While researching around about Intersex people I found an interesting point that Wikipedia cites from Julius Kaggwa, a prominent intersex and transgender activist and executive director of intersex support organization: Support Initiative for People with atypical sex Development (SIPD), stating that while the gay community "offers us a place of relative safety, it is also oblivious to our specific needs". Despite being considered a part of the LGBTQIA+ community, an intersex person can still be cisgendered and heterosexual and within the community there is sometimes an assumption that trans protections also apply intersex people but this isn't necessarily the case because it is more a matter of sex than gender. I wasn't fully aware what "intersex" even meant before reading this but now that I have a better understanding I can see why that group, even amongst the LGBTQIA+ community, has a unique struggle for awareness and rights even amongst allies.
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Very good point, Ray!
That is sort of what I was trying to get at when I asked the class how you all were dealing with the info that there are five sexes (or that sex *AND* gender) can be considered socially constructed. Have you tried having conversations with other people not in the class about this information? What is their recation?
I really like your point, Ray!
Also, I am with you on that I hadn't learned about 'intersex' prior to this class. And it is fascinating to see that this group of people don't really fit into one specific category. This makes me wonder why we still have categories that are supposed to help classify people, yet some don't identify with a specific one?
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