intersex people are just as fucked over as trans people are when transphobia comes into play, and failing to address this is actively harming our community. when we only pretend that there is a social problem with using binary terminology and not an erasure of an entire group of people, of an identity, of a status, is a failure. when we say "silly transphobes! no one is mutilating babies' genitals" when intersex babies are constantly having their genitals surgically modified without their consent is a failure. when we don't acknowledge there are ways to being trans outside of AFAB/AMAB -> other gender, that is a failure. when we believe AFAB ="person who primarily produces estrogen and has ovaries" and AMAB = "person who primarily produces testosterone and has testies" that is a failure.
intersex people are not puppets we get to use as our mouth piece. intersex people are not a bullet point in a list of arguments against transphobes. they are part of our community, their rights are our rights, and we need to be fighting next to them. if your transgender activism doesn't include intersex people, you will inevitably serve to the same binary we are trying to deconstruct.
Them: "Omg, dumb transphobes, no one is forcing children to take hormones! 🙄"
Me, an intersex individual who was coercively forced into HRT as a teenager: 🤨 ummm... do I just not fucking exist or something?
