#igm

[atlantes96]

🚩David Cano Lemus 🇬🇹

📰 14.12.24

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[antiterf]

Doctors saying that it's best for surgery on intersex people to be done in infancy is not very convincing to someone who had surgery in infancy.

Like, I was told as a teen by my pediatric podiatrist that you can only predict so much on how the surgery will hold up in the future because your body grows and changes.

The surgeon I had was the same one who invented the foot brace that was tried to correct my club foot before surgery.

That brace ^

And I'm pointing that out to show that even an amazing doctor who pushes to make medicine better still couldn't fix clubfoot to where it was like it was never there surgically. There aren't many long term studies on surgically corrected club foot, but here's one of them

For the point of still not fitting a normal foot.

And so lack of flexibility, less sensitivity, scar pain, and not looking "normal" is all sort of standard. Some people have additional surgeries, but I did not. I will, but it's not for correction and instead for OA treatment.

So then I look back to IGM, how much sensitivity matters there, that they're usually purely cosmetic, and going "yeah this should be done in infancy when the body grows and changes, especially in this area during puberty" and its such a leap in logic.

Obviously, they see it as best in childhood because it's only done to make someone fit into the societal norm, but saying it with that urgency seems like they're talking about results regarding the body part itself. My entire childhood current and situation kind of goes against that, along with many others.

[tallerthantale]

A review came out recently on the research of the very much ongoing practice of "sex-normalizing" surgeries on intersex children. The review looks over how various research teams evaluated the outcomes of the practice. Dozens recoded the surgeon's opinion on how aesthetically pleasing the result looked, with no objective guidelines. Zero evaluated the quality of life of the children. Not a single study.

Intersex IGM is still happening worldwide and the people studying how 'successful' it is aren't even bothering to measure quality of life outcomes for the kids. It's that irrelevant to them.

The linked review itself is critical of the research not measuring quality of life, and of the "sex-normalizing" practices broadly.

[ghxst-system]

ill never get to fully know myself or my body because of what they did

but sure, go ahead and walk all over me because u dont like it when people point out ur intersexism

[battytucute]

so not only did i possibly go thru igm, but i may actually have cah like i thought and it was hid from me.

great. (sarcasm)

[intersex-questions]

tw// IGM

Hey, I have a question. Is IGM only done to babies, or can they be done after the child has gotten older?

Also, is it possible for IGM to happen(as a baby) but not be put on their medical book? Like the doctor does the surgery, then writes down that their genitals are male/female.

IGM (intersex genital mutilation) absolutely can and does happen to individuals older than babies. It happens to children, teenagers, and adults. Many individuals undergo "corrective" surgery to their genitalia under the guise of being told it is medically necessary, they'll be infertile otherwise, they can't have sex otherwise, and more.

And yes, that is possible. Although it shouldn't happen, doctors absolutely can and do medical procedures or similar things without listing them or being explicit about what they are. This is medical malpractice, but it does happen. And, often when things like IGM do happen to babies, they don't share the real/true/actual reason behind the mutilation/surgery and instead say it is medically necessary.

[atlantes96]

💣 Javier @monteroo_11 (insta) 1.1.25

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[the-life-of-a-herm]

No, google, I don't want to see babies going through IGM.

[trans-intersex-confessions]

Tw IGM

Intersex transfem culture is being assumed to be an afab with PCOS no matter what you do (and don't even get me started on fully rejecting my AGAB and getting called a cisgender invader because I refuse to disclose my genitals at birth other than "they were ambiguous and operated on without my consent" )

Yes this!

No hate to anyone with PCOS or course but the way people have started to see every single intersex person ever as having that specific condition when there's various other ones.

[masherbrum]

Composite of French IGN, Swiss Swisstopo and Italian IGM topo maps at FR-CH-IT tripoint.

From Skitourenguru. Currently they can only use the Swiss one though, because the French license is just too cryptic and the Italians don't answer their open data request (even though EU law basically requires them to grant permission...).

[prententiousjackal]

10th day of intersex

At what time could someone learn that they or someone else is intersex?

Intersex could hypothetically be known before conception if you genetically engineered or selected for someone as such. But that doesn't (legally) happen in humans and is only allowed for animals.

Intersex conditions could be found during pregnancy with a karyotype test or screening for different intersex related genes. This can lead to the selective abortion and genocide of intersex people. Doctors may exaggerate risks based on their biased schooling serving a perisex-normative standard.

Intersex conditions could be found immediately after birth. These conditions include ambiguous genitals. Again, doctors may exaggerate risks and coerce parents to perform unnecessary genital surgeries that are only for aesthetic purposes. (That's not to say all surgeries are bad. If a child is born without an exit for urine or feces, then some sort of hole being made is necessary.) Parents may then be told to hide all knowledge of the surgery from their child.

Some intersex conditions discovered at birth may call for the child to have repeated medications or repeated appointments to the doctor. Children can be lied to about the nature of their medication or appointments. These children might go until teenage years or adulthood before finding out the truth. Or they could have parents who tell their children about their bodies as their children ask questions, need the information or relevant conversations or situations arise.

Some intersex conditions, like hormonal conditions, go undiscovered until the time of puberty where an absence of puberty or unexpected puberty happens.

Some intersex conditions may go unnoticed until the individual tries to have a child and discovers their intersex condition as the reason for their infertility.

Some intersex conditions go unnoticed until after the individual dies and coroners or forensic scientists discover their condition.

And some conditions are never known at all.

[frankfurtphoto]

Untermainkai, Bahnhofsviertel, 2022

[battytucute]

the feeling when u see ur birth records only to see evidence of possible igm…

[atlantes96]

Alejandro @weidansilva (insta)

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[atlantes96]

🚩 Marcel Vinnicius 🇧🇷

📰 14.12.24

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