[Controversial]There's a calling out that needs to be: Identity, medical issues, community

[danaelaurm]

There is a tendency among many trans people to label their transness as “strictly a medical issue”, usually as an excuse to insist that they do not identify as trans or that they do not consider being trans as something that can be part of an identity, period, for the less offensive version

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[danaelaurm]

See, that's what I don't get... How does it cure anything. Even if, at some future point, once my hearing is gone far enough, I get implants, they won't make me any less deaf. It's just something in my body. :/

[snakey]

so I'll tell him that it was a medical condition that caused the doctors to guess wrong. I don't identify as intersex, but if it gets the job done in this case, I'll use whatever it takes

Appropriative much?

[alicephilippa]

Too damn right. As TS individuals we do not have the right to appropriate the identity of those who are genuinely IS.

[hrolleif]

Do intersex conditions have some sort of culture around them? If so, could you point that out to me anywhere? I know a number of people with klienfelters syndrome and they do not seem to have any cultural identity of "intersex".

[snakey]

I'm really pretty shocked by this reply. You know it's wrong, but you still claim to be intersex if it benefits your professional life? Wow. What's so wrong with saying you're transsexual?

[alicephilippa]

*fail*

You have no right to appropriate an IS identity just to further your employment.

[snakey]

*nods* It was the second sentence that made me read the statement in the context of intersex.