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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

So what do you want to call it then? It's not like I'm attached to the term itself, but the point is that it's a useful and necessary concept in some contexts so there needs to be a term that refers to it, and you can't just assume anyone who uses the most common term to describe it is transphobic.

And I never said it's a binary, but if a person is intersex then that's probably important information for their doctors to know because there may be certain medical complications that they're more at risk for as a result.

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

"birth-assigned sex" or "assigned sex"

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago

Thank you, it would have been much easier to say that the first time I asked "what's a better term if you don't like that one?" instead of jumping off the deep end and assuming I'm just trying to be transphobic