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⌈ Secret Post #4066 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

People who are physically intersex exist, so why wouldn't people who are inter-gender exist?

nayrt but my answer to this would be, if trans identity (male and female) is dependent on transitioning not only physically but socially to the opposite gender, "inter-gender" can't exist because there isn't a social role attributed to intersex people. Unless someone literally wanted surgery to make themselves intersex, I don't think the experience is comparable. Especially when the vast majority of actual intersex people present and identify exclusively as one gender or the other.

[erinptah]

Couple of things here...

- I'm not a fan of any definition of trans identity that depends on society being a certain way for trans people to exist. That said:

- Lots of cultures do have 3 socially-established gender roles. Take fa'afafine in Samoa, for example. What makes more sense: that Samoan people have a special third-gender genetic/neurological configuration that no other race has, or that any human can have that configuration but only certain cultures have given it a name?

- There people whose medical wishes for their bodies fall in-between male and female. Maybe they want to do some-but-not-all of the physical changes typically involved in transition. Or maybe their mindset is "I'm unhappy with my body half of the time, but if I got surgery I would just end up being unhappy with my body the other half of the time, so it's not worth the risk."

- Intersex people are subject to the same social pressures as the rest of us to fit into certain gender categories. Even more so if they're visibly intersex from birth, in which case they're usually subject to medically-unnecessary surgery and hormone treatments to force them into appearing exclusively-male or exclusively-female. Given these circumstances, it sounds realistic to me that most intersex people would present as either male or female, but I can't find any research to back up whether that's how most people actually identify.