when I suggest a study to test the chromosomes of trans people to prove once and for all they have undiagnosed DSDs. Suddenly they seem reluctant
Published in 2015 and findable on various sites with the title: Ela Xora: the Trans Artist and Campaigner in the Silver Mask
That mask is a potent symbol of her struggle to rip apart preconceived notions of gender and gain recognition of her own gender identity--that biology is not black and white and that shades of gray should be celebrated, not denied.
Xora was raised as a boy and began presenting as a woman when she turned 25. For years, she believed that she had androgen insensitivity syndrome, or AIS, a condition that causes person who is genetically male, with XY chromosomes, to not respond to male hormones. She identified as intersex, and she thought she was lucky to escape to invasive, painful, and often lengthy surgical procedures that other intersex children undergo, a practice that the United Nations has recently denounced as "torture."
Early this year, chromosomal tests showed that Xora was mistaken—she does not have AIS. She says that this only adds to her belief that gender does not exist on a binary—and that neither trans nor intersex people should have the suffer for that. [NB I had to convert the double dash of the original into a long dash because it presented as strikethrough on this platform.]
It's not that surprising that Xora then discovered that actual chromosomal testing was irrelevant once it reported results that were unwanted and did not fit the preferred narrative.
(Yet more reason to not collaborate with the forced teaming and purposeful confusion of VSD in discussions of gender identity.)