I recently had cause to read
something from Intersex Human Rights Australia which struck me, at least at first glance, as entirely sensible and a subtle rebuke to the trans activists who wish to define away biological sex into some kind of nonexistent spectrum (
emboldening mine):
After fielding a few phone calls it is clear that many people can’t
grasp our position in opposing the creation of a third sex while
supporting X sex descriptors on birth certificates and passports.
To be clear, intersex is not an arbitrary third sex category, but
rather a spectrum of possibilities, and nor is it an arbitrary third
gender.
Even though some intersex people define their identity as intersex,
this is a political statement, and not necessarily anything about their
gender or preference for sex classification. Identity is not what
defines intersex: intersex is contingent on innate physical bodily
characteristics. Intersex is not a gender identity because it is a matter of sex. ...
We say we should have that right in the same way we have the right to
remain silent on our gender identity, our sexual orientation, our race,
our religion and our political affiliation. None of those things are
marked on birth certificates or passports, though they are in some ways
more indicative of who a person is than sex anatomy.
This strikes me as entirely reasonable. The trans activists have tried to conflate biological intersex individuals (such as people with
Kleinefelter syndrome) with people having gender dysphoria, but the former get almost no air time.
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