"Gender Police", or F**kwits!

By Sophia Siedlberg:

4  January 2009

I just came across some blog in the Australian Herald Sun going on about the proposed designator of "intersex" on birth certificates. I am not sure how it would work in practice but I get the feeling there was a whiff of political correctness behind it and as most journalists don't all that much like political correctness, then Andrew Bolt writing about the rampant political correctness of the lefties sort of makes some sense. I accept the line of reasoning that says, "Well, the LGBT people have co-opted intersex so they can continue their leftist agenda." In many ways I agree with that, having seen it first hand.

Andrew even points out to those who go a bit far that there are actual intersex conditions but then he says they "generally identify as male or female". The problem with this is that they would if some were not hacked, chopped, mutilated and hammered to fit into a sex and ended up rejecting it. And yes, surprise, surprise we get some of the commentators wheeling out the "cocks in frocks in the female toilets". Give me a break guys.

Let's not be politically correct about it. Let’s be honest, blokes waving their willies around screaming, "The world must obey this" and then their radical feminist friends running around with their tits hanging out while chewing at the Tampax also screaming "The world must obey this" can say what they want, but every child that gets mutilated to fit this mockery of reproduction will grow up having something to say about it. And this adult who was such a child (Born an "ethnic zealot" by the way, good Monty Python reference) has a slightly different viewpoint to the one often portrayed.

Could I not have been allowed to grow up, to say my teens and then decide for myself what I am? Aha! That's a gotcha, isn't it? You can't do that. It smacks of transsexualism. They say, "Oh yes, well transsexuals are born one thing and deny history when seeking to change their birth certificates". The argument goes that correctness says they have to be allowed to deny reality (Hence the Monty Python reference) by having birth certificates changed. People were born as they were born. But it is not political correctness but moral truth for the same people to claim that a child born intersex is either fully male or female. (What is that if it is not denying history?) They touch on it with "Oh well, there is Klinefelters and XXY" and go into the usual secondary school debate about chromosomes.

But this does not answer my question. Or does it? Let's get to the truth, eh? When an intersex child is born society says "make them either male or female" and on their birth certificates a sometimes surgically constructed sex is entered on the record. But hang on a minute. "Surgery does not make one a man or a woman" I read when people talk of transsexual folks. Usually such people worm out of that by saying that with intersex it is: "corrective surgery" while with transsexual folks it is: "Self mutilation". But a scalpel is a scalpel and the fashioning of human tissue is the fashioning of human tissue.

Hey, I am seeing this is black and white. If an intersex kid grows up and decides for themselves what sex they are, we get the usual howls of "self mutilation". How curious, oh they hide it behind all manner of excuses but it is a simply double standard to prop up norm born sadism. They want something to point at and beat up, or write nasty things about. Am I wrong? Or does the evidence read that way? Does a child with their uterus ripped out and a tiny knob that pretends to be a penis put there by surgeons, pretending it is a penis, belong in the gent’s or the ladies’? Oh, it happens that way sometimes, (Völling case). Does a kid who had their penis lobbed off and spent years being brutalized into playing with Barbie dolls belong in the ladies’ or the gent’s? (Reimer case). Would a child born with practically nothing either way with a surgically constructed knob dripping with blood, dressed like a walking mass of plumbing, with the other kids mocking "it" while kicking the piss bag and seeing what would happen if they pulled the catheter pipe out belong in the ladies’ or gent’s? (My case originally). I was "lucky". I could empty the blood and piss filled bag into the nearest drain. I didn't need the ladies’ or the gent’s. And sometimes normal kids are the victims of this weird shit as well (Reimer case).

I know some of the commentators would probably respond with throwing such children into a furnace while alive just to let them know that "G-d hates them". Intersex people are not "new victims", more like "the most victimized" and as such a person, I am not playing victimhood anymore. Because I know that seeking legal protection when I was a child was a complete waste of time. "Please don't hurt me" I would say, when being beaten and raped because I was "too girly" and then told I deserved it by the system because I was "too boyish". (See they could not even make their minds up after they mutilated me, raped me and beat the crap out of me).

That is the brutal truth guys. Look at it for what it is instead of pontificating about "cocks in frocks". Are you smirking now? Like you did when the teacher in school described the reproductive anatomy of worms? Instead of blandly lumping us in with all these politically correct agendas you hate so much, why don't you simply bypass the politically correct and talk to us, those of us that have suffered all manner of weird shit and see what we have to say and what we want? You may be surprised. A lot of us don't actually like the idea of "intersex" appearing as an official designator. We want to be respected as human beings from the day we are born and given the freedom to decide for ourselves what suits us best. That is not asking much, is it?

I ended up female; but for all I know, had I been left alone, I may have ended up male. It seems unlikely but then that is just my point. Had I been left alone to think and decide for myself, there would not have been a problem would there? Who knows, you may have gotten what you wanted. I don't have some innate sense of being male or female. Female just seems to be the lesser of two evils. It need not have ended up that way. I could have been more or less male or female and completely comfortable with it if you, society and the "gender police" had not interfered with me.

You can talk about bits of meat or chromosomes until you are blue in the face, what you are really saying is what I take issue with. It has nothing to do with two sexes or toilets, but more to do with just how nasty it really gets and how many children grow up utterly traumatized by it. And what you are really saying is what causes that to happen. It is so simple. Now grow up so those children who were mutilated, hammered and tormented by all this can be allowed to grow up unmolested. I am not a new victim, but someone who was victimized from birth and am pissed off with it. And as every "gender cop" who decided to pick on me has found out, hospital food can taste really nice.

Footnote:

I am not arguing that surgery undertaken by transsexual folks is non viable. I am sick of seeing transsexual folks being scapegoated and denied the things they themselves seek.  I am pointing out that when people attack transsexual folks for seeking, often paying for and consenting to surgery, they somehow claim that this is immoral, even though transsexual folks clearly benefit from that surgery. At the same time these people attacking transsexual folks seem to support surgery that is neither consented to or sought by the individual concerned. Surely it should be the other way round? Infant surgery should be stopped and subject to investigation as an unethical practice and access to surgery for transsexual folks should be improved. Society seems to scapegoat transsexual people, claiming they are "Going against the natural order" while at the same time forcing surgery on intersex children who do not consent to it. That basically shows society as pretty sadistic at best.

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