Quote Originally Posted by whiskeybravo View Post
Yes, it is, no matter how much you don't want it to be. Some disfigured middle ground doesn't make a new gender. People have and will continue to be born with deformities, it doesn't make them "non-human".
And yet here you are, dehumanizing people by referring to them as a "disfigured middle ground".

Quote Originally Posted by linay View Post
I didn't say it was. Being short isn't a disease either, but there are still rules about height in certain occasions. Where rules regarding sex is put in place, being intersex shouldn't give you any additional right to choose. In all other cases, it doesn't matter. It is as far as the normative effect of sexual difference is concerned: reproduction. There is no third sex for humans from which a new human individual can be conceived.
It gives you every right to choose. It's your body, not a doctor's who thinks hacking body parts off an infant who has no say in the matter is somehow sane. This is how you ruin someone's life before they're even given a chance.

Stop relying on your high school biology education. Science evolves as we learn more.