Date: 2011-12-02 08:40 pm (UTC)
salinea: (geek power)
From: [personal profile] salinea
Err, I'm not sure I'm quite knowledgeable enough to talk about intersexuality in an... educating manner to other people. I'm only a little bit familiar with it myself. So sorry if I'm misspeaking. It's just... "Intersex" can describe a whole spectrum of medical conditions that cause people to have a body that doesn't quite fall into the sex binary easily. Given that variety it feels pretty weird to have someone come and label it as "third sex" or "neither sex" (or "both sex", something which I don't believe you really addressed); as if someone could come and make it simple like that. And i know you were emphatically talking about sex and not gender, so the whole issue of self-identity wasn't put on the forefront, but I'm not entirely sure that it is a topic on which you can safely rely on a gender vs sex duality either.

So, no, I wasn't really talking about the point you were trying to make about bisexuality, and whether or not it encompasses intersex people, as such.

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