The usual naive pro-trans argument goes like this: “some people are intersex, therefore sex is arbitrary, therefore it is okay for people to identify as whatever they want”.
But if we take sex and gender as two dimensions, then it’s like: “on the sex dimension, most people are at one end, but a few people are in between… and on the gender dimension, traditionally it matches the sex, but some people (importantly: not necessarily those who are in between on the sex dimension) identify as the opposite”.
I guess this would be considered an anti-trans argument these days, because it allows people to express positions such as “I am attracted to the female sex, regardless of gender”, or “I think bathrooms should be separated by sex (without having a strong opinion on intersex people)”.
I agree. Intersex people are like the 1% of blorks. If one of them was mostly white with only a little black and wanted to identify as a white blork, that is a completely different situation than a 100% black blork using that as a justification for being able to identify as a white blork as well.
The usual naive pro-trans argument goes like this: “some people are intersex, therefore sex is arbitrary, therefore it is okay for people to identify as whatever they want”.
But if we take sex and gender as two dimensions, then it’s like: “on the sex dimension, most people are at one end, but a few people are in between… and on the gender dimension, traditionally it matches the sex, but some people (importantly: not necessarily those who are in between on the sex dimension) identify as the opposite”.
I guess this would be considered an anti-trans argument these days, because it allows people to express positions such as “I am attracted to the female sex, regardless of gender”, or “I think bathrooms should be separated by sex (without having a strong opinion on intersex people)”.
I agree. Intersex people are like the 1% of blorks. If one of them was mostly white with only a little black and wanted to identify as a white blork, that is a completely different situation than a 100% black blork using that as a justification for being able to identify as a white blork as well.