On these dates, Pride is celebrated and everybody follows even with empty policies or even directly with abridged bills presented as successful new laws. These bills might satisfy the cismonosexual part of the society, but they throw under the bus some collectives that they systematically invisibilize and for which I have found a common denominator: the binarizing oppression.
As far as I’ve been able to distinguish, the binarizing oppression may manifest itself either on the implied person themself or on the imposed expectations of attraction. On the first side, one can find the oppression by sexual features and also by gender identity. On the other side, we find the mandatoriness of attraction and its restriction to a single gender. I shall survey these 4 aspects in the following paragraphs.
Despite certain orange buses travel around Spain speaking of «the biology» and even there are congresswomen ready to lecture prescribing how nature is in order to align with their ideology, nature is stubborn and not dichotomic. Intersexuality does exist and it shows many more kinds of manifestations than the 2 classic sexes. It does not only exist, but it has even been recognized form the Antiquity, under the now-obsolete label of «hermaphrodite» or others showing a clear admission of sexual features outside the classic dichotomy.
Intersex people are systematically subject to surgeries and hormonations against their will and under the lie to their parents, precisely the same treatments that are denied to trans people under informed consent. I think this is the harshest face of this oppression but, I don’t belong to this minority as far as I know, I would prefer that they speak for themselves. I only want to remark the incongruence of the Spanish government’s binarizing bill forcing to register the sex of a newborn when it’s already a baby, but denying changing such a register to teenagers that know for sure, breaking the doctrine of the highest courts of law.
Distinguishing accurately sex and gender, the binarizing oppession is not satisfied with mutilating the bodies out of its cabons, but it also assigns a gender to either sex in its dichotomy and fiercely attacks, beginning with invisibilization, any identity or gender expression that falls out of the two dichotomically assigned. They admit as second-class people the binary trans people, since they chose one of their two predefined genders, but non-binary are several ranks below since we break the scheme.
Regardless the insistence of the government, there will be no real self-determination of gender without non-binary options. And what they call self-determination in their bill reminds more the obstructions to abortion than any other matter. Fighting here is where I would want to see those who call themselves feminists as a cover of their transphobia.
The other side of the coin of binarizing oppression affects the population segments a person may be attracted by. As a beginning, for the binarizing oppression, you must like either meat or fish. The attraction is thus mandatory and directed to a specific gender. This attraction must be indissolubly sexual and romantic, condemning to invisibility asexuals and aromantics, who are not even mentioned in the bill, opening the door to conversion pseudo-therapies.
But, in the same way that attraction is mandatory for the binarizing oppression, it must be also directed to a single gender, binary, of course. This splits heterosexuality as first-class and homosexuality as second-class, but both monosexual and free of binarizing oppression. This monosexism, apart of invisibilizing asexuals and aromantics, attacks all the pluri identities, regardless their prefix (bi,pan, etc.) and the suffix applicable to the kind of attraction involved.
Therefore, intersex, non-binaries, aces, aros and pluris are in a third or fourth rank situation due to this binarizing oppression. If anybody has a comment, particularly on any ultraminority I had omitted, let me know. I am open to suggestions, since this step is only the first.