I'd be reluctant to use different "species" because that could be quite literally de-humanizing.
I think the core issue is defining what constitutes a person. As Kailana was including, I think it boils down to two major issues:
1) Others have taken it upon themselves to decide things for us, and as a result have raped us over and over again via the medical institutions. Part of the "reason" is that they don't trust us to make decisions for ourselves, or they need to simplify our status to make us easier to label. Only a small fraction of medical procedures on intersexuals are medically needed.
2) And that leads to the second issue - refusal of people to recognize gender as being more than binary. Most atrocities against us have been done with the kindest of intentions, in order to 'help us fit in', 'look normal', when, in fact, we don't fit in!
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