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minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoIntersex. And there are more of them than trans people per 100k, I believe. Yet somehow they’re never brought up. Many (maybe most?) end up getting some type of gender-affirming surgery very early on, but not always. And who knows, going forward.
minus-squarerotten@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoIt doesn’t get brought up because they didn’t make an issue of it or make demands on everyone else. It’s also a surgery based on physical medical need and practicality. No pushy activism was involved.
Intersex. And there are more of them than trans people per 100k, I believe. Yet somehow they’re never brought up.
Many (maybe most?) end up getting some type of gender-affirming surgery very early on, but not always. And who knows, going forward.
It doesn’t get brought up because they didn’t make an issue of it or make demands on everyone else. It’s also a surgery based on physical medical need and practicality. No pushy activism was involved.