidence for a word we have, like, four historical uses of.
like wikipedia right now says its, like, up in the air if it means gnc people or intersex people or (gasp) both! like i absolutely understand that intersex conditions have been historically erased and need a seat on the table in these discussions, butttt i think when you declare that this word (99.99% chance you have not heard of it outside of transfeminist discouse) is Definitely An Intersex Slur That The Trannies Appropriated, it betrays a certain perspective on transmisogyny and the epistemic authority of transfems
actually, let me not beat around the bush.
to my understanding, part of the original reason the word "baeddel" was reclaimed (along with it being an umbrella term) was to make a statement "transfeminized people were always here, and we have been hated for longer than modern english existed." as i said earlier, i do think its fair to point out that the word may have also been used for intersexism, but to state that it is only an intersexist slur is to deny the historicity of both transfeminity and transmisogyny.
we've all seen capital b Bigots claim that trans people are some kind of new modern trend; know that the thought leaders who are spreading this idea that baeddel was strictly intersexist believe the same thing. because that is how you come to that conclusion; because you believe that the social and personal phenomenon we call being transgender did not exist in medieval times to be bigoted against.
the same goes for the word "hermaphrodite" imo, since it's use in ancient Greece was very much in line with how baeddel was used
