#intersexphobia tw

[uncanny-tranny]

I've taken a step back, but what's been bothering me is how people only engaged with trump's new sex assignment legislation as a joke.

No, the government will not be defining perisex cis men as women.

But you know who will be affected? Trans people. Intersex people. And that's the point. The cruelty is the point.

I just wish people would stop treating legislation that negatively affects us as a joke first and foremost, because it keeps happening. At this point, I'm inclined to believe that the actual reason some of y'all can never take our pain seriously is because you don't care.

[oh-mother-fucket]

people just don't wwant to face the reality that cis perisex bigots firmly believve in a right and wwrong wway to perform masculinity/femininity. if you're a perisex afab, you can't havve a beard bc you're performing masculinity wwhen you "should" be performing femininity. if you're a perisex amab, you can't wwear a dress bc you're performing femininity wwhen you "should" be performing masculinity.

you cant fuckin wwin.

[brettdoesdiscourse]

Just as an unfriendly reminder. The anti trans laws that are prohibiting trans youth from accessing gender-affirming care? They've made an exception for doctors performing "sex-affirming" surgery on literal babies to reinforce the gender binary.

A trans teenager cannot access life-saving hormone therapy, but doctors can make the decision to perform surgery on intersex infants to make them fit neatly into a box.

[butchbarbieagainstterfs]

Transphobes forgot what a sperm donor is

They're making stuff up about Caster and pretending to care about the black women she beat and all those "disadvantaged XX women"

I hope Caster and her wife sue these people or something

Ah so they’re using the whole “oNly A MaN anD a WomAn cOulD EvEr haVe A bAby ToGetHeR!! wHat Do yOu mEan IVF iS a ThinG???” homophobic talking point. Unsurprising.

[inter-sex]

Could someone please report @/cookierunkid ..? They're reblogging a lot of my posts with intersexism :( I already blocked them but somehow they kept reblogging...?

Also..friendly reminder that the person running this account is a mentally disabled 15 year old..we're not good with being insulted..

[rebellum]

Intersex people: yeah because my sex doesn't fit into a neat binary, it's been reassigned, and I had "corrective" genital surgery as a child, my relationship to sex is complex. Because of this I identify as FTMTF or MTFTM. I've spent my entire life in a state of gender and sex transition.

Perisex trans people: oh so you want me to die? You want me to die so you can spit on my grave?

[lemonine]

might delete this post later but its 3am and i keep overthinking this so im just gonna ramble here about the seasonally appropriate topic of family members saying shitty things

so we were watching tv and there was this show on by this tv person who happens to be intersex. and my mom made this comment using their deadname so i was like. no mom theyre called [name]. theyve been called that for a few years now.

so my mom goes "but isnt her name just [deadname]?"

no mom. also its they not she. they use neutral pronouns.

and then she starts complaining because thats too hard and theyre all going a bit far with the pronoun business and then my sister chimes in to say hen/hun isnt grammatically correct

and then i get mad! and i tell them to say it right because even if its a person on tv, you should still be respectful and use the right name and right pronouns. my mom wouldnt like it if i suddenly started calling her by her full name right? or if i used 'he' to refer to her right? youre supposed to try to be nice. and at least Try to get it right.

but now im suddenly the LGBTQIA police and being too difficult and now were arguing and she keeps claiming "No i dont have anything against trans people! you can still bring your trans friends home with you because theres no way i would say anything bad about them!" (ignoring that time my friend came to pick me up and they were like Haha shes definitely a girl because she cant park)

and at this point i get upset and i know im not acting very nice or kind anymore but i just. Dont understand. why people always act like its Too Hard. no. fuck that. skill issue. just do it, even if you mess up sometimes. just Try.

and like. when im at a family birthday and my uncles start to complain about woke or something. i just go hide out in the kitchen for a while until that conversation is over. and i roll my eyes but im not gonna argue with em bc i know i wont win and i only see em like once a year anyway so im like. whatever.

but with my mom... i spend every day with her... and its always such a disappointment... she says its just her opinion and i should respect opinions but i dont feel like "im not gonna treat people with respect" is an opinion thats good or valid. its just mean. and then i try to rationalize it by going okay but theres a generation gap and shes just old but that doesnt make me feel any better. bc even a 5 year old can understand that you have to be nice to people and call them by their right names

idk man its not the first time this kind of stuff happens but it always makes me so sad. and mad. and then i turn into the most crabby person on planet earth so my arguments dont even sound valid anymore bc i cant phrase them in a nice way.

anyway uhhhh sorry about all that. if anyone knows how to deal with this id like to hear your thoughts but otherwise id like to send my hugs to all the people that have to deal with family saying dumb shit at thanksgiving/christmas dinners. stay strong pals

[thatonegaybrit]

; hullo !! Shoutout to:

men who take estrogen

women who take testosterone

men who take testosterone

women who take estrogen

intersex people who take estrogen

intersex people who take testosterone

intersex people who take neither ( but ppl always assume " you must take one or the other right ?? " )

transmen who don't take anything

transwomen who don't take anything

transmen who've had top surgery

transmen who haven't had top surgery

transmen who want top surgery but can't / are waiting

transwomen who've gotten implants

transwomen who haven't gotten implants

transwomen who want implants but can't / are waiting

transwomen who's boobs grew naturally on E

intersex people who have beards and boobs

intersex people who are " visibly / obviously intersex "

intersex people who aren't " visibly / obviously intersex "

intersex people who have taken HRT willingly

intersex people who were forced into taking HRT and now have trauma around it and refuse to take HRT / don't want to take HRT

intersex people who were forced into taking HRT and now have trauma around it but still take / want to take HRT

enbies who take testosterone

enbies who take estrogen

enbies who take neither

nonbinary intersex people

intersex people who don't identify as non-binary / are smth else

trans men who shave

trans women who don't shave

intersex people who have been rejected from queer spaces / felt unsafe in queer spaces

transmen who have been rejected from queer spaces / felt unsafe in queer spaces

transwomen who have been rejected from queer spaces / felt unsafe in queer spaces

intersex people who don't like it / its being used on them ( due to trauma or not )

intersex people who do like it / its being used on them ( whether they have trauma about it or not )

trans people who don't like it / its being used on them ( due to trauma or not )

trans people who do like it / its being used on them ( whether they have trauma about it or not )

transmascs / transfems who don't identify as a man / woman

transmascs who identify as women / fem-aligned / non-binary

transfems who identify as men / masc-aligned / non-binary

; y'all and your experiences aren't included much I find, and I think it's really important to do so since you're a part of the queer community as much as anyone else is. And since we are queer, there's no reason we should have to fit into tiny boxes or be excluded for " not making sense " etc. Love all of you + the ones not on this list !! /gen

[theoihalioistuff]

He is a hermaphrodite in some esoteric contexts, including the Orphic Hymns, his female half is called Misa and there’s also art of him that exists with breasts (not moobs).

“my most dread mother, whom death eventually carried away” strongly reminds me of the version of Dionysus that’s the son of Persephone (the child doesn’t seem to be referring to its human mother in context).

True that there’s no identical sort of “incarnation” stories with two mortal parents I can think of, but irt Dionysus, he was born multiple times in myth so it’s not a huge conceptual leap imo

I didn't know about Misa, that's cool, I'll look them up. I still believe the text isn't referring to Dionysos though, but I can appreciate the similarities. If you want a detailed discussion on hermaphrodites in Phlegon's tales (and broadly a discussion of intersex people in antiquity) see Between the monstrous and the Divine: Hermaphrodites in Phlegon of Tralles' Mirabilia by Julia Doroszewska (here)

The rundown: "Androgyny occupies two poles of the sacred. [As] pure concept, pure vision of the mind, it appears charged with the highest values. Fulfilled in a being of flesh and blood, it is a monstrosity, and nothing more. It attests the wrath of the gods against the group that had this misfortune to reveal it. The unfortunates who represent the divine wrath are removed as soon as possible.” (Hermaphroditea, Recherches sur l'être double promoteur de la fertilité dans le monde antique – Marie Delcourt)

[jackkatzz]

Coffee anon again, what kind of crap are people sending you man? You seem so chill, why do people have to be rude??

Ah well.. I get a variety of rude things from anons. Here I'll post a screenshot of a few that have been sitting for quite some time now.

*TW for transphobia and intersex phobia as well as general rude language and behavior

It's why I had shut the anon feature off for awhile ^^;;

[existennialmemes]

Holding aside that, that is observably not how biology works, what's especially hilarious is that this isn't even true. We have no idea what Imane's chromosomes are nor the criteria Russia disqualified her over (after having certified her gender several years in a row beforehand) because what they disqualified her over recently has never been released.

But you heard something you wanted to believe because it suits your bigotry and you just ran with it, not caring if it was true or not, because your ilk never cares about facts or biology.

You only care about perpetuating your own hatred. You're a sad lot, deeply dedicated to misogyny and racism, because that's the heart of your entire ideology.

Now be gone, bigot. Into The Void with you.

Apparently Rowling hasn't tweeted since her cyber bullying meltdown, and I'm thinking that might be related to Imane Khelif's lawsuit, and now I'm wondering if we can give her an additional gold medal for being the first person to ever get JK to finally shut the fuck up.

[butchbarbieagainstterfs]

I got this ask on my sideblog for anti TERF stuff and I felt you might "appreciate" (/sarcasm) the intersexism and ableism

I’m intersex and don’t produce ova or sperm. I was literally born infertile because I was born without ovaries, which means no ova. Idk why they spout these lies like it’s scientific fact lmfao, when they’re literally wrong.

And yeah they throw around that r word so much, it’s beyond repulsive

[confessions-official]

[TW for abuse; misogyny; slutshaming; transphobia; biphobia; intersexphobia]

I dated a woman because I thought I wouldn’t have to deal with the abuse, the cheating, the possessiveness and the slutshaming. I was raised to believe that all women were like sisters and wouldn’t do this to each other.

Instead, my girlfriend Constantly compares me to other girls. I’m intersex, so I’m very androgynous looking and she talks about how she wish she had a girlfriend who had big boobs and was “actually pretty.” I never tried to conceal my intersex condition from her. I guess she thought I was binding my chest or something and got freaked out to find out that yes, I am that flat. she makes lots of comments about how I look like an ugly short teenage boy.  I was never particularly confident about my appearance but after being with her for two years, I feel like the ugliest person who ever walked the Earth. 

Found out she’s also a terf and if I had any idea I never would have dated this girl in the first place. Idk if she went terf while dating me or if she always was and chose to conceal this from me til after she moved in. She’s convinced I’m a trans woman, thinks I used to have a penis and is now trying to accuse me of tricking her into sleeping with a man when she’s the one who wanted to have sec with me in the first place

She’s called me a dirty whore for having slept with a man king before I even met her and talks about shit like “male residue” and other bullshit. She has super puritanical views about sex that I didn’t know about until she moved in with me and has been taking them out on me. She called me a slut for using tampons and sneered and was like “I bet that they made your pussy loose and that’s why your ex boyfriend dumped you.” Said sdisgusting things like she bet that to a guy sex with me must feel like “throwing a hotdog down a hallway.” I thought I would never have to hear shit like this from a woman. That’s why I dated a woman in the first place.

She seems to hate everything about me, but at the same time flips out if she catches me talking on the phone, any of my friends or family. She accuses me of sleeping around with all my friends.

Anytime something goes wrong in her life I’m to blame. If our doordash gets delivered to the wrong address, I get screamed at. If she ripped a hole in her favorite pair of pants, I get screamed at. If the screen door gets jammed shut because she kept it she fucking screams at me and sometimes hits me. The only reason I’m still with her is because I can’t afford rent on my own. If I ever break up with her, I’m not dating anyone ever again, because I feel like the ugliest, most revolting undesirable person in the world.

I don’t think I’m ever going to feel normal again. When it comes to dating, people expect you to look like one binary sex or the other, regardless of gender and when you’re something like me that has mixed traits, people freak out.  It feels like being in a relationship being the way I am is just setting myself up for abuse.  My ex-boyfriend was nasty about it too but I thought that was just because he was a dude.  I thought a woman would be more excepting of this kind of thing. She was supposed to be safe.

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[hotfudgecherryrosy]

What do you MEAN pcos can fall under the intersex umbrella? Doctors dont tell me shit!

It took me not having my period for like ~3 months to get diagnosed with pcos because my doctor kept dismissing the symptoms as results of puberty despite the fact i had already finished puberty >:(

One of the symptoms being smth called dirty neck syndrome which can also be a symptom of diabetes (correlation because of insulin resistance) like that couldve been really bad because instead of being treated properly for anything i was sent to a dermatologist that gave me a topical cream that didnt work

"But only 2% of the population is intersex. It's not that common. Why should we reframe or perception of gender for intersex people?"

Completely ignoring the fact that empathy exists. You do realize that 2% of the population in the medical field is considered very common, yes?

2% of children and 0.5% of adults have a peanut allergy and that's so common that they have entire rules around in in public spaces.

0.24-1% of the population has Rheumatoid arthritis. That's an eighth to a half of the number of intersex people!

1-2% of people are estimated to have autism, and that's considered a common condition.

0.1%-2.6% of people will get melanoma in their life time, and that's considered common.

1.2% of people have epilepsy and that's considered common.

Completely ignoring statistics like 6% of women have PCOS (which is a condition that can fall under the intersex umbrella). 2% of the population in the medical field is considered a common condition, and ergo by medical terms intersex is in itself common.

I don't think you realize how big 2% is. That's 2 in 100 people. If you walk into 3 fully filled classrooms (when I was in school a full classroom was 40 students). Chances are you just saw 2 intersex kids and didn't even know it.

So yeah. I think intersex is common enough to include in our discussions around gender and how transphobic rules affects intersex people.

-fae

[normal-with-adhd-is-a-joke]

So far in this lifespan psychology class this professor has:

- used the term hermaphrodite to describe a human

- used the term mentally retarded several times and in fact titled one of her sections in her lecture "mental retardation"

- said that ADHD can be caused by food additives (it can't but nice ableism)

- said that people grow out of ADHD/their need for medication (we don't usually but nice ableism)

- that's it literally all she had to say about ADHD was ableist garbage.

Can somebody else take this one I'm exhausted /hj

[occasionallygiveadamn]

Please report and block asexualpower, it's a fake ace blog created to breed drama and discourse. I was going through Twitter last night and came across a thread with screenshots of their blog (warning for transphobia, homophobia, and lesbophobia.)

I looked at it for myself hoping that somebody had just made some screenshots in photoshop and it's absolutely awful. (Pictures of anti-LGBT+ posts under the cut, including posts against intersex and asexual people.)

This is disgusting, please report them so nobody stumbles on 'em while looking for a positivity blog.