Intersex people face high levels of violence in Europe (www.dw.com)
from schizoidman@lemmy.zip to world@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 01:46
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cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/48936466

One in six intersex people was physically assaulted in the year 2022, an EU agency report said.

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KernelTale@programming.dev on 18 Sep 04:54 next collapse

How do people tell somebody is intersex?

ByteJunk@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 07:48 collapse

To be honest, I’m confused about this too.

How are 40% of respondents being harassed at work for being intersex? How do people even find out?

Only about 30% of the people surveyed identify as cis, and around 15% describe their orientation as heterosexual, so I’m sure that they definitely face many of the same struggles that the LGBTQIA+ community faces as a whole.

But why would discrimination at large be decreasing, except for intersex people? Maybe they’re feeling more empowered to come out, and people don’t know how to react?
I would even expect, if anything, that bigots would be more understanding of someone for whom Nature made life “visibly” harder, but maybe I’m just naive.

In any case, it doesn’t seem like the study sheds enough light on this, hopefully more studies will follow so that we can find a way to do better.

missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de on 18 Sep 08:09 collapse

discrimination against trans people is increasing in most of the world.

intersex people often look trans, and often are trans.

Matriks404@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 08:35 collapse

I don’t understand why people just don’t mind their own business.