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amab intersex transmasc people exist

afab intersex transfem people exist

transmascfem people exist

transfemmasc people exist

deal with it

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everytime a butch of color tells me how they never thought they could call themselves butch bc they only ever saw the identity being used by white butches it makes my heart so sad. one of my best friends who’s butch tells me all the time how he’s still getting used to calling himself butch after years of thinking it was something only to be claimed by white butches:( butches of color u are so so seen and so so loved.

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Disabled butches are allowed to want to be protectors. Putting all disabled people into one category is counterproductive. Not all disabled people want to be viewed as weak. Equating being a protector to physical strength or ability is harmful. Being a protector is more than just the physical aspect. It can be shown through how you care for and comfort others, how you show love to your community, through your advocacy, and how you provide guidance. Being caring and vulnerable are traits of a true protector, too. Being a protector means understanding that physical violence isn't always the answer. This is why a lot of people fall flat and fail to protect others.

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There needs to be more love for butches who aren’t tv show butch. There’s NOTHING wrong with a good strong butch but some butches aren’t that strong and that’s okay!

Butches can be strong in other ways! Butches come in so many different shapes and sizes! We love all the disabled butches, skinny butches, fat butches, shy butches, butches with any pronouns, and butches in any way!

I may not be able to lift weights but I can hold the door for my femme, I can drive them around, butches can do so much more than be muscular!

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because while these spaces can be welcoming, it doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement. in scene spaces alone, ive seen fat scensters get insulted, told to lose weight just to be scene, etc. I have also seen an alt person use fat as an insult. Eating disorders related to fatmisia are rampant in these spaces too.

tbh more alternative people should educate themselves on fat liberation.

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Being a fat femme means that my body is inherently political. Every inch, crevice, fold, roll, curve, and stretch mark is political. Everything about this body is a political statement about love, growth, and defiance in a world that tells me I shouldn't exist. They will insist that beauty requires conformity and, as a result of that, self-hatred. That's why I strive to love my body more and more every day. Remember that the very act of self-love is one of the most radical forms of resistance.

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fat lesbians are so perfect please screw off if you think otherwise

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I generally call myself a trans man and want top surgery but. I also have a massive kink for embarrassing people with my boobs, if that makes sense. Like since I'm quite tall, hugging a short boy and going huh why are you blushing? after pressing their face right into my chest. So I'm honestly considering getting just an extreme breast reduction so I can be topless and wear men's button ups comfortably but still have something to work with. I'm not sure if that is what I'll go with but seeing you talk about one of your alters' gender and seeing other people on this blog talk about kink influenced genders is what made me consider it as an actual possibility, and I wanted to thank yall for that :')

I'm so happy to have helped, anon!

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Intersex students deserve the right to play sports with their peers—like any other student. They deserve the fun, confidence, and friendship that school sports can provide. Two newly-introduced bills in Congress that would restrict sports access, H.R.28 and S.9, are questioning those rights. If the bills become law, some intersex students may lose access to school sports altogether.

Like many statewide bills, these bills also fail to understand that sex and gender are complex. H.R.28 and S.9 determine a student’s sex by “reproductive biology” and “genetics at birth” and demand that students participate in sports categories aligned with their sex. But it is unclear how these will be interpreted for intersex students, who have bodies that don’t fit neatly into “male” and “female” categories based on their biology and genetics.

Especially concerning are questions about how a student’s sex would be “verified,” and who decides whether a student is “female enough.” Any enforcement of these bills is incredibly threatening to the privacy and safety of student athletes, especially for those in K-12 grades. The risk of harassment and discomfort may only chase more intersex and transgender students out of sports.

We asked several interACT Youth who are current or former athletes in school to share their own stories, to be read in Congress. Read what they have to say, and contact your legislator to encourage them to vote no on H.R.28 and S.9.

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pt; you are racist

reminder that if you think other cultures having "third genders" is inherently transmisogynistic

꧁✬◦°⋆⋆°◦. 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓲𝓼𝓽 ◦°⋆⋆°◦✬꧂

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Newsflash!!! If your doctor says your baby has "gonads" that need removal or that there is a genital "deformity" these words are code for intersex baby. REFUSE UROLOGY SURGERY FOR YOUR INFANT UNLESS THEY CAN PROVE IT WILL EFFECT YOUR BABY IN THE NEXT YEAR. sometimes urethras are blocked or there's legitimate impact to functionality. Otherwise almost always surgery can wait till your child is old enough to understand what is happening. As someone who went through pediatric urology- you don't want them operating unless it's 100% necessary. The procedures are gruesome and traumatic (and often not anesthetized) most people use it as a first resort when surgery should ALWAYS be a last resort especially for minors.

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Tips for Writing an Intersex Character with Grace

I’m an intersex person—and a novelist myself—who’s had the blessing of growing up in intersex support and activism communities. After 15 years immersed in these topics, I’ve built up a great deal of knowledge about what is and isn’t anatomically possible, politics and inter-community dynamics, which pop culture depictions go down smooth, and which leave a pit in the stomach. -Hans Lindahl, 2022

This resource webpage serves as a very informative starting point for those who wish to involve intersex characters or intersex themes in their storytelling! To emphasize their knowledge on the topic, Hans is expecting their intersex-focused debut graphic novel, I'm Going Through Something, to release in 2027! <3

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I've been seeing a lot of intersex people on tumblr making the claim that you cannot be born with both a penis and a vagina, and I think that what they are trying to do is fight against the Hermaphrodite stereotype - which involves being born with a "fully formed and fully functional" (under perisex ideas of genital normality - our genitals may be fully formed and fully functional to us even if others do not consider them so) penis and vagina.

The thing is, it's been slowly evolving from correcting misinformation to actively spreading it and erasing the lived experiences of those of us with ambiguous genitals.

I think that part of the reason for this is that most folks in the intersex community trend more towards either side of the genital spectrum, and those of us born with more ambiguous genitals are less common, and those of us who were allowed to remain ambiguous beyond childhood and into adulthood are even less common, much less speaking about it regularly on tumblr. As such, you get a lot of generally well-meaning intersex people just sort of making guesses as to what that experience is like and playing a sort of game of telephone about it.

You can be born with both a penis and a vagina, it just may not look or function the way perisex people would expect a penis or vagina to look or function.

A hypospadic micropenis is still a penis. A shallow vagina that doesn't go anywhere is still a vagina. There are plenty of combinations out there, they just don't fit perisex ideas of normality or what might immediately come to mind when we talk about someone having "both sets of genitals".

This isn't even getting into our own perceptions of ourselves and how we label our genitals, as well. Just like how a transmasc individual may refer to his bottom growth as a dick, intersex folk label their genitals a variety of different ways regardless of what others think a penis, vulva, vagina etc "should" look like or what they're "medically" considered to have.

Anyway, just something I've noticed and wanted to talk about a bit. We can combat stereotypes without throwing each other under the bus.

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Can perisex trans bootlickers stop claiming that “sex is real, it’s gender that’s fake” or saying that trans people can’t change our sexes “but we’re still our genders” or arguing that your AGAB is inherently anything beyond a singular event in your past, or whatever?

These beliefs harm all sex variant people. I know some trans people may be comfortable not altering their physical sex, but that doesn’t mean the ones who do aren’t literally changing their sex.

Gender affirming surgeries and care were called “sex change” procedures for a reason. This novel re-definition of “sex” as being strictly chromosomes is a transphobic and intersexist response to the increased visibility of trans people. The line of thought was “well, I don’t want them to be able to change their sex! So I’m going to re-define sex as something we can’t (yet) change,” as well as, “well, I want to enforce the sex binary on intersex people, so I’m going to create a system to be able to force them into binary boxes based on whether or not they have a Y chromosome.”

Stop enforcing the sex binary. It is a bigoted concept and it hurts people. Stand by your intersex and transsexual siblings and don’t let us be erased.

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We have new branding!

New year, new us—we have a new logo and look. Can you believe interACT is older than the intersex flag itself? We wanted to resemble the intersex flag colors more closely, to represent our continued commitment to the rights of all intersex people. Thank you for being part of interACT's journey. Here's a little behind-the-scenes of how we got here! 2006: Advocates for Informed Choice (now interACT!) was founded by attorney Anne Tamar-Mattis. AIC was founded on a focused mission of ending harmful medical interventions on intersex children. Awareness of the legal questions surrounding children with intersex traits was beginning to grow, but no organization had undertaken legal advocacy on behalf of these children. 2011: AIC started “inter/ACT”, a youth-led advocacy program for intersex teens and twenty-somethings to come together, share experiences and raise intersex awareness. Very quickly the group began to have an impact on social media and even television growing into the first successful intersex youth advocacy group in the world. 2013: Morgan Carpenter created the intersex flag, which has grown immensely in popularity in the decade since. 2016: AIC became interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth, named after its youth program inter/ACT – a name developed by our young leaders and one that both recognizes and honors intersex youth voices which are at the heart and soul of our mission. The new logo kept the symbol and colors of the inter/ACT program. 2025: interACT updated its logo and colors. Our new colors align more closely with the intersex flag, to make it immediately clear who we are and what we stand for. They also represent interACT’s path forward, as both a youth-centered organization and a major player on a national legal scale. interACT represents both the friendliness of our youth program and the seriousness that belongs on documents headed to the Supreme Court.

Stick around for big moves coming this year! <3

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Reminder to multigender people (and trans people in general, but this came up on the multigender survey so I'm addressing multigender people in particular) that you can't "transition to become intersex." You can absolutely transition to have mixed sex characteristics, or both a penis and a vagina, or whatever other transition is best for you, but if you're not intersex you shouldn't refer to yourself that way. Intersex people have repeatedly explained that it's inaccurate and offensive to claim you're "transitioning to intersex," don't do that.

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any use of the word baeddel is intersexist

transandromisia skeptics fuck off