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Miss Major, one of the mothers of the trans liberation movement, has been in the hospital for 10 days with sepsis and a blood clot.
She has looked out for us for generations, now it’s time to look out for her. Donate if you can: fundly.com/missmajor
i hope someday there's more universal understanding that the categories of "overweight" and "obese" and other artifacts of BMI are a piece of medical categorization akin to phrenology
The US is weird because it has a particularly regressive culture, yet living there has significant privileges even for the racialized people who live there. As a Latina, I am not quite safe with ICE running around... at the same time, my conditions are grossly privileged as a result of being a citizen of the imperial core. Both are fully true and I think many struggle with this.
nsfw sideblogs r so funny. my friend we can't talk here it isn't safe.. we have to go to sex world together
Why would you hide this in the comments
there are a lot of undiagnosed adults out there but i do think it's a shame that we've reached a point where having hobbies and interests past the age of 20 is seen as a touch of the tism. i know many older adults who suppress all their childish desires and throw out all their old toys and for what. are you scared of being 'weird' ? who give a shit.
i actually get a bit annoyed with people who get a bit annoyed when people say “sorry” in response to their bad news. “why are you apologizing you didn’t do anything :/” like okay well a) you don’t know that and actually yes i am the secret architect of all your woes and have been this whole time, way to refuse to acknowledge a woman (gender neutral)’s accomplishments. and b) we’re both fluent english speakers so you know perfectly well that “sorry” isn’t always an apology and is very commonly used as an expression of general regret or sympathy. not in this case, because i have been your secret nemesis for years, meticulously plotting your every misery, but, like, in general
Please understand that the only reason intersex traits are seen as "disordered" is because they aren't as common as 'normal' non-intersex traits. That's literally fucking it.
And they go against the white supremacist colonizer need to tell who is a breeder vs who is breedable. That is the point of sex assignment in a post-colonial white supremacist state. If your body or mind doesn't work along with this system, you are disordered. It's why all queerness has been disordered at some point in medical history.
Since Israel has been issuing these evacuation orders practically every day since the start of July, people probably began to think these were all one and the same considering how consecutive they have been, but understand this:
[The so called safe zone] area was reduced from 63 percent of the Strip to 38.8 percent of the Strip by December.
By May, when Israeli forces invaded Rafah, the area was reduced to 20 percent of the Strip. This reduced to 16.4 percent of the Strip by mid June.
Currently, the Israeli army has reduced the humanitarian safe zone to 35 square kilometres, which is equal to 9.5 percent of the total area of the Strip.
Close to two million Palestinians are being squeezed into a corner of the land that is now barely 10% of its original size. These same areas tend to also be where Israeli airstrikes are conducted. If these people survive the airstrikes, will they survive the ever dwindling supply of food, water, medicine or adequate shelter?
It's ethnic cleansing in plain sight.
hello friends. I am starting a fundraiser for food and other essentials for Muhammad Hammam, (@mohammedh79), with whom I’ve been in personal contact for a few weeks.
I have spoken extensively to him and his brother and have seen photos, government IDs, and bank information. I am very confident that this fundraiser is legitimate.
Muhammad is stranded away from his family and facing famine in the north of Gaza, where food is scarce and prices extremely high. He urgently needs help to purchase food. Please give whatever you can or, if you can’t, share this post. 🖤❤️💚
[ID: A man sits on a couch and smiles at the camera; two young girls sit at his side. End ID]
Hello, I am Muhammad from northern Gaza. I'm 27 years old. I lost everything I owned in this war, and now I am unable to feed myself due to extremely high prices. My whole family lives in southern Gaza, but I couldn't leave. I want your help in spreading my campaign to collect the costs of living and food only and nothing more.
PayPal
Venmo: @gothhabiba
Cashapp: $NajiaK
(I will send everything I receive to Muhammad via bank transfer)
Muhammad’s crypto wallet (under the cut)
thank you 🖤❤️💚
Thank you so much for everyone’s generosity! Mohammad hasn’t gotten any donations in a few days.
Yes, absolutely dismantle the gender binary. BUT dont forget to dismantle the sex binary too. Intersex people exist and they regularly get ignored in both queer and non-queer spaces. There are NOT only two sexes, and us perisex trans people CAN NOT forget that or else we will become like our oppressors, people who say there are only two genders and that what you are born as is what you must stay as. Intersexism must be stopped.
Love you all and have fun destroying society’s utterly limiting expectations of our minds and bodies 🫰
Appreciate this post OP, and I'm going to add for the audience - there are also not three sexes. Intersex people come in more variations than you can count. To break the sex binary, you gotta really BREAK it.
And this isn't bc OP implied this, not at all - this is just a common thread that people jump to. "Not two? Okay then, three?" More. More than that. Naturally. Only two hospitals in the US don't do surgeries on intersex infants and the ones who do keep statistics (hospitals aren't required to) reported surgically altering 95% of all infants born with intersex traits for two reported years in a row.
The binary is created with violence. Break it for real.
PSA:
Acetaminophen/paracetamol has a hard stop upper dose limit, above which it becomes extremely toxic.
That limit is 4g (8 “extra strength” (500mg) tablets) in 24 hours (about 2 tablets every 6 hours).
A single dose of 22 extra strength tablets can kill you.
Taking 12 or more tablets per day for more than a week can also kill you (this is about 3 tablets every 6 hours).
Symptoms of overdose take up to 24 hours to manifest, and are fairly difficult to distinguish from other problems. They include abdominal pain (especially right upper quadrant), nausea, malaise, and confusion.
The antidote (n-acetylcystine) must be given within 8hours of ingestion in order to be useful.
After 10 hours the only thing that will work is a liver transplant.
You might think “why would I ever accidentally take so much?”
Well, acetaminophen is in almost everything in the cold/flu/pain aisle. Migraine combos like Excedrin, cold and flu combos like NyQuil, basically anything that says “non-aspirin pain relief”, and anything that’s branded as a fever reducer. It’s all probably acetaminophen/paracetamol.
So the goal of this post is to get you to read the labels on your medications. Because taking taking Tylenol and NyQuil together for a week (like you might if you had the flu) could kill you.
Please don't forget this shit, after it happened to a family member, he died 8 years later because of the continuing health complications even though he survived the initial overdose
Intersex Woman Experience of being 18 at a gay club and having a group of butch dykes laugh at and openly critique the way I dressed - femme, but my body was too masculine, and so I deserved to be mocked for thinking I could dress like that. No lesbian would want a dyke like me. Before I ever let my beard grow out, while I was actively trying to pass.
Intersex Woman Experience of being in a gay club and having multiple gay men ask if I'm a baby drag queen because I was dressed femme, but my body was too masculine, so I couldn't be a woman in a dress - a man in a dress. Before I ever let my beard grow out, while I was actively trying to pass.
Intersex Woman Experience of hitting it off with a trans person at a bar, having great conversation, being misgendered or having my identity incorrectly assumed - and then when I politely say I'm an intersex woman and not trans, there's either fear on their face or they disconnect entirely and the conversation trails off. This is current, this is now.
Queer spaces are not welcoming or safe for intersex people. No group of queer people actively try to include us or make it safe for us.
I don't pass as any gender. People can't even decide what direction I'm trans. If I grow out my hair I'm ma'am until they see my beard. If I cut my hair then I'm sir. Or ma'am. Or sir. If I shave my face or body they assume I'm a trans woman. If I wear a mask but they hear my voice they call me ma'am first then switch to sir in a panic when they decide I'm a trans man. People have seen me naked, my genitals, and asked me about my experience with a bottom surgery I've never actually had. Depending how I dress on any given day I'm either a dyke or a fag to the bigot driving past but it's always one or the other (derogatory). The one consistent thing is I'm Queer.
I can tell you that as a result of this I've been followed into a public restroom and cornered. It's usually not that bad, but it's happened, but I get stares no matter which restroom I try to use. I've had health professionals ask me why my med records say I'm on hormones because they assumed my AGAB to match those hormones; I've had another healthcare professional assault me for being trans. I'm intersex and non-binary. I can tell you by lived experience that I don't have the male privilege people who categorize me as a trans man often think I have. People like me get talked over in spaces dominated by cis folks and trans folks.
Please don't push intersex and non-binary people to the side of your conversations about gender. Don't assume that all intersex people are non-binary--there is no such thing as biologically non-binary and intersex people don't owe it to anyone to fit into a narrative about their identity. What we do share is that by default of not fitting within a binary, we are both pushed out of spaces and left out of conversations that affect us.
People who are intersexist and transphobic decide what gender we are based on what allows them to oppress us the most. How we get treated is based on perceived gender or identity, which is always going to be subjective to the eye of the beholder.
Doing an emotionally exhausting academic paper on intersex medicalization and feeling a pulsating aching sadness through my entire body that feels physical and sickly that resulted in me crying myself to sleep after taking three hours to decompress after it before bed and sharing some of my findings here with sources
Only to have people say "I saw John Money and thought you were going TERFy, glad that isn't the case" and to add long essays via reblog about how important it is to make sure we're not offending perisex queers while talking about this shit
I can already tell I'm almost due for another two year break from Tumblr soon because it feels like being torn apart every single day. How intersex people are so systemically eradicated in such violent ways but we have to pad any information we present about our oppression with fifty disclaimers that we're asking for solidarity from other queer people and not being fucking transphobic by doing so
The state of black and white thinking and reactivity on this app is ridiculous. You can't fucking post true and honest information about the origins of intersex surgical mutilation without people saying this shit. It doesn't make me wanna "go terf" the way you disgusting fuckers imply, it makes me want to kill myself. It is genuinely so fucking emotionally and mentally ruining living like this
There are two hospitals in the entire country of the USA that have committed to not surgically mutilating intersex infants. Two in the country in 2024. Because of John Money's research and work. There is no state in the USA where it is illegal to mutilate intersex infants.
And people are like "damn you gotta make sure people know you're not on the terf side of John Money discourse otherwise how could we possibly know that you're not a transphobe by bringing this up" despite all the context clues in the post and on my blog and I'm supposed to want to continue living on this planet? I feel fucking broken down to nothing right now.
John Money was fucking transphobic too and I didn't fucking realize people saw criticizing a violent eugenicist that ran testosterone manipulation experiments (chemical castration) on sex offenders to "tame" them as a terf stance. I feel like I'm fucking insane right now. He said trans women were "devious, demanding and manipulative” and "incapable of love," can we critique him openly PLEASE?
Pour one out for a real one.
Reading up on him, he was a pretty cool guy. He was one of the first people to stand up to John Money about his theories of gender development and position that intersex infants should receive surgery and never be told about it using his abuse of David Reimer as ‘proof’, asserting that Money didn’t have the evidence and standing his ground even when Money straight up started screaming at him. And then later he was proven right when he got into contact with David Reimer, not only discovering proof that Money was wrong but also how abusive and horrific Money had been. He then went on to write advocating for intersex and trans rights and to avoid unnecessary procedures on intersex people without full informed consent and that intersex people are part of natural human variation and that we deserve acceptance and not to be treated like a disorder.
A quote I really like from him: ‘Nature loves diversity, society hates it’
"Kids aren't forced on HRT" except I was, and I was raped by a female OBGYN as a CHILD with the largest metal speculum this woman had available ON PURPOSE to punish me while she laughed with her nurse, humiliated me, and called me at home to continue harassing me. I was then forced onto estrogen to "normalize" my intersex body.
I hate people who say kids aren't forced onto HRT about as much as I hate when TERFs say that they are - in reference to trans perisex people, because they do believe intersex people need to be "cured" and should be forced onto HRT. Kids are forced onto HRT, it's just not the kids that perisex people care about, whether those perisex people are for or against HRT. Stop erasing our fucking existence to defend your fucking existence and find a better fucking argument.
You can't defend autonomy without indulging in intersexist violence?
Trans perisex people should reblog this btw. Yeah, it's graphic and difficult and triggering. How many intersex perspectives are you listening to? How many of us have you ever listened to?
I attended a writing seminar online and a few of the attendees were from Gaza, some of them told us they were joining from their tents.
I wish I can summarise everything that we talked about but one topic kept coming up and I think it's really important for us to keep in mind while talking about Gaza and Palestine.
It's true that sometimes it feels as though we have created an image of this Gazan Hero who has endured and fought to survive on the land time after time, reemerging victorious each time - not considering that this supposed hero did not have a say in their fate; without considering how thoughts like this strips Gazans from their basic human traits.
It was like a punch in the gut to hear the words of this emerging author talking to us from her tent in Gaza, almost begging the listeners to understand that she is unable to write because she can't stop thinking about her embroidered dresses she had to leave behind. Or the other displaced man who chimed in to say that he can't write because he can't reason with the fact he's still alive.
Another person from Gaza told the story of how when the news of American soldiers aiding in the massacres in Gaza came out, he overheard a man say something like "they can bring in all of the US military, we are not scared" and he describes how angry that phrase made him, and how he ran home and wrote and wrote and wrote nonstop.
So this is a reminder to you and me that when we talk about Gaza, to remember their humanity and to put it at the forefront of our discussions; Gazans feel scared, they feel hate and love, they feel ashamed, jealous, angry and even defeated.
To create this image of the Gazan Hero is truly harmful when you realise that it's in fact part of the bigger issue of dehumanising Palestinians as a whole.
