I mean I'm supposedly represented in that "rich history" as an intersex person and I just see your urgh and raise you a double urgh!And they get another week…. Urgh!
What's the point? Most of it is inventing identities for deceased individuals and conflating modern identities with historic practices like cross dressing or gender non-conforming behaviour. We don't know that if woman who wore male clothes wasn't avoiding rape, escaping marriage, undertaking a career closed to her as a woman but these numpties will assume she was trans or NB. I'm so sick and tired of historians writing crap about women like Joan of Arc or Elizabeth I and saying they were probably intersex. No!
Most intersex people's experience of our "rich history" was facing persecution or murder for being "unnatural" and as we're born with mixed characteristics and are not choosing to play with concepts of sex and gender roles, we have fuck all to do with trans identified people and just suffered by pure chance of birth. I would have escaped attention since my intersex variation is not observable but I don't want to celebrate the history of my community since it mainly involves visibly intersex people being murdered in infancy, childhood and adolescence - woo hoo! Let's fly some fucking flags to celebrate terrified kids being killed.
Apologies for the rant. I'm just so sick of intersex people being manipulated and dragged into pure bullshit that has nothing to do with the vast majority of us, who just want to quietly live life as the sex we were assigned at birth and not run around waving an ugly flag and trying to get attention.
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Have you ever had a response? One green council candidate sent me a reply saying he doesn't engage in transphobic discussions and believes "a woman is a human who says she's a woman." Nobody else has ever answered me, although the Labour PPC did say she'd love to discuss it and when I said I'm at home 24/7 so let me know when, I never heard back.Just had a flyer through my door from the local Labour candidate. Just emailed her to ask if she knows what a woman is…..
Which is the same question I plan on asking any of the candidates.
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