Part 4 Male Gender Identity in an Individual With Complete Androgen Insensitivit

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Part 4 Male Gender Identity in an Individual With Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
09 August, 2010


http://americantransman.com/2010/08/09/part-4-male-gender-identity-in-an-individual-with-complete-androgen-insensitivity-syndrome/#comment-527


What I learned during summer workation -
(as opposed to vacation, which it wasn't):

1.  Some intersex people really don't like it when trans people claim to be intersex because they're trans.

2.  Some trans people really don't like it when they're told they're not intersex just because they're trans.

3.  No one seems to care if I write about the biological basis of gender identity and cite research studies involving intersex people.  Well, if they do, they sure didn't tell me. (And that includes the Accord Alliance, who never replied to my query on the subject.)

Now I didn't learn all this from reading comments to my blog posts.  There are plenty of people out there in our communities who talk and write about this issue, and I've seen it pop up on the lists as well.  Although this is an important subject that would likely benefit from open dialog, that's not the focus of what we're doing here at ATM, at least not at the moment.

So what does it all mean?