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metanarrates · 11 months ago

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I haven't seen a lot of coverage in the news about this, but my state has just advanced legislation on a bill that would criminalize trans bathroom use in publicly owned buildings. this could mean up to 6 months in jail and up to $1000 in fees for those convicted.

most alarming aspects of this bill:

-"publicly owned buildings" include airports, schools, libraries, government offices, some hospitals, and most terrifyingly AND explicitly within the bill, domestic violence shelters and rape crisis facilities. transgender people, who are estimated to be almost 4 times more likely to be victims of violent crimes than cisgender people, could become criminalized in the very spaces they seek out to shelter from abuse.

-on that note, the bill potentially threatens federal funding of already-underfunded domestic violence and sexual assault facilities. to recieve federal grants, facilities are required to follow nondiscrimination laws. this law could place the facilities in danger of losing the grants they rely on. this is severely going to impact victims' abilities to access critically needed services.

-the bill legally defines "sex" in a way that has a lot of potential impact across state legislature. according to the bill’s text, HB 257 would legally define a female as “an individual whose biological reproductive system is of the general type that functions in a way that could produce ova,” and a male as “an individual whose biological reproductive system is of the general type that functions to fertilize the ova of a female.” this could effectively end the state's legal recognition of trans people.

-the bill demands that trans people who DO use bathrooms in publicly owned buildings must have undergone both gender reassignment surgery and have had their birth certificate changed. this has several issues, obviously, but the biggest one I want to highlight is that this opens the door to potential genital inspection by law enforcement if someone is accused of being transgender in a bathroom. in addition to any other indignities suffered by being harassed by cops when trying to use the restroom, it is completely possible for law enforcement to now demand to see whether someone's genitals are in compliance with these laws. it's an unconscionable and humiliating invasion of privacy.

-the bill requires trans students to develop a "privacy plan" with their school in order to arrange access to unisex spaces. if unisex bathrooms are unavailable, the student can be granted access to a sex-designated space “through staggered scheduling or another policy provision that provides for temporary private access.”

-the bill allows the state’s attorney general to impose a fine of up to $10,000 per day on local governments that don’t enforce the bill. in essence, any government that isn't sufficiently committed to enforcing these draconian laws may face massive fines until they have reached the attorney general's standard of enforcement.

this is one of the most unbelievably severe anti-trans laws that have ever been proposed in the united states. it would effectively ban trans people from participating in public life, harm nearly every single victim of domestic violence and sexual assault who seeks services in the state, enforce criminality on random trans people in bathrooms, and open every single person who could be potentially accused of being trans up to a wave of harassment and discrimination from both private citizens and law enforcement. I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that this law would literally force me and my transfemme fiancee to flee this state.

the law's been fast tracked to an insane degree through the legislature. similarly to the anti-dei bill currently making its way through, it's only been a week since it was introduced, and it's already passed the house, and is now up for vote in the senate. if it passes both sets of votes, the only thing left in its way is the governor's decision to veto.

please share this post. make as much noise as you can. if you live in utah, please call and email your district senator as soon as possible. it doesn't matter how late you see this. the bill is up for vote this week (1/23/24 at the time of writing) and we need to do whatever we physically can to protest its passing. we've already moved past the opportunity for public comment on the bill, but a few organizations have called for a rally at the capitol steps on thursday (1/25/24) at noon. if you are in the salt lake area or are able to make it there, please consider attending. wear a mask and bring a sign. we are stronger together.

#narrates #signal boost #please tag anyone you can think of with a large platform in this post. we need this to spread asap

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eileenguy · 2 years ago

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i also found this extremely sorry and bad faith text post from them. i hate how this implies that trans feminists don't exist in non-western countries, that trans women haven't been an integral part of third world feminism, that non-binary boils down to femme presenting afabs and masc presenting amabs and that non binary transfemmes don't exist, AND that trans men don't have male privilege, among many other things. block this weirdo and actually engage with feminist and trans feminist texts please.

i didnt make that ask rebloggable because i didn’t want to be The Guy but then i remembered im a grown ass adult and people shouldnt have to play detective to figure out if theyre safe. so here are @havingrevelations posts from last night and i think they speak for themself here but thats gonna be full mask-off transmisogyny. would recommend blocking and moving on.

#blocklist #terf blocklist #also like why are we pretending that trans wlws havent talked extensively about how they're always expected to 'top' during sex w cis #female partners or 'afab' partners. and that all trans women have penises. and that trans women haven't talked abt being expected to give #their cis female spouses children and how through a lot of surgeries hrt trans women can lose fertility and how sometimes that just isnt #possible and like ugh. please be normal about trans femmes and trans women pls.#transmisogyny tw

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nonbinarywannabepreggo · 3 months ago

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Today, he bred me twice. Once I arrived my job, I couldn't help myself. It was 4am, and he looked so vulnerable sleeping. I woke him up and told him he should make sure to fertilize me. He dragged me to the bathroom and fucked me in the floor, like a cheap whore. As I was exausted from my 10:30 hours shift, everything was hurting me, but I knew that it was my duty to take his cock and make sure his sperm were inside me, trying to turn me into a mommy.

Later, next to lunch time, we got a little bit of time to ourselves. It was mind blowing, plowing me so hard and deep. He bottomed out so much inside, his cum was so thick and his cock so hard. Ropes of jizz inside my very unprotected fertile female pussy. We have to make sure his swimmers are always inside me, so I'll get knocked up before the IUD becomes effective. At this point, I'm not even ashamed of being thrilled by the idea of motherhood being forced upon me. I'm even hopeful that my boobs will grow a little and I'll be able to breastfeed, like a woman should. I want to be ruined for his pleasure, having my identity exposed. It is so hot to be on his mercy like that.

Today he said again he believes I'm already pregnant, but in the early stages when the tests won't work, because I've been very horny, emotional, nauseous and hungry at the same time. I love when he caress my belly possessively and tells me I have no option but give him babies. I love when he dumps his heavy load and finger it all inside, making sure to mark his territory and make me cum so the chances of impregnation are bigger. This is my duty as a human female: to be bred unprotected and serve my owner by making him a papa.

Condoms, birth control, pulling out... That's not what nature intended. I need to return to my natural state: serving my soon to be baby daddy. And it his duty as a real man to impregnate me and put me in my place as his female cumdump and incubator. No matter if you're gay or not: breeding is only natural, and even he can't resist the desire to make me his property, ruining all those years of HRT, transfeminism and surgeries.

There's no vision like his cum-covered cock, leaving my pussy dripping and possibly knocked up

#detrans kink #ftm breeding #ftm impregnation #ftm pregnancy #misgender kink #ftm sub #trans breeding #breeding k1nk #forced feminized #orientation play #patriarchy kink

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fozmeadows · 4 months ago

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TERFism really is just white beauty politics in a pseudo-feminist hat, because there's simply no escaping the fact that every concern-trolling argument TERFs make against transition, and particularly towards trans men, boils down to the worst thing you can be is an ugly woman, where "ugly" is code for "insufficiently young, white and/or traditionally feminine."

The ridiculing of trans women, for instance, centers disgust at the idea of anyone with traditionally "masculine" features attempting to pass as female, which - as has been well-documented by this point - frequently sees butch women, women of colour, older women, tall women, strong women, and any other woman who doesn't fit this dogwhistle standard of prettiness caught in the crossfire. Masculinity is incompatible with beauty, this logic goes, and all women must be beautiful. Ergo, the more masculine you appear, the less female you are. TERFs, of course, will try to deny their active participation in anything so ragingly unfeminist as policing women's bodies in pursuit of a narrow physical ideal, and yet, as the recent furor over Imane Khalif has roundly shown, this is exactly what they end up doing: an endless reinvention of new and shittier forms of phrenology to explain why this woman or that is not, in fact, really a woman.

Accepting trans women who don't, by conventional standards, pass, means accepting the femininity of women - both cis and trans - who diverge from these beauty standards: who have facial hair or receding hairlines, deep voices or big hands and feet, who are muscular or tall or strong-jawed, who are either incapable or undesirous of pregnancy, or one of a thousand other things we're told (despite the fact that humans are not a strongly dimorphic species) are exclusively masculine traits. But trans women who do pass engender a different terror: the fear that beauty is not an exclusively "feminine" inheritance, such that someone deemed a man might natively posses it and thereby render "real" feminine beauty somehow less special.

And then we have the scaremongering around trans men, which frequently presents as "concern" over, specifically, impressionable girls and young women being tricked into harming their healthy bodies by the nefarious Trans Cabal. That this same concern is never extended to adult women is the giveaway, because adult women are, by this reckoning, inherently less valuable, being neither as pretty nor as fertile as their younger counterparts. It's already too late to prevent their inevitable descent into the ugliness of ageing, and either they're parents already (in which case, their biological purpose has been served, thus rendering their identities past that point moot) or else have been written off as too old for childbearing anyway (which adds to their irrelevance).

Which makes it all the more ironic how many of the stated negatives of transition for trans men dovetails with things the cis female body normally does as it ages and/or postpartum. Long-term binding is decried for the way it causes the breasts to sag or deform and the nipples to enlarge, for instance, when this is exactly what happens as a consequence of pregnancy and breastfeeding. An increase in facial and body hair is common for post-menopausal women, let alone those with PCOS. Plenty of women naturally have deep voices, with many growing raspier regardless with age, while both ageing and childbirth inevitably alter the appearance of genitalia, sometimes radically. Even top surgery, the procedure most maligned as "butchery," has its cis analogues: not only for survivors of breast cancer or those who, due to genetic predisposition towards aggressive forms of it, opt for preventative mastectomies, but those who undergo breast reduction surgery, whether for cosmetic or health reasons - while some women, on yet a third hand, are natively flat-chested.

Taken together, then, what unifies the demonizing fear of trans women and the infantilizing dismissal of trans men by TERFs is an obsession with a specific, youth-and-Eurocentric-based notion of female beauty, where being deemed too masculine in either direction is the disqualifying factor. In TERFlandia, masculinity therefore becomes a synonym for ugliness: trans women can't shed it sufficiently to be counted at any age (unless they pass, which is a prospect too terrifying to countenance), while trans men must be stopped at all costs from embracing it (unless they're already old, in which case they no longer matter). Which is not to say that transphobia more broadly lacks for other avenues of attack; it's just that concern around trans bodies and the necessity of controlling them inevitably circles back to beauty, youth and fertility as the abiding hallmarks of womanhood, and as soon as you point this out, all the other arguments start to unravel.

#TERFism #trans #lgbtq #transition #TERF logic

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drpriya · 10 months ago

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In in vitro fertilization (IVF), ovarian stimulation protocols are tailored to optimize egg production.

Some common protocols include:

GnRH Agonist Long Protocol: Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists are used to suppress natural hormone production, followed by gonadotropin stimulation to induce multiple follicle development.

GnRH Antagonist Protocol: GnRH antagonists are used to prevent premature ovulation without the initial suppression phase, allowing for more flexibility in timing and reducing the risk of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS).

Microdose Flare Protocol: This protocol involves the administration of low doses of GnRH agonist in the early follicular phase to stimulate the release of endogenous gonadotropins.

Luteal Phase Protocol: Gonadotropin stimulation starts in the luteal phase of the preceding menstrual cycle, bypassing the need for down-regulation with GnRH agonists.

Natural Cycle Protocol: In some cases, IVF can be performed in a natural cycle without ovarian stimulation, where only one egg is retrieved.

Minimal Stimulation Protocol: This protocol involves using lower doses of gonadotropins to produce fewer but potentially higher quality eggs, reducing the risk of complications.

The selection of an ovarian stimulation protocol in IVF depends on various factors, including:

Age of the Woman: Younger women typically respond better to ovarian stimulation and may require different protocols compared to older women.

Ovarian Reserve: The quantity and quality of a woman's remaining eggs influence the choice of protocol. Women with diminished ovarian reserve may require different stimulation approaches.

Previous Response to Stimulation: A woman's response to previous ovarian stimulation cycles can guide the selection of a protocol for future cycles.

Body Mass Index (BMI): Women with higher BMI may require different dosages or protocols to optimize ovarian response.

Presence of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS): Women with PCOS may have a different hormonal profile and may require specific protocols tailored to their condition.

Risk of Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (OHSS): Women at higher risk of OHSS may benefit from antagonist protocols or modified stimulation strategies to reduce this risk.

Patient Preferences and Lifestyle Factors: Some patients may prefer protocols with fewer injections or a shorter duration of treatment, while others may prioritize the chance of a higher egg yield.

Clinician's Expertise and Clinic Protocols: Individual clinics and clinicians may have preferences based on their experience and success rates with different protocols.

By considering these factors, fertility specialists can tailor ovarian stimulation protocols to optimize outcomes for each individual patient undergoing IVF.

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intersex-support · 4 months ago

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Intersex Support FAQ

1. What is intersex?

Intersex is an umbrella term that describes people who have variations in sex characteristics that fall outside of the sex binary. This includes variations in genitals, internal reproductive organs like testes and ovaries, chromosomes, secondary sex characteristics, and/or the way that your body produces or responds to hormones. Some examples of intersex variations include AIS, CAH, PCOS, Klinefelters, hypospadias, and more.

The three main factors that define intersex variations are:

Variation in sex characteristics

The variation falls outside of the sex binary and is different from what is considered typical “male” or “female” development. These variations in traits might often be stigmatized and discriminated against for being outside of the sex binary.

This variation is either present from birth or develops spontaneously later in life. It is not caused by transitioning or by something temporary like a medication side effect, tumor, or other medical diagnosis.

(This definition is inspired by InterACT).

2. Does ____ count as intersex?

There are around 40 different intersex variations that are currently known. InterACT”s intersex variation glossary lists out those intersex variations and gives a brief description of each one.

However, we know that isn’t a complete list. People have intersex variations that haven’t been medically researched yet, or might have a rare variation that the intersex community isn’t aware of yet.

There are also some variations that might seem on the border between perisex and intersex. Some types of hormonal or reproductive diagnoses might not have a clear answer on whether they’re intersex or not.

Ultimately, intersex is a social/political identity rather than a strictly medical one. Increased research and changing social attitudes can cause the definition of intersex to expand over time. Regardless of whether someone has a confirmed intersex variation or an “intersex adjacent” diagnosis, if intersex resources are helpful to you, we hope that you continue to use them and act in solidarity with the intersex community.

On this blog, we do include PCOS with hyperandrogenism as part of the intersex community. Check out our PCOS tag for more posts about our reasoning, and PCOS specific resources.

3. Am I intersex?

We cannot diagnose you with an intersex variation over the internet. We can share resources such as the intersex variations glossary, share tips for navigating the medical system, and share information on other non-clinical signs of being intersex.

Some questions to ask yourself that can help you start the process of intersex discovery:

What do my sex traits (genitalia, secondary sex characteristics, hormone levels, etc) look like? Does this seem like it lines up with the “typical” descriptions of those sex traits?

Do I have any information about my birth? Were there any complications? Did doctors do extra testing at birth? Did doctors take me away from my parents for long periods of time? Did it take me longer to have my sex assigned at birth?

What was puberty like for me? Did I have early or late puberty? Did I have to go on hormones to start puberty? Did I have any variations in puberty, such as unexpected breast growth, irregular periods, or other changes? Did I go through puberty at all?

If you’ve tried to have children, are you infertile or struggling with fertility?

Did I have any unexplained surgeries or medical procedures as a child? Was I ever told I had to have organs removed and was told it was because of a cancer risk? Did I have to be on specific medications or hormones throughout my childhood? Did I have to go see a doctor more frequently? Did I go to an endocrinologist or pediatric urologist as a child?

Do I have surgery scars or scar tissue? Do I have more frequent UTIs than typical?

Do I have access to my medical records? Is there records of hormone panels, ultrasounds, physical exams, surgeries, or other medical procedures?

This kind of information can help you start to piece together if you think you might have an intersex variation, or if you think your intersex variation was hidden from you.

If you’re sending in an ask trying to figure out if your symptoms line up with a specific intersex variation, please share as much information as you’re comfortable with so that we can answer with the most helpful resources.

4. Can I self diagnose as intersex?

It’s complicated! Intersex is different from other LGBTQIA identities, in that it’s not only about self determination, but also about our embodied experience in a very specific way. In order to be intersex, you have to have an intersex variation. And there are many intersex variations that can only be confirmed through medical testing, so it’s not something that is easy to self-diagnose.

However, we recognize that the medical system is expensive, discriminatory, and often actively hides information about people’s intersex variations from them. (it wasn’t even until 2006 that the AAP stopped recommending that doctors lie to their patients about intersex status, so many intersex adults were born before that policy change!) Considering all that we know about intersex oppression, curative violence, and medical abuse, it feels incredibly cruel to tell people that they have to force themself through that system in order to seek answers.

So, we understand that there are ways of finding out that you are intersex without having a specific, confirmed, medical diagnosis. Many of us might find out that we’re intersex because we realize that our genitalia visibly looks different, and we can tell that we are intersex, even if we don’t know our specific diagnosis. Others might find out that we’re intersex because of strange discrepancies in our medical record. We might find out through discovering surgery scars on our body. We might go through puberty and realize that we’re developing in an atypical way to our peers. We might do a lot of research into intersex variations and have a pretty good guess into what variation lines up with our experiences. We might have some test results that help us understand we have intersex traits, even if we don’t know our specific diagnosis.

Before self diagnosing, we think it’s important to do thorough research into intersex variations, so that you truly understand what intersex means, what intersex variations exist, and understand how that information applies to yourself. It’s also important to be considerate of how we interact in community spaces, and respect other intersex people's boundaries as you engage in a questioning or diagnosis process.

5. Are intersex people trans?

Some intersex people are trans, and some aren’t. Most intersex people are still assigned a gender at birth, and many intersex people who are raised as one gender and then later identify as another gender identify with the label trans. Intersex people can be cis or trans just like any other group of people.

Many intersex people have complicated relationships with gender, and don’t feel like labels like cis or trans really fit their experiences. For this reason, terms like intergender and ipsogender were coined.

6. Are intersex people LGBTQIA?

It’s complicated! The “I” in LGBTQIA stands for intersex. Intersex history is intertwined with other parts of queer history. For example, the very first protest for intersex people in the United States was organized by Hermaphrodites with Attitude and Transexual Menace. There are intersex inclusive versions of community pride flags. Many intersex people view their intersex identity as a queer identity. Intersex oppression overlaps in many ways with homophobia and transphobia.

However, not all intersex people think that intersex should be included in the LGBTQIA community. Sometimes this is for bigoted reasons, with intersex radfems who use this stance as a way to be transphobic. But there are also intersex people who think that the “I” should only be included in the acronym when intersex people are actually meaningfully being included in queer spaces and resources. Many of us feel frustrated when people put “LGBTQIA” on a resource but then don’t actually have any intersex specific information in those resources.

In general, this is an ongoing intracommunity discussion where we don’t have a consensus.

7. Are intersex people disabled?

It’s complicated! Intersex is an umbrella term for many different experiences, and there is not one universal intersex experience. Some intersex people identify as disabled. Some intersex people do not.

Many intersex variations do cause disabling impacts in our bodies and lives. Some intersex variations are comorbid with other health conditions. Other intersex people become disabled because of violent normalizing interventions we’ve survived, such as forced surgery or other types of medical abuse.

Intersex people are also impacted by many of the same structures of oppression that harm disabled people. Both intersex people and disabled people are harmed by ableism. Both intersex people and disabled people are harmed by pathologization. Both intersex people and disabled people are harmed by curative violence.

In the book Cripping Intersex, Celeste Orr explores all these concepts and creates something called “intersex is/and/as/with disability,” which is a model to think about all these different and sometimes conflicting relationships with disability. Some intersex people might identify directly as disabled. Others might sometimes think about the way that intersex is treated as a disability. Other intersex people might think about intersex and disability as a way to have solidarity. All of these relationships with disability are meaningful parts of the intersex community.

8. What is intersex oppression/intersexism/interphobia/compulsory dyadism?

Intersex people face a lot of oppression in many ways in society. At the core, intersex oppression relies on the idea that the only acceptable sex traits are sex traits that fit into the sex binary. Intersex oppression relies on mythical ideas of the “ideal male or female” body, where someone's chromosomes perfectly line up with their genitalia and internal reproductive organs, with perfectly normal hormone levels and perfect secondary sex characteristics that don’t have any variation. When people don’t fit into that “perfect” sex binary, they are seen as less valuable, abnormal, and threatening. There is then a societal pressure to eradicate any traits and people that fall outside of the sex binary, which causes a lot of targeted discrimination of intersex people. This form of oppression is called “compulsory dyadism,” and was coined by Celeste Orr.

Compulsory dyadism is also rooted in, overlaps with, and is the foundation for many other types of oppression. For example, ableism is another form of oppression that creates ways of harming people whose bodies and minds are labeled as less valuable for societally constructed reasons. Check out Talila Lewis’s definition of ableism for more information. Another example is how racialized people are targeted by sex testing policies in sports--both intersex and perisex women of color are consistently targeted by sex testing policies designed to exclude intersex people from sports. Another example is that homophobia and transphobia contribute to why intersex bodies are seen as threats that need to be eradicated--society views existing with intersex sex traits as a slippery slope to growing up as a gay or trans adult. Compulsory dyadism is also at the root of a lot of transphobic rhetoric about how transitioning “ruins” people’s bodies. All these forms of oppression are connected.

There are a lot of ways that compulsory dyadism causes intersex people to be targeted and discriminated against. A huge issue is nonconsensual surgeries at birth, that attempt to “normalize” ambiguous genitalia, remove intersex people’s gonads, and otherwise alter genitalia or internal structures. These surgeries are often referred to as intersex genital mutilation, or IGM. These surgeries do not have any medical necessity, but doctors lobby to continue to be allowed to perform them anyway. These surgeries can sterilize intersex people, cause lifelong trauma, and also cause many disabling medical complications. Alongside IGM, intersex people also face a lot of different types of medical abuse.

Besides curative violence and medical abuse, intersex people also face discrimination in our schools, jobs, and public places. We face legal discrimination in changing our names and sex markers. We face discrimination from institutions like CPS, which often target parents, especially people of color, that refuse to put their children through intersex genital mutilation. Many intersex people survive targeted sexual violence. We have a widespread lack of resources, visibility, and representation. Many people still have prejudiced ideas about intersex people and call us slurs. These are just a few examples of the many way that interphobia/intersexism show up in our lives.

9. What is intersex justice?

Intersex justice is a framework created by intersex activists through the Intersex Justice Project as a way to fight for intersex liberation.

“Intersex justice is a decolonizing framework that affirms the labor of intersex people of color fighting for change across social justice movements. By definition, intersex justice affirms bodily integrity and bodily autonomy as the practice of liberation. Intersex justice is intrinsically tied to justice movements that center race, ability, gender identity & expression, migrant status, and access to sexual & reproductive healthcare. Intersex justice articulates a commitment to these movements as central to its intersectional analysis and praxis. Intersex justice acknowledges the trauma caused by medically unnecessary and nonconsensual cosmetic genital surgeries and addresses the culture of shame, silence and stigma surrounding intersex variations that perpetuate further harm.

The marginalization of intersex people is rooted in colonization and white supremacy. Colonization created a taxonomy of human bodies that privileged typical white male and female bodies, prescribing a gender binary that would ultimately harm atypical black and indigenous bodies. As part of a liberation movement, intersex activists challenge not only the medical establishment, which is often the initial site of harm, but also governments, institutions, legal structures, and sociocultural norms that exclude intersex people. Intersex people should be allowed complete and uninhibited access to obtaining identity documents, exercising their birth and adoption rights, receiving unbiased healthcare, and securing education and employment opportunities that are free from harm and harassment.” (Source: Dr. Mel Michelle Lewis through the Intersex Justice Project.)

There are seven principles to intersex justice:

Informed consent

Reparations

Legal protections

Accountability

Language

Children's rights

Patient-centered healthcare

10. What is intergender?

Intergender is a gender identity for use by intersex people only. It doesn’t have one specific definition-it is used by intersex people to mean a whole variety of things. It’s used to describe the unique ways our intersex experience intersects with and influences our gender. Some people use it as a modifying term, such as calling themselves an intergender man or woman, as a way to explain the way being intersex affects their identity. Other people identify solely as intergender, and have that be their whole gender.

11. What is dyadic/perisex/endosex?

All are words that mean “not intersex.” Different groups will have different preferences on which one they like to use.

12. Is hermaphrodite an offensive term?

Yes. It is an incredibly offensive slur that perisex people should never say. Many intersex people have a very painful history with the slur. Some of us reclaim the term, which can be an important act of healing and celebration for us.

12. Can perisex people follow?

Feel free, but understand that questions by intersex people are prioritized! Anyone is welcome to follow.

13. I’m writing a character who’s intersex…

Check out this post: https://trans-axolotl.tumblr.com/post/188153640308/intersex-representation. If you’re writing about intersex people for a paid project, you should pay an intersex person to act as a sensitivity reader before publishing.

Check out our Resources and Intersex Organizations pages as well!

#faq #intersex #actually intersex #actuallyintersex #lgbtqia #intersexism #disability #intersex resources #you can also find this post as one of our pages at intersex.support.tumblr.com/faq

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shubhragoyal · 1 year ago

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Empowering Womens Health Insights from Leading Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Women's health is essential to overall well-being and requires specific attention. Doctors specializing in obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) offer comprehensive medical treatment specifically catered to women's requirements. In this article, we'll look at OB/GYN physicians' crucial role in strengthening women's health and examine the top 10 reasons that make Dr. Shubhra Goyal unique in her region.

So, let’s get started!

The Role of Obstetricians and Gynecologists!

Gynecologists and obstetricians are women's health experts with the education and experience to deal with all facets of female health, from adolescence through menopause. They are adept at offering a variety of treatments, including gynecological care, reproductive system management, and prenatal care. Let's examine the main areas of expertise for OB/GYN specialists in more detail:

Obstetricians and gynecologists are essential throughout pregnancy. They monitor the mother's and the growing baby's health while providing direction and support during this life-changing experience.

Gynecological Services - They include regular gynecological examinations, screenings, and treatments for infections, irregular menstruation, and pelvic discomfort.

Maternal Healthcare Providers - Preconception counseling through postpartum treatment are all included in the broad category of maternal healthcare services. OB/GYN physicians guarantee a safe and healthy pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum period.

Reproductive System Specialists - PCOS, endometriosis, and fibroids are among the problems they identify and treat that impact the female reproductive system.

Prenatal Care Physicians - They play a crucial part in ensuring a healthy pregnancy by keeping track of the health of pregnant women and their unborn children.

Doctors specializing in menstrual health - OB/GYN specialists can alleviate painful periods and excessive bleeding through various surgeries and therapies.

Obstetrics and Gynecology Specialists - With significant training in these fields, they provide a comprehensive approach to women's health that addresses all phases of life.

Maternity Care Experts - OB/GYN physicians offer skilled care throughout labor and delivery, guaranteeing a happy and safe birthing experience.

Gynecologic Surgeries - They carry out surgical operations, such as hysterectomies or minimally invasive procedures, when required to treat disorders like uterine fibroids or endometrial problems.

Moving ahead, let’s discuss,

Empowering Women's Health: The Role of OB/GYN Doctors

Women's health empowerment includes identifying and treating medical disorders and educating and assisting women in making decisions about their health. OB/GYN physicians assist their patients in navigating the complexity of female health by acting as their champions. They help with empowerment in the following ways:

Patient-Centered Care - OB/GYN practitioners use a patient-centered approach to delivering care, considering each woman's particular requirements, preferences, and objectives.

Women are empowered to make decisions through education and counseling on their bodies, reproductive health, and contraceptive alternatives.

Preventive Care - For the early identification and prevention of illnesses, routine check-ups and screenings are crucial. Obstetricians and gynecologists stress the value of preventative care.

Emotional Support - Women's health is not just physical; it's emotional, too. OB/GYN doctors offer emotional support during challenging times like infertility struggles or pregnancy complications.

Advocacy for Women's Rights - Many OB/GYN doctors are passionate advocates for women's rights, including access to secured and legal abortion, contraception, and comprehensive healthcare.

Read More: https://www.drshubhragoyal.com/welcome/blogs/empowering-womens-health-insights-from-leading-obstetricians-and-gynecologists

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