GC: How to know the sex of an intersex person? Are intersex people not 100% male or female?

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[–]IWoreWhat 3 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

You haven't answered my previous questions: Are CAIS male or female? Are they male because they have male chromosomes? Or are they female because they have a female phenotype? Which one would be true?

the conflict between their sex chromosomes and phenotype

Is sex determined by chromosomes or phenotype? Intersex people with CAIS are chromosomically male and phenotypically female. Are they male and female at the same time then? If they are just one of the two sexes, then should we go with chromosomes or phenotype?

Depending on the answer, I think your "morality" differs from mine. To you, people with disabilities never do anything bad. If someone with a disability says they are able-bodied, it's automatically not a lie and it's a good thing to do.

But I think it's a lie and it's deception. If sex is determined by phenotype, then CAIS are female, and not male no matter what their chromosomes are, and if they tell me they are male, that would be a lie.

If sex is determined by chromosomes, then CAIS are male, and not female, and if they tell me they are female, that would be a lie.

And by "everyone" you really mean you, and that you take it as a given that if you're really, really curious to know something about others, then none them have any right whatsoever not to divulge to you the information about themselves that you desire to know when you stamp your foot and demand they come clean and cough it up.

They want to feel comfortable right? Why should I feel uncomfortable when they say they are something they aren't (a lie) just because they feel comfortable that way?

[–]MarkTwainiac 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why are you still asking me? Go ask on sites for people with CAIS. They're not hard to find.

Depending on the answer, I think your "morality" differs from mine. To you, people with disabilities never do anything bad.

I never said anything to lead anyone to think I believe "people with disabilities never do anything bad." What tosh.

Yes, we definitely do have a different view of morality. You seem to think you are the only person whose rights matter. You believe your right to satisfy your curiosity about other people's inherited, innate medical conditions by forcing them them to divulge whenever you, a total stranger, rock up and demand they do so will always trump the right of people with those conditions to tell you to get lost, that they will be the ones to decide with whom to share said info - and you as a total stranger have some nerve to think you have the right to order other people around.

You sound like those people who go up to pregnant women encountered in public who are total strangers, put their hands on the women's bellies and ask, What are you having? A boy or a girl? And if the poor women are so flummoxed that they actually answer before they have enough time to register how appallingly inappropriate the question is, then proceed to ask if the moms-to-be are going to breastfeed, plan to give birth vaginally or by C section, whether they want an unmedicated "natural" birth or are open to using drugs, will allow an episiotomy, plan to use a mirror to watch the baby come out, intend to circumcise the child if it's a boy, will use cloth or disposal diapers, and whether they've considered Montessori or Waldorf schools or plan to homeschool... LOL.