What is unnecessary gendered?

Idrunkenlysignedup@beehaw.org to AskBeehaw@beehaw.org – 4 points –

I was watching pro golf coverage on the news and it seems so odd that men and women compete separately - same goes with pro bowling. Just seems weird to me that a game of skill is gendered when you can't even raise an argument that someone might have an advantage because of what's between their legs.

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Children are unnecessarily gendered! People should give them the opportunity to explorer their own relationship with gender without being assigned one.

Just heard an interview with a person who is intersex (meaning they were born with DNA and physical characteristics that don't match). Intersex people are also caught in all the anti-trans legislation. The quote that stood out the most to me:

I think society understands at this point that sexuality is a spectrum. Some people are gay. Some are straight. A lot are in between. And society is also starting to understand that gender is a spectrum, that you're not just a man or a woman, but there's a lot in between there, too. What society hasn't quite learned yet is that sex is also a spectrum. You're not only male or female. Two percent of the world is born somewhere in between those two poles on that spectrum. src

Intersex people are also caught in all the anti-trans legislation.

That's something I wasn't aware of (and have the priviledge not to think about) - do you happen to know more about how they are impacted, or any good resources for reading up on it?

Just instinctually, it sounds like a conundrum for all anti-transgender legal 'logic'. Those people are biologically not exclusively male or female (to my understanding, corrections welcome), so which part of "you have to be your rEaL gender" applies to them? Or is being born intersex just intrinsically criminal?