Intersex Confessions

Confessions by intersex people, for intersex people. Inbox closed to catch up on submissions. (Perisex allies & confessions also welcome, just wipe your feet and take your shoes off before entering.)

[interconfessions]

Interconfessions: for all your intersex-related confession blog needs

Following much micro-fracturing of this site’s intersex community along lines I’m frankly too old to comprehend and many, many intersex-themed blogs and intersex bloggers repeatedly being harassed off the platform or terminated by staff for being openly queer, a new themed confessions blog rises in the hopes that having an incredibly offline blogrunner will prevent it from immediately imploding on itself! Welcome to interconfessions.

Given the nature of these kinds of blogs and how often people running these blogs will be harassed just for doing so, I probably will not be revealing my identity. This may change in the future. Who knows?

Here are the rules and FAQ pages, both of which are currently very basic. Just don’t be a dick and keep in mind that I, the person running this blog, will be the one catching all the heat for what you submit, so behave yourself. The queue currently posts up to ten times per 24-hour period, once per hour. Have fun and give your local intersex person $20 today.

[this-is-internoirism]

I'm so proud of you, Black intersex people. I know you may be thinking you didn't do anything to be proud of, but you have. Your mere existence is something that I am proud of in an inherently internoirist society- especially in the west and US. I am so proud that you continue to exist in spite of those who want to bring us down. It's okay to be scared, to mourn what could've been for different reasons, to wish you were in a different world. But you continuing to have a presence and taking up space takes courage.

I'm proud of you, okay?

[coward2coward]

[squiiiduo]

I have no respect for people who write intersexuality as if it’s only for sex, I love writers and will always respect their work but do not excuse your intersexism if ur only gonna treat intersex people like sex toys bruh

[thisis-intersexism]

This is intersexism.

[ffyaoi-moved-deactivated2026011]

dude its so fucking annoying how intersex men are almost NEVER involved in discussions about toxic masculinity and discourse against masc queers

please, please, listen to intersex guys. stop erasing them. there are intercis guys and intertrans guys, there are cistrans intersex guys and intersex guys with other complex identities. everytime you claim all cis men are bad while all trans men are good, you just hurt more intersex men. youre not an "ally" for this, youre straight up being a jerk. also fellow peritrans men, STOP acting like youre the only one whos oppressed. no, intersex men dont have it "better" than you. the patriarchy hates them just as much as it hates you. dont ignore them. instead hug them and show them how much you love them. spreading this shitty "x bad y good" belief will just cause more people to kill themselves

[boythingrobot]

Am I being too intersex if I said it kind of annoys me when perisex trans people point out 'hey it's unfair that cis people get gender affirming care and we dont' without pointing out how often said cis people are intersex. Like yesss I totally agree as a trans person myself but important context is that the kids getting hormone blockers and hrt are often intersex and possibly being forced on that care against their will . Consent is the most important part of this conversation and the double standard is absolutely an example of transphobia and intersexism, trying to fit the groups that go against conservative ideas of gender and sex into a rigid binary

[cah-culture-is]

hey can i get like, a symptoms and experiences list for adrenal crises or something?

Adrenal Insufficiency may include symptoms of chronic fatigue, chronic pain, weakness, dizziness, hypotension (which may be posture-dependant, like in POTS), tachycardia, hypoglycemia, hyponatremia and/or salt cravings, unintentional weight loss, and hyperpigmentation. Note that symptoms may be different depending on which enzyme deficiency you (suspect you) have. 17-AH enzyme deficiency for example rarely causes adrenal insufficiency/crisis in the first place and rather hypertension and hypokalemia occurs, both due to increased blood circulation of the aldosterone precursor corticosterone.

Adrenal Crisis is a life-threatening ER trip-worthy medical complication. Warning signs include much of the above symptoms albeit in more severe forms, along with back/flank pain, confusion & disorientation of surroundings, fever, and loss of consciousness.

... funnily enough and only tangentially related because I realized it while researching for this post, cannabis actually helped me figure out I had adrenal insufficiency— or at least its symptoms— in the first place. Cannabis does a bunch of shit to your body but notably it dilates your blood vessels (which is why the red eyes happen), dilated blood vessels lead to a drop in blood pressure, aaaand welp! Obligatory "don't follow this advice. especially if cannabis is illegal in your area or you're underage" of course because I have genuinely almost passed out... thankfully for me JUST almost. I've gone temporarily blind before due to being on the verge of losing consciousness but never fainting though! Terrifying 0/10 don't recommend

[vh-vulvicryptid]

so since tumblr has very vague rules around ""mature content"" and in the future i wanna avoid randomly having my account nuked, i made a dropbox folder which has some decent illustrated diagrams. most are peritypical, but there are also diagrams on labial fusion and the Russian diagram on the different degrees of vulvar hypospadias. there's also one on fetal genital development. i'll add more as i find them!

[vh-vulvicryptid]

ippolyta v-hypospadias here! think my account got nuked for sex ed

they flagged one of my posts that had some (illustrated, clearly medical, under a read more) diagrams of vulvas. I appealed it and then like, a minute or two later, the blog was just??? gone????

this is really shitty but i'm gonna contact @support and see if I can't get it back. until then this blog will be here!

edit: yep, got suspended for "sharing sexually explicit materials." sent them a report so hopefully it will be brought back. the fact that this happened over a single post is crazy to me. not even the og post, just one reblog. like damn!!!!

@intersexcat-tboy @yourfaveisintersex @thisis-intersexism @gonyadaldysgenesis could you help get the word out?

[coward2coward]

transgender intersex people - you are not less intersex for going on hrt. you are not less transgender for being intersex. you are still intersex if hrt lessens or removes your symptoms. having a large clit expected of you for taking testosterone does not erase your history of clitoromegaly. being on testosterone or estrogen doesnt erase your history of hypoestrogenism/hypoandrogenism. going on testosterone and having your symptoms go away doesnt erase your history of PCOS. going on estrogen doesnt erase your history of AIS/PAIS/MAIS even if your route of treatment lessens or removes your intersex symptoms, it is still a part of you, and a part to be proud of 💛💜💛

[marcyie-deactivated20260322]

i've seen at least three different people flourish and find genuine peace with themselves over finding out PCOS can be a intersex variation if the individual feels represented. this is more than enough for me. i dont need a doctor to say anything. these people that i cared for bloomed open like a sunflower to the stars, all because of this community. maybe not to the same extent or in the same way, but it helped them. thats what matters. thats the point of it all

[imjunebitch]

i lobe u intersex ppl someday u will stop having to be so strong and the queer community will treat you the way you deserve to be treated, lobed for how beautiful u are. strength is a virtue but I would much rather u be safe and happy and loved and accepted like u deserve. someday I pray none of us have to be strong

[literally-black-jesus]

I hate how easy it is to find csem/csam (child sexual exploitation/abuse material) by just looking up anything about being intersex and how absolutely no one talks about it or cares about it. The amount of times I'm just trying to do research on my own body and I have to see horrible fucking images of children as the first thing that pops up. People treat it like it's less harmful because it's "medical." I don't give a shit If it's medical it's pictures of naked children sometimes in the middle of surgery. Does no one see the problem with this? I feel like I'm fucking crazy being angry about this. The only people I ever see talking about it are other intersex and it's just so isolating. People talk about how bad csem/csam is but they treat it like it's some crazy hard thing to find when all you have to do is look up the word intersex and you'll find endless pictures of naked babies and children. I need to see more people talking about this

[queercripintersex]

Whenever I see perisex people making claims at "transintersex" I feel so bad for intersex people who are trans. Like, this used to be a term for them. This should be a term for them.

And now perisex people aren't just appropriating the term, I'm seeing them call people who are actually intersex (i.e. born intersex) "cisintersex".

Just like, holy fuck, how insensitive is it to be calling all intersex people CISintersex.

Intersex people can have any gender modality. I'm not cis. Don't tell me what my gender modality is. Stop erasing trans, ipso, and ultergender intersex people. This isn't acceptable, this is misgendering and it's contributing to the erasure of non-cis intersex people.

[willowbilly]

Nonbinary people, intersex people, genderqueer and gender nonconforming people, two spirit people, and other culture-specific genders being negatively affected by anti-trans legislation are not "collateral damage." Any and all nonconformity with the Western cisperisexist sexgender binary is being punished on purpose.

[spyritsolz]

“AFAB-bodied” and “AMAB-bodied” defeat the whole purpose of AGAB language. Like it’s supposed to recognize that sex assignment and the actual body you have are not always the same thing. This can be because of intersex variations, transitioning, injuries, ect.

AGAB is literally just the letter your doctors put on your birth certificate when you were fresh out of the womb. That’s it. It literally only describes how you looked as an infant, and even then, there are many cases where it does not represent the whole story.

“AFAB-bodied” and “AMAB-bodied” are meaningless terms. Say the specific trait you mean when talking about a specific issue. Say vulva. Say uterus. Say penis. Say testicles. Say clitoris. Say vagina. Say testosterone. Say estrogen. Please

[coward2coward]

its honestly really liberating to talk to other intersex people in the context of my own identity. i spent so much of my life convinced there was something wrong with me. no one else shared my experiences. i never could be a boy or a girl, it was all so far out of my own reach. of course i knew there were other intersex people out there, but i never felt like i was intersex "enough." seeing so many other people out there that relates to me, that have similar experiences despite our differences meant the world. i felt like i wasnt alone, and that people actually understood me for who i was. for so so long people had just assumed my experiences based on how i grew up and my identity as it relates to the perisex centric view on gender and it was so relieving to finally not have to deal with any of that