206. The Intersex Lie: Róisín Michaux on How Queer Theory Hijacked a Rare Medical Condition

206. The Intersex Lie: Róisín Michaux on How Queer Theory Hijacked a Rare Medical Condition

From You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist by Stephanie Winn

March 23, 2026 · 1h 44m

About this episode

Róisín Michaux discusses the intersection of intersex activism and queer theory within the context of the transgender movement and its implications for women's rights and children's health.

Writer Róisín Michaux investigates women's rights and free speech in the context of the transgender movement. Róisín brings a uniquely European lens to her research, exposing how LGBTIQ activist organizations in Europe are heavily state-funded — unlike the U.S., where private foundations like the Rockefellers and Ford Foundation dominate — and how this funding pipeline has turbocharged some of the most extreme gender ideology we're seeing today. We dig deep into intersex activism: what it actually is, who's behind it, and why it matters for parents navigating the gender craze with their children. Róisín explains the crucial distinction between people with genuine disorders of sexual development (DSDs) — rare, named medical conditions like congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), Turner syndrome, and complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (CAIS) — and the largely queer-theory-driven "intersex identity" movement that has very little to do with medicine and everything to do with dismantling the sex binary. We also explore the history of brain sex research, how trans activists strategically abandoned the science when it stopped serving them, and how self-ID legislation spread from…

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