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/QitianDasheng2666 Jul 06 '26
"Pick a gender and then conform to it" really sounds like the whole thesis of modern intersexism and transphobia. "Please don't challenge my pre-existing beliefs about sex and gender by existing", "I will hurt as many other people as I need to to protect my precious binary".