There are two sexes…

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Well just that really….I have gay, straight, bi sexual and transsexual friends and absolutely have no problem with that, very much a do what makes you happy person.

Butttt….AIBU to think the world is going a bit mad with all the non-female, cis female and whatever other labels are floating about. I’m a woman and that’s that, you are either biologically a male or biologically a female and I don’t mean that in an insensitive way dress how you like and date who you like but surely we can’t just be inventing different/new sexes and telling straight women they are no longer a woman they are now XYZ?

The same number of people are born intersex as are left handed. Fact.
It's the most common reason for infertility.
It may not be obvious to the person and many only find out that they are intersex when trying for a baby.

"Gender tests on Semenya reportedly showed the runner had no womb or ovaries but that she had internal testes, the male sexual organs which produce testosterone, and her levels of the hormone were three times that usually expected in a female. "

Sounds as though you need to do the looking up. Intersex is not a sex.

Incredibly cruel and invasive. It's how it used to be but should not be any more.

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The amount of posts arguing whether Caster is male or female proves that people with DSD are not a third sex doesn't it.

Back to the OP's question then...

You’re right of course, but too many don’t understand this. NB: ‘teacher’ on ‘cat’ recording row…

I posted a video upthread for starters. It's no shame not to know by the way, all the press around Semenya for years was about obfuscating the truth. All the drawn out sports bodies decisions and wranglings, and media insinuating that it was racist to suggest Semenya was a male, or making reference to Semenya having 'naturally high testosterone ' was all obscuring the facts that Semenya is male and everyone involved has know that for at least the last 10 years of Semenya's career

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DSDs and nope

Not true people with DSD (previously described as intersex) are either male or female, their DSD will impact them in line with their actual sex for example.

DSD language has been stolen by trans ideology (eg assigned at birth) and are used by TRAs as part of their argument to try and prove that there is a sex spectrum (there is no spectrum)

It's probably advisable for you to resist the temptation to call other people's words offensive when you keep using the word "intersex", it's outdated and hasn't been used in a medical environment for he better part of two decades and people with DSD's do find it offensive.

No one has "decided" that Caster has a medical condition or what sex Caster is, these are scientific facts, not insults.

I suspect most people are happy to respect Caster's pronouns but facts matter.

Caster is male, again this is a fact not an insult.

It’s a load of male ego centred, misogynistic, regressive bullshit

Sigh.

Have you read this thread. Numerous posters (including myself), have all stated clearly intersex is an incredibly offensive and outdated term for what are now known to be DSDs - Differences in Sex Development. However, and most pertinently, DSDs are still sexed and some affect only biological males and some affect only biological females.

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People who are intersex may have a mix of chromosomes, such as XXY. Or they may have some cells that are XY and some cells that are XX. Or they may have just one X chromosome (XO).

Well just that really….I have gay, straight, bi sexual and transsexual friends and absolutely have no problem with that, very much a do what makes you happy person.

You seem to have very diverse friends. Just out of interest do your trans friends believe there are only 2 sexes? If they do why do they say they are trans? If they believe in more than two sexes why do you indulge them?

The ignorance of DSD on this thread (leaning aside ppl with DSD repeated requests not to be dragged into this) is truly astounding

less than 1% of the population have a DSD; 11% of the population

and no PCOS for example is not a DSD despite TRA trying to appropriate that as well

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Are you implying that intersex is not real? A scientifically proven biological situation?

It's great you bought this up, as there haven't been any other threads about this....

fucksake 11% of the population are left handed

Have you RTFT? All the information is pretty much here if you want to educate yourself..

The term intersex is very outdated and offensive.

The correct term is DSD (difference of sexual development).

People with DSDs (what you are calling intersex) are still either male or female.

The reason intersex is still being used as a term is due to TRAs who use it as some kind of gotcha to prove an existence of a third sex. Except it isn't a thing, and not only that, but the many conditions that fall under the intersex DSD umbrella are all sexed, and only affect one biological sex or the other. There isn't a single DSD that affects both sexes.

There’s some strong debate as to if Caster really ‘lived as a woman’ whatever that means.

I love this explanation 😊