The bullshit of only two “God-given sexes”

We could sit here and argue for millennia, as has already been done, on the question whether “God” exists or not, without ever coming to a final answer. Either side, or argument, could claim to be right and probably never have the proof to show. However, one thing is for certain: what White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, echoing Trump’s fascist executive orders, about there being “only two sexes, male and female”, and people being forced to use their “God-given sex, which was decided at birth” is simply bullshit (see article “Existing passports won’t be affected by Donald Trump’s anti-trans order, White House claims” in LGBQT Nation). 

Scientifically speaking, even without going into gender (which has, in fact, in a fascist manner been eliminated from the vocabulary of these orders and been replaced by the term sex), there are not only two sexes and sex is not given by “God”. First of all, sex (however we want to define it) is not given to a baby, or a person, by “God”: it is determined by biological and chemical factors, such as genes, chromosomes, hormones, etc. Moreover, and maybe even more importantly, “female” & “male” really are not, and have never been, the only “options”: intersex people exist and have always existed. “Intersex is a general term used for a variety of situations in which a person is born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t fit the boxes of ‘female‘ or ‘male’. … Being intersex is a naturally occurring variation in humans, and it isn’t a medical problem — therefore, medical interventions (like surgeries or hormone therapy) on children usually aren’t medically necessary. Being intersex is also more common than most people realize. It’s hard to know exactly how many people are intersex, but estimates suggest that about 1-2 in 100 people born in the U.S. are intersex. There are many different ways someone can be intersex. Some intersex people have genitals or internal sex organs that fall outside the male/female categories — such as a person with both ovarian and testicular tissues. Other intersex people have combinations of chromosomes that are different than XY ( usually associated with male) and XX (usually associated with female), like XXY. And some people are born with external genitals that fall into the typical male/female categories, but their internal organs or hormones don’t. If a person’s genitals look different from what doctors and nurses expect when they’re born, someone might be identified as intersex from birth. Other times, someone might not know they’re intersex until later in life, like when they go through puberty. Sometimes a person can live their whole life without ever discovering that they’re intersex.” [from https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/gender-identity/sex-gender-identity/whats-intersex#:~:text=What%20does%20intersex%20mean%3F,male”%20or%20“female”.]

So I cannot help asking myself: why are these people using so much time and energy and money and effort to attack us? What’s their problem with trans, nonbinary, intersex, and generally “different” persons? Why not use all that time and energy and money to solve actual, real problems? 

And the only answer I can find is that they are fascists. This is what fascists and nazis and all authoritarian governments and dictatorships have always done throughout history: they find scapegoats in whoever is somehow “different” and try to take their human rights away. And if there ever was something that is “God-given”, that is the human rights of each and every human being, regardless of their sex or gender or race or sexual orientation or religious beliefs or (dis)ability level or anything else. 

And one thing is for sure: I will fight for my human rights, and those of my fellow humans, if it’s the last thing I do.