I do really need y'all to get it through your heads that transvestigation is also inherently intersexist, because it’s grounded in the idea that sex is a binary and there is no natural sex variation in human bodies.
I’m tired of seeing intersex people get told that they only get affected by these things on “accident” and that it’s not “really” intersexism because “it’s transphobia.” I’m tired of intersex people being told that we aren’t affected by things that we are often the primary targets of.
It is intersexism. It is transphobia. It is racism. These things work together to create hostile environments for anyone who doesn’t fit the bigoted idea of what people are “supposed” to look like.
Quit acting like intersex people are only affected by these things on accident when we are direct targets. Quit acting like intersex people are some unknown mythical creature that medical science has never heard of, when the truth is that if you haven’t heard of us, it’s because we have been actively erased and abused into silence.
Bigots don’t stop harassing us when they find out we’re intersex. They don’t accept us. They don’t think we’re natural or normal. They think we’re freaks. They think we should be forcibly operated on to make us “normal.” They kill us, they assault us, they want us to stop being born at all.
The idea that transphobic bigots are okay with intersex people because we’re born this way is false, and people have got to quit pretending that transphobia is the only factor at play.