Intersex as an ostentation of the endosex group phantasy.

DOING ENDOSEX
Alongside increased attention to and debate about sexual and gender diversity, more equitable social relations require serious attention to the ways social authorities do or construct the sex categories that provide the basis for doing gender and sexualities. Although many endosex people—regardless of gender or sexuality identity—treat sex as something people possess as a straightforward categorization of genital shape and appearance, these beliefs rely upon a simplification of biological diversity that negatively impacts […] intersex people.

Scholars refer to those people who “fit neatly” into these male/female exclusive categorizations as endosex. Endosex people are assigned male or female, and often think very little about this assignment—or the possibility that it was incorrect in any biologically empirical way—throughout their lives unless something unexpected forces them to consider it.

[S]ocial authorities generally design and disseminate selective versions of science, religion, and media that emphasize some elements of social life (e.g., cis experience, hetero- and monosexuality, upper=class experience, endosex [i.e., non-intersex] categorization and downplay or otherwise erase other aspects of social life (e.g., Blackness or other non-white racial experience, trans experience, […]

A second pathway may be found in recent work published on the ways endosex (i.e., those assigned male or female by society) people respond to the existence of intersex people (Sumerau and Cragun, 2018).

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