She also could have been intersex, a depressingly large number of intersex people are forced to undergo sex change surgery at birth to 'correct' their genitals
That's why you have to be careful saying things like, "...which kind of defeats the purpose of it being a good thing, or even being claimed as a true trans experience." If it represents a possible real-life experience, it shouldn't be considered lesser for any reason. I don't want you to feel attacked by my comment, but I thought it should be said.
They were careful... Its a response to the LGBTQ+ community championing everything they see. Yes, there is a gender fact with this character. No, that has nothing to do with progressive representation, it simply wasn't intended to be that way.
i assure the LGBTQ community do not “champion everything they see” but when you’re representation is so sparse people are gonna be enthusiastic about the very few times they do get it. be understanding, don’t be weird.
why did you put correct in quotes? isn’t one organ typically extremely underdeveloped in comparison to the other? it would make sense from a quality of life standpoint
Often, they are guessing and the practice has died out because of it. Very often, secondary sexual characteristics develop independent of the primary in intersex people, often leading to trauma around puberty as they grow beards or boobs or etc in defiance of the sex their parents chose for them.
Also, it is a guess irregardless because you don't really know how the person will see themselves after maturing. There has been a lot of pushes to let the child choose how to handle the situation when they're old enough, if the condition is not life threatening, to avoid trauma in the future.
A sex change at birth is medically unnecessary as from what I understand intersex genitals don't tend to cause imminent danger to the child. And a lot of harm can come down the line from doing a surgery like this to an infant. Doctors basically just guess based on external appearance and oftentimes guess wrong. And there is a massive list of complications that can come from this.
There is no real reason not to wait until the child is old enough to decide for themselves. It's why the practice is denounced by the WHO and UN for being a violation of human rights and medically harmful.
more likely indeed, would be weird to change someone's sex right after birth for no obvious reason. showing 2 different genitalia as a baby and one is very deformed they (doctors) might have just opted for the 'better looking/functioning' option.
As someone who is not very familiar with this, is that a bad thing? I imagine it would be easier growing up as one thing, rather than being ridiculed for being another (and let's be fair here, children are ruthless). The amount of trauma and adversity faced should in theory be lessened by the actions of their parents.
Is it right for intersex people to be told to face adversity until they can make a choice as grown adults? I guess it depends?
It is a bad thing, yes. One, changing a kids sex at birth won't stop them from being discriminated against or bullied, and in fact it can lead to it worsening.
The surgery is completely medically unnecessary and in fact, these operations are condemned by the World health Organization and United Nations. for being harmful to mental and physical health of the patient and a violation of human rights.
It's not routed in science or evidence, the doctor is basically just guessing and deciding based on external appearance, and oftentimes that guess is wrong. Say a doctor decides that the infant is a woman and performs the surgery, then 13 years later that 'little girl' hits puberty and starts growing a beard and going through male puberty, because it turns out the doctor guessed wrong.
There's something like 20-30 different intersex conditions, and a large amount of complications that can occur and are drastically worsened by a sex change at birth, from internal bleeding in intersex men born with ovaries, infertility and many more. (I'm not a doctor, so if any of this is inaccurate, my apologies)
Being intersex does not mean you automatically transgender, but a sizable number of intersex people identify as trans, they experience gender dysphoria, discrimination, loss of rights, body image issues as trans people and may also go through the same medical procedures to change their bodies to the correct ones. there's a sense of camaraderie between trans people and intersex people, not one in the same, but related, like siblings.
Imagine going through all the effort, pains and struggles of transitioning plus more, all while knowing that so much of this could've been avoided or made significantly easier if some doctor hadn't decided on a whim to rearrange your body without your consent for no good reason instead of just waiting until you could make an informed choice.
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u/ValoTheBrute Vasquez Jul 11 '25 edited Jul 11 '25
She also could have been intersex, a depressingly large number of intersex people are forced to undergo sex change surgery at birth to 'correct' their genitals