I’d love to see this expanded to cover some more of the common batshit TRA claims, such as ‘intersex is as common as being ginger’.
Ginger people seem pretty common if you live in the UK, Ireland, the US and Australia, so this claim makes intersex conditions seem common too - after all, the numbers ARE similar, and we all know several ginger people, right?
However, when you look at the global population and see how few ginger people there are in African and Asian countries, you realise that even if intersex people and ginger people do occur at the same rate, both are statistically unusual worldwide.
Ginger people do not prove that ‘sex is a spectrum’.
Also, if you wanted to, you could actively breed more ginger people, increasing the population numbers ‘- you can’t do this with disorders of sexual development, especially as lots of the conditions under the ‘intersex’ header cause infertility.
(I say this as a ginger person who married a ginger person and had a ginger baby. My non-ginger baby (different father) has autism spectrum disorder, so I am also well aware that having a medically diagnosed developmental ‘disorder’ does not make you a lesser human being, just a variation.
Equally, having gender dysphoria doesn’t make you a lesser human being, nor does it make you a special exemption from sex based classifications)
Anyone else got a favourite batshit claim they’d like to see debunked?