Was reading the rules and they said that anyone that is a victim of intersexism can identify as intersex, and I just wonder what intersexism is exactly and how it would differ from, for example, stigma against trans people who appear with ambiguous or mixed gender.
I assume intersexism is something more narrow than merely the way anyone with ambiguous or mixed gender traits might be mistreated in society.
Just wondering if there is a book or article I should read to learn more, basically.
Thanks, but this doesn’t really answer my question, even if it is helpful.
Scanning through the article, the main conclusion I draw is that the mistreatment of intersex people in society is very similar to mistreatment of trans people.
One of the main ways intersex people suffer that trans people do not is involuntary and / or coercive medical procedures to conform intersex bodies to cis standards. Unlike the false concerns anti-trans activists raise, intersex activism is actually focused on ending involuntary child mutilation.
What I was hoping for was a book or article that focuses more on anti-intersex attitudes that aren’t just the same stigmatizing attitudes people have which make up a lot of transphobia (basically stigma against ambiguous gender, gender non-conforming bodies and behaviors, etc.) - and it seems like the surgeries and medical contexts are one of those places where these kinds of differences come up. I was wondering if there might be other examples, or even theorists who are working on analyzing anti-intersex attitudes.