it's not intersexist to acknowledge that intersexness can result from a health condition or be related to one. intersex is an umbrella term for a variety of experiences, including ones involving disability, and it's okay and important to admit that. we don't gain anything by throwing intersex people who experience complications from their variation/related condition under the bus.
but even beyond that, we don't have to separate ourselves from disability in order to prove we deserve human rights. our variations being linked to chronic illness wouldn't mean that all the medical abuse towards us is founded. disabled and intersex people all have a right to bodily autonomy and proper healthcare that needs to be upheld.
even if our sex nonconformity were somehow universally an illness, intersex and disabled people have a right to exist. just as much as abled and dyadic people do. there is no "proving" that we have human rights - that is something we all inherently have.
Happy Intersex awareness day!
I found this a bit ago, but here is the entire collection of Hermaphrodites With Attitude, an intersex newsletter that ran starting in 1994 until 2005.
The newsletter features intersex people from all over talking about their lives. There is a lot focused on the medical treatment of intersex people at the time, but there is also information about rallies and protests, news, and people talking about their lives!
i just wanted to say if you are intersex, you are not a mistake. you are not a disorder. you do not "need" to be fixed unless your body is in danger of infection or disease. you are not a mistake who "needs" correcting by virtue of existence. you are allowed to accept your body as it is. you are allowed to exist as you are. whether or not you want to change your body, or augment some features that are already there are up to you, and only you- you should never feel pressured by someone else to make that change.
please don't let others convince you into thinking your autonomy should be surrendered to people who "know better", "know what's good for you," or are concerned about you invading spaces as you are- you are an person with autonomy and you deserve to have the final say. you deserve to feel whole as you are. you are a blessing, no matter what community you reside in, or what identities you adopt. you are beautiful.
intersex is beautiful, no matter what variation you have, hormonal, gonadal, primary, secondary sex characteristics- we are all "biologically" intersex, and we not invading but blessing our communities with a broader perspective on what human life actually looks like.
If you wouldn’t call a black person with albinism a white person because of their skin color why would you call a biological man or woman with chromosomal differences, variation in their genitalia or even hormone disorders as “queer” or included in the gay community? The term intersex is an umbrella term that denotes differences in sex hormones, internal or external genitalia, or chromosomes. These are disorders of sex. Even in individuals with true gonadal intersex traits, they will have either male or female chromosomes. To my knowledge there has never been a human born with both a chromosomal variant as well as internal and external genital variants that cannot be determined to be male or female. Every person born is either male or female. Having these conditions does not make a person something other than male or female. A woman being born without a uterus/ovaries, clitoromegaly (an enlarged clitoris), or some chromosomal mutation doesn’t make her any less of a woman. It doesn’t surprise me that TRAs will use these conditions to justify someone with a completely male or female body saying that they are or transitioning to the other sex. Intersex people are valid men and women.
you like to act so big and tough but if i sat you on my lap and kissed your neck you'd just sit there making pretty noises and being a good pet wouldn't you?
i think "is intersex a health condition" and "is neurodivergence a disability" are questions that both have the same answer: it depends, based on the person's experiences, and how they feel about them.
it's okay if it is a health condition or disability, and it's okay if it isn't. people deserve access to what they need to be happy and as healthy as possible - and to not have anything forced on them. everyone is different, and that's amazing.