Why Does Having An Intersex Condition Mean You Can't Be Transgender?

[Guest jayden18]

well it was recommended I'd be raised male. I grew up believing I was male up until I was 11. I was explained why my privates and other features weren't as masculine. I decided to live as a girl when I was 16. Socially I was just transgender. Physically I was looking into hormones and surgery. My question is why technically is it different for people who are born with an intersex condition jw?

[Guest JaniceW]

There are a few things that are different for an intersexed person from a transsexual. One of them is that intersexed people can have a number of medical issues that are not found with transsexuals and therefore need more thorough medical support beyond just supervising hormones or surgery, not that all intersexed people have these situations but they may so doctors need to check them out. It is not that the intersexed are precluded from transitioning but the path can be different through the process.

[Guest Elizabeth K]

I have the same question, but I think it is something like a medically diagnosed intersexed condition is just that - a medical condition. Whereas a diagnosed transsexual condition is almost always from therapy, making it a mental health condition, because it is usually NOT verifiable by the medical profession.

So a person could be intersexed and a decision made in the infancy of a person as to the more likely successful gender, and that gender 'medically' enhanced. It requires an early intervention, a bit of chance and guesswork, hoping the gender selected is acceptable to that intersexed person, essentially, that that person is comfortable in that gender - when they reach 'the age of reason.'

If the gender choice turns out to be incorrect, and that intersexed person is unhappy, THEN it becomes an issue of gender dysphoria, that person feeling they are not in the correct body gender for their feelings.

Is that the prime indicator for transsexuality?

If you as an intersexed person take hormonal and surgical steps to REVISE the body to match the mindset, isn't that what transsexual people do?

Lizzy

[Guest silverpetals]

It doesn't! Laura's Playground has a weird habit of trying to separate people into little mutually-exclusive boxes with labels. But really anyone who transitions, or desires to do so, is "trans" by definition - intersexed or not. Of course plenty of intersexed people will not transition; many won't even know about it.

But it isn't really any different imho. As I see it, every person who transitions ends up technically intersexed anyway, if they weren't in the first place. It's all confusing really isn't it.

Take care

[Guest jayden18]

well people with my condition don't have many medical issues of that sort.