Intersex is often defined as individuals born with variations in sex characteristics that "do not fit the typical definitions for male or female bodies."

This is true, but it does not mean someone who is born intersex is not male or female.
If you believe that individuals with atypical bodies are not male or female, you are then defining male and female by societal stereotypes and platonic ideas of what you think male and female bodies should look like.

Stop othering people, and accept bodily diversity!
I'll give you a concrete example:

Some women are born with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, which may cause an enlarged clitoris in XX-typical females. Are these women not females because their genitalia does not fit stereotypical norms?

Of course not.
Now, you could twist this and say that we should dispense with all societal norms altogether, as radical trans activists do, and say that a male is actually a woman, and that we should stop using stereotypical norms to define what a woman is.

You can understand why this is wrong
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