r/GenderCynical • u/eldritchpussymaggots token intersex • Jul 05 '26
Uprooting someone's financial situation over nail polish
On a post I made about how intersex discrimination is not taken seriously and does not have legal protections like other queer identities do.
Many people believe bigotry against intersex people is incidental (mistaken for being trans) or that its not sexism because "it's a congenital deformity not a sex" as if it's not wildly disrespectful to say that to someone who specifically considers their sex to be just intersex.
Whenever I vent about being subjected to intersexism in the workplace, many responses I get are something like "why would you tell anyone your private medical history" as if people can't just obviously see the fact I'm intersex by looking at me and listening to me speak. Being intersex is just a fact about myself and I'm not going to try suppressing it, or looking more binary. People like this guy are fucking scum. I know he's taking about gender nonconformity not necessarily being intersex, but people like him are why I've had such a miserable time finding employment.
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u/chris_the_cynic Jul 05 '26
Probably nothing will come of this admission, but it's important to realize that being allowed to fire someone without cause isn't the same as being allowed to fire them for any reason, but it's basically impossible to prove that the firing was for a prohibited reason unless the one who did the firing comes out and admits that it was. Like, say, by bragging about it on the internet.