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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 4 fun1 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 4 fun -  (6 children)

I find ISNA does a good job explaining it:

https://isna.org/faq/what_is_intersex/

[–]ColoredTwiceIntersex female, medical malpractice victim, lesbian 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Wtf is that link?

with genitals that seem to be in-between the usual male and female types—for example, a girl may be born with a noticeably large clitoris

The hell? How is it "in-between"?

My enlargened clitoris is just a big clitoris, it is in no way in between - it is just clitoris that is bigger than usual. That's it.

It can't ejaculate, I can't pee through it, it functions 100% as any other clitoris in any other female. The only difference is size.

or a boy may be born with a notably small penis

That is not intersex condition, by the way. And micropenis mostly showing up later in life - during puberty or later, not at birth.

Which variations of sexual anatomy count as intersex? In practice, different people have different answers to that question.

No? It is very distinct cases and it is important to know them for healthcare issues, as most conditions will have a lot of complications and some (like mine) are deadly if not being treated correctly.

Intersex is a socially constructed category that reflects real biological variation. To better explain this, we can liken the sex spectrum to the color spectrum

Are they are telling I am less female or what do they mean by "spectrum"? Like there "less red goess to yellow" there "less female goes male"? That is very dehumanizing and that is what was leading to IGM before. After scientists found that intersex people are ALWAYS male or female and that it is pretty easy to find out - IGM stopped in most cases, as now everyone knows that we are just same female as any other female (or same male as any other male) and that we don't need "fixing". And knowing biological sex started saving lives of people like myself - because boys and girls need different treatment and if it not received in first hours after birth - kid will either die or become heavily disabled for the rest of the life. And later in life we need different treatment and we have different complications. Other intersex conditions are most often are sex-specific and happening ONLY in females or ONLY in males.

So-called “sex” chromosomes can vary quite a bit, too.

Not very much, in 99.998% they are correctly showing sex. And genitals+chromosomes in 99.982% are showing sex correctly. So we are working with numbers like 0.002% and 0.018% of population.

But in human cultures, sex categories get simplified into male, female, and sometimes intersex, in order to simplify social interactions, express what we know and feel, and maintain order.

Wrong, it is done not for culture wise purposes or for social interractions, but for healthcare and correct treatment. And it is important - again, I'd be dead if in first few hours they would not do scanse to see if I am female or male. And this knowledge was needed not for "social purposes".

Also, are they saying that man with smaller penis is less man? Lmao.

So nature doesn’t decide where the category of “male” ends and the category of “intersex” begins, or where the category of “intersex” ends and the category of “female” begins.

So yeah, they see me as "less female". And how to become "full female"? I don't want to be lesser. And no one want - and it WHAT leads to IGM among youth, it what leads to big distress among intersex youth. THIS is VERY harmful. This site is very harmful towards intersex people, why it even have "intersex" in their name?

Some think you have to have “ambiguous genitalia” to count as intersex, even if your inside is mostly of one sex and your outside is mostly of anothe

If it is so - then only around 0.012% or so are intersex.

Some think your brain has to be exposed to an unusual mix of hormones prenatally to count as intersex

Then around 15-20% of population are intersex, mostly women with PCOS and women or men with LOAH (LOCAH).

unless your brain experienced atypical development

What does this mean? This happens almost never and this happens almost always not to intersex people, wtf.

Total number of people whose bodies differ from standard male or female one in 100 births

How they got this number? It is around 0.2%, a bit less by majority of studies.

If you add all their numbers, there will be even less than 0.2%

I guess it is because they included "Late onset adrenal hyperplasia (LOAH) one in 66 individuals" - which is not intersex condition and people with it are 100% typical males or females, and this condition is appearing only late in life, and just affecting slightly hormonal levels and mostly it is about adrenal glands not working properly. If LOAH is considered intersex - then PCOS should be too. Then intersex will be like 1/10 or 1/5 of population, lol.

It is VERY dangerous site to intersex youth.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 6 fun1 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 6 fun -  (4 children)

Or maybe you’re just wrong

[–]ColoredTwiceIntersex female, medical malpractice victim, lesbian 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Wrong? Sorry, but I lived through this.

And if I am wrong - then how to become full female? Why am I less female? How my bigger clit is "more male" if it works 100% as clit and 0% as penis? How is it helpful to say to kids they are less female and how it will stop IGM, when it was THE reason of IGM?

And where exactly I am wrong? I am certain in everything I said - it is either lived experiense or medical fact.

I am rarely meeting so rude and unempathetic people, lol.

[–]ZveroboyAlinaIs clownfish a clown or a fish? 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Classic "Sweetie, you just lived it wrong, let me endosplain you your own condition" I've seen hundred times from intersexphobes. I am so sorry for all this BS that people with DSD are living through because of this ideology.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 6 fun1 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 6 fun -  (1 child)

It isn’t more male. Maleness and femaleness don’t exist, just as races don’t exist. You just have a certain level of testosterone or melanin. Also get your facts straight, IGM was about bodily normativity not an inability to classify people correctly

[–]ColoredTwiceIntersex female, medical malpractice victim, lesbian 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It was because of inability to classify people correctly or thinking that sex is a spectrum and people can be more or less.

If "maleness and femaleness" don't exist, then what that spectrum is at all? It makes no sense then. And how we can reproduce if there no males or females and we can't say who is who? And why 40 very rare conditions which are affecting very small percentage of people matters in this question at all?