Intersex Awareness Day 10/26

I posted evidence but alas I'll post it again.

http://www.isna.org/faq/frequency

If you feel it is inaccurate, feel free to debunk it. If not, you don't have an argument.

 

1) ah, yeah ... that was the point

2) there are a thousand bizarros in the spectrum of human presentation. only immediate family and treating doctors need to be 'aware' of all of them. I have a genetic 'abnormality' myself (a race linked enzyme deficiency), yet I have to explain it almost every time someone hears of it for the first time. and get this .... I've even had to look it up in doctors' journals for them, when I presented with some other condition and happened to mention it. that's how UNAWARE the world is of my particular peculiarity.

you don't get special attention because you happen to have an anomaly which is related to sex. what IS it with SJWs and their obsession with all things sexual?

 

Well SJWs have latched on to this trans thing to come up with so called "third genders" to feel like special snowflakes.

Gender is absolutely binary there are only two. Intersex poeple though it is rare for them can sometimes be between the two but it's still binary. Transgender people switch from one to the other, that's still binary.

Everybody wants to be part of the Oppressed minority. So they make up stupid (*)(*)(*)(*) to claim part of LGBT. You aren't gay, you aren't a lesbian you aren't bisexual you most certainly aren't trans. You haven't gone through what those folks have, you just want to feel special.

My apologies this gender crap is getting old.

 

awareness = "special attention"?

No.

awareness = needing to tell everyone specifics about a difference that places you outside of some particular norm?

No.

Awareness is simply about knowing that such things - and the people who have to deal with them - exist more generally. A decent human might recognize the opportunity learn something more about the human condition and its diversity.

Awareness is not about seeking pity. I seriously don't think that's what intersex people want.

If you don't care about this topic, then please leave the thread. If your only purpose here is disrupt the discussion by being a crank, I will handle that as I deem appropriate.

 

There are problem 10,000+" _______ awareness days." Just something someone or so group declares.

The most popular one not created next would be "National Me day."

 

But we don't need to KNOW about it unless it directly affects us personally. It's absurd to suggest that all of us should be 'aware' of the thousands of different genetic anomalies in human physiology. Laughably absurd. If doctors don't even make it their business to know them all (how in hell could they, anyway), why do you expect lay people to acquire this information? And what do you expect them to do with it?

No one mentioned pity. What these people - or more likely, their 'allies' - are seeking is acknowledgement and attention. Why? Why do they regard themselves as extraordinarily special - worthy of broad acknowledgement of what is just another genetic anomaly? And worse, they do it while they themselves fail to acknowledge (in the same way) other genetic anomalies.

 

To my understanding the awareness day isn't about people acquiring information about it. It's about spreading awareness of it. Just in this thread alone two posters were under the impression that it was rare.

 

Again, when the same 'awareness' campaigns are instituted for every other genetic anomaly (with a similar headcount, if you prefer), it will make a lick of sense. Since it's been singled out and made exceptional, we have to ask why. Unfortunately, it's hard to avoid drawing the conclusion that it's the S.E.X at the end of the word Intersex. Sex sells, so they say.

 

I don't think it's because of sex it's because people care about it it's interesting to most folks. Prostate cancer has a sexual connotation it's cancer of a sexual organ but nobody talks about it. I think it's because it has to do with gender and a lot of people are really intrigued by this concept of a non-binary gender. They can make up millions of different categories for gender does feeling like a special little snowflakes and getting to identify as LGBT.

 

I get what you're saying, but CA Prostate isn't a good example because most (men, at least) associate it with getting 'fisted' at the doctors office once a year after the age of 40. It's not 'glamorous', it's ugly, painful, and far more likely to be associated with rectal exams and urine than with sex.

Meantime, I'd politely suggest that few people are intrigued by the idea of 'non-binary gender'. But these few do have very loud voices, and are in positions of power and/or authority.

 

I think the average person is intrigued by intersex phenomena. I find it interesting. People born as girls physically become male in puberty... though that particular incident is rare it is fascinating.

Non binary gender doesn't exist in the human species even these Intersexed folks are binary.

The non binary loonies like to say being in the spectrum between the two sexes is a "third sex."

 

I guess it does have something of the 'freak' element about it. So to speak.

Yes indeed, the non-binary snowflakes live in wish-land. That the majority appear to be morbidly obese 14 year old 'pansexuals' might give us a clue as to how sound their ideas are.

 

I wouldn't put it that way. Biodiversity is quite a fascinating subject. And i think many people wish to empathize with such people. It's love to know what challenges they over came if they even did. Something that has been so concrete in my life is malleable in theirs. I wish to understand. I feel the same way about trans folks.

I honestly think these people want to be unique and be "in" with LGBTs, let's face it LGBTs are a widely diverse group of poeple.

They want to be members, but it isn't really a club, in my experience as long as you're not a complete dousch you're welcome among them.

I don't really know. Having not decided to be a gay person, I can't see why people are making up different genders just to swear allegence to something we homos don't pick.

 

Yes, actually, there's a condition where people have XXY or XXYY chromosomes. There's also a condition where they have XYY (though that has barely any phenotype effect).