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Dana
Please go back and read my post again. It is clear that you read a great deal into it that was not there.
No way do I either say, or even secretly believe, that IS transitioners are "all just trans" ......... or anything even remotely like that. I am not "invalidating" IS people who change sex/gender. Neither do I think that trans people are in any way less "valid" than IS people.
I don't know what this silly statement of yours is about ... "laying claim to being intersex and yet you are not sure of that", ... but I think possibly it smacks of a certain assumption other than what you intended.
I have no doubt at all that I am intersex. I also have no doubt, that having an intersex diagnosis is not a point of personal validation, and it confers no status other than 'having an intersex condition'.
This is basically what 'I am' saying.
1. It is not about gender identity.
2. It is not about gender roles within the binary.
3. It is not about unconscious presumptions of "validity" within some sort of hierarchy of status.
I take issue with anybody, intersex or not, who insists upon making this place about such things, because it poisons the well, and it obscures issues of true relevance. One may endlessly 'hash out', 'hash in' and rehash such issues to no point, on any of the many trans forums. Just don't bring that crap here!
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