1/ Many activists claim their view that sex is a spectrum helps prevent intersex surgeries from taking place since male and female aren't seen as fixed categories and thus in a sense we are all intersex to some degree.
It tries to solve a problem by queering everyone.
It tries to solve a problem by queering everyone.
2/ Despite being a factually inaccurate way to view biological sex, I fail to see how portraying intersex as not being fully male or female, but rather somewhere in between because *we all are*, would actually prevent intersex surgeries on infants from taking place.
3/ Rather than telling parents that their intersex infants are not fully male or female, which seems to me would only *increase* the likelihood that parents would pursue "corrective" surgery, the truth seems far more likely to prevent unnecessary surgery on infants.
4/ And the truth is that their infants are not some intermediate between male and female. They are in fact fully male or female as-is. Your infant doesn't need surgery to make them fully male or female, because they already are.
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