To give some background to this for anyone who isn’t sure.
In the history of the medical treatment of intersex disorders, or disorders of sexual development, there was a time when doctors would look at a baby’s ambiguous genitalia, decide what they could “fashion” from the available tissue, and tell parents that their child would be made into a child of a certain sex. For example, if there really wasn’t enough penile tissue to make what is considered a “normal” penis, parents were told they’d be better of raising their Male child as a girl and the doctors would make the child look like a girl, externally at least from a genitalia perspective. This would usually also involve removing testes.
However, it became increasingly obvious that when these children grew up, things just weren’t right for them, and on discovering what was done, rightly felt aggrieved that these decisions were made purely for cosmetic reasons usually, and to make a child more socially acceptable, when decisions should have waited until the child was old enough to have say.
As a result, people with DSDs have successfully campaigned for decisions not to be rushed, a sex not to assigned before it is necessary and allow some autonomy for the child as they grow, and this is now much more of a normal practice.
However, we now have a situation where people who are trans - whose bodies have no disorder of their sexual development - are claiming that they too were also “assigned” incorrectly (“violently”) and they too should be allowed to change the sex they were “assigned” even though the sex that was recorded for them was entirely accurate and what they’re describing is their incongruent feeling towards that sex.
Understandably, advocates and campaigners for people with DSDs have repeatedly asked not to have their cause appropriated in this way, but they tend to be rudely ignored.
And we now have situation where the completely scientifically inaccurate term “assigned at birth” is being written into legislation.
It’s bonkers.