You are literally trying to erase people with ovotesticular syndrome from the face of the earth. For what purpose? Because there are narcissists and psychopaths who use their gender ideology as a cover for their misogyny?
What exactly are you trying to accomplish by spreading this binary ideology? Have you ever thought how you would feel to be told that you do not exist in this world?
You're citing Wikipedia and telling me that I'm giving bad information? You don't undersand what biological sex is. It is a reproductive strategy, and in human beings it is binary. One egg combines with 1 sperm to create a new human being. Two gametes, not three, four, five, etc. Binary means composed of or involving two things.
If you define hermaphroditism as having ovarian and testicular tissues in the same body, your definition is correct, but there has never been a case of a human being capable of contributing both an egg and sperm to the reproductive process. This is what people mean when they say true hermaphroditism does not exist in human beings, unlike some animals that have functional male and female parts simultaneously. There are two gametes, and those gametes come from one male and one female. Two distinct bodies. Females contribute the eggs, and males contribute the sperm. Ovotesticular syndrome is a disorder, and the fact that the vast majority of people with this syndrome are infertile shows that it is a disease. This is true of all DSDs. They are diseases of sexual development. That means the normal developmental process went wrong. The exceptions prove the rule, and the rule is binary sex.
Would you argue that chromosomes in human beings don't come in pairs because some people have Down's Syndrome?
None of this really matters in this argument because the real objective is to create smoke and mirrors around one of the most well-established facts in science. In most cases, people without DSDs are appropriating ovotesticular disorder, the rarest DSD, in order to claim that their claims to be both sexes, the wrong sex, or neither sex are true.
The rule does not erase the existence of exceptions. And exceptions should not be treated as "abnormality." DSD is not "diseases" of sexual development. It is "differences" of sexual development. We need to stop pathologizing DSD. People with DSD are just different from us. They don't deserve to be dehumanized.
The real objective is to create smoke and mirrors? Whose real objectives? People without DSD who are appropriating DSD? Why should THEY be the focus of discussion about DSD?
How many trans people think cis gender people are morally inferior dupes of socialization? Do you have any mass survey data? Or are you choosing to listen to only the most vocal and extreme elements because their outrageous opinions justify your transphobia?
Do you think this person looks down on cis women as morally inferior dupes of socialization?
Well, I read a lot of queer theory published in academic journals and interact with extreme social constructionists. I know their worldviews. I regularly hear people with advanced degrees argue that nearly all sex-related behaviors are due to socialization and accuse anybody who thinks that biological sex is related to behavior as being an essentialist. I've read Judith Butler's Gender Trouble cover-to-cover twice. I've read Gayle Rubin's Thinking Sex several times, lots of Foucault, Michael Warner, David Halperin, etc. In sociology, I've read West & Zimmerman's Doing Gender. I could go on and on. I could show you the several bookshelves full of scholarshp that inform my opinion on this topic. In short, I don't need to be educated by you.
There is nothing transphobic about saying sex is binary. In fact, the very concept of trans relies on the reality of biological sex, as does being gay or lesbian. You're conflating people who have transitioned or identify as trans with postmodern gender ideology. They are not one and the same. The ideology is offensive because it assumes that people who do not want to occupy a novel "gender" category or pharmaceutically alter their bodies actively endorse the stereotypes associated with their biological sex.
Why are you so obsessed with queer theory? Do you think trans people exist as "case studies" of queer theory? Do you think trans people claim their identity to "prove" queer theory? Do they agree with queer theory? Do they know what queer theory is? Where are the survey data I can access to find answers to those questions?
And I am not "conflating people who have transitioned or identify as trans with postmodern gender ideology" because I could not care less about postmodern gender ideology. That's none of my business. It seems you are the one who cannot think about postmodern gender ideology whenever trans people are mentioned in any way or shape.
Do you really have to insult, humiliate, and dehumanize trans people's identity so that you could score an ideological point against postmodern gender ideology? Those people are real human beings with real feelings and life of their own. Yeah, some of them are insufferable narcissists (Veronica Iv... never mind). But there are also many insufferable narcissists among cis people. Trans people do not deserve to be judged by the worst elements among them.
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