Contro-natura? Corpi intersex e movimenti anti-gender tra essenzialismo e costruzionismo

Between the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century - and more convincingly in the last decade - the neo-Catholic movements and the right-wing parties found convergence in the discourses against the so-called “gender theory”. The anti-gender discourse has mainly focused on issues such as education to differences and against gender stereotypes in schools, transgenderism, surrogacy, abortion and euthanasia, while the issue of intersex bodies is not so popular. The article aims to reconstruct these sporadic narratives about intersex conditions, by reviewing some articles and speeches by figures who orbit the anti-gender movements. This reconstruction is relevant because the intersex issue can potentially challenge discourses that rely on biological reality to justify sexual binary. If the anti-gender narrative focuses on the dualism of sex because it is “natural”, how does it deal with the reality of the bodies of intersex people who, with their very existence, undermine this dualism? Starting from the discourses on intersex bodies, the article highlights contradictions and logical fallacies of the positions that justify conservative and discriminatory political positions through biological determinism.