Mrkhtake2's threads on intersex conditions are very helpful, so I've been reading her a good bit lately. I've gathered from her tweets that it's a no-no to call an enlarged clitoris a penis, which raises questions for me. I'm not on twitter (I just read the publicly available sites in my browser) so I can't ask her directly, and I'm hoping someone here can explain it to me.
I'm a biologist, taught zoology for years, had the usual embryology classes, etc., etc. Developmentally, clitoris and penis are derived from the same tissue. They wind up in different shapes, the head and shaft are both homologous, the clitoris does not wrap around the urethra. A virilized clitoris doesn't include the urethra either, since that can only happen in the embryo. So, yes, they're different, but they're not unrelated.
So why is it unacceptable to discuss them as similar (not equivalent) organs? I don't, for my sanity, read TRAs. Do they make a big deal out of these are identical and that proves they're right about no such thing as biological sex?
Anyway, I'd be grateful for some education here.