@christineburns
I have known a couple of UK intersex trans women who openly identify as both ie. intersex and trans but would like to change their gender legally. I stand to be corrected but afaik the UK GRC (Gender Recognition Certificate) process is still prohibitive against this ...
@Natasha_Jay@christineburns this is something to look into, as although I was assigned male at birth my genetics are definitely not typical, and I appear to be somewhat androgen insensitive with almost certainly XX chromosomes (second is damaged and/or missing sexing genes) so probably intersex myself and trans.
When I had my genes tested the geneticist commented that my genes are what they would expect to see in a trans individual!
@alexadeswift@christineburns
Understandably both are very private people. One of them was XXY (Klinefelter) from memory, raised male but had transitioned internationally, and was finding it impossible to get a UK GRC via required medical letters as she was intersex
The big thing for me was interstanding personally that trans and intersex people & rights (& dysphoria) can absolutely overlap, something widely overlooked
In my case I have an SRY gene on my first chromosome, so if I was born XY I would have been born with Swyers Syndrome and definitely therefore intersex although I would have been assigned female at birth.
This is why I am reasonably sure my second chromosome is X, making me XX male. Rare, but we do exist! The SRY gene almost certainly doesn't come from my mother though as if it did she would have had Swyers Syndrome and I am not aware of any Swyers Syndrome people being fertile, so somehow during fertilisation an SRY gene from my father got mixed up during the fertilisation process and genetic recombination.
This is why the idea, much beloved of transphobes such as Dawkins, of biological sex being entirely binary is so very wrong, and also why the howls of "sterilisation" thrown at trans folks is so harmful, as I am a mummy to a daughter with my estranged wife. Hardly sterile then ...
@alexadeswift
The idea that chromosomal sex isn't binary gives the transphobic/GC mob absolute conniptions of course, for very obvious reasons. Thanks for sharing all this btw! @christineburns