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Given that we're talking about whether or not the passport should have additional options, and are citing this % as a reason for providing additional options, i
by raffraffraff 4y ago
Given that we're talking about whether or not the passport should have additional options, and are citing this % as a reason for providing additional options, it's important to ask:
Q: How do we know that the people who want more than 2 options for sex are, in fact, these same 0.018% of the population who have DSDs?
In my limited experience, they are not the same people at all. Clair [https://differently-normal.com/author/clarecais/ https://differently-normal.com/author/clarecais/] has CAIS, and has "F" on her passport. Statistically, non-binary people have no DSD, and are unambiguously either M or F but wish to identify as something else. Therefore making an arguing for additional options in the passport sex field using an intersex stat is precisely what Clair complains about in her blog: ie, she's pulled into a fairly toxic social/political debate by a group that wants to use her condition for its own gains.
Clare is one data point of course, but her slant tallies with the assertion that "arguments made using this group and trying to apply it to society as a whole is likely not made in good faith".