#head in my hands. just dumping out some thoughts thatve been floating around in my head recently

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(my experience) being intersex is like. im not cis bc i dont identify with my agab the way cis people do but im not trans bc i dont not identify with it. terms like agab and afab and amab are ones we came up with and i didnt even know that until a few months ago. at pride this year the only intersex flags i saw were on the few inclusivity flags that actually included us (and i saw so many more that didnt). i see so many posts talking about how people like seeing facial hair and happy trails on women and dont get me wrong, trans women absolutely deserve this love and positivity but the wording of the posts always implies that afab women dont have these things (but i do). the only reason pcos isnt definitively considered an intersex condition is bc then too many people would be intersex. i will always live with the astonishment from other kids that my 12/13-year-old self was 'hairier than their dads' and the bullying that came with it. doctors always fixate on getting rid of my body hair instead of listening to my actual health concerns. im tired