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he/him/himselves nonhuman, person of colour, intersex mostly reblogs

[sickly-sapphic]

time for another lil poll, abt shi/hir pronouns!!

are shi/hir pronouns intersex exclusive?

Yes, completely exclusive (I'm intersex)

I'd prefer if perisex ppl didn't use them (I'm intersex)

No, they're for everyone (I'm intersex)

Yes, completely exclusive (I'm perisex)

I'd prefer if perisex people didn't use them (I'm perisex)

No, they're for everyone (I'm perisex)

Voting ended onJul 23, 2024

a really brief history!! Shi/Hir pronouns were used for "intersex" (usually described with the H slur) furry art, and later intersex people began reclaiming the pronoun.

In most spaces, ive found a sort of "Id prefer if perisex people didn't use shi/hir but there's bigger fish to fry" (the middle option) sort of attitude from intersex people, and mostly perisex people defending it being used for all.

But!! My experiences aren't universal and maybe there's a lot of other opinions out there so feel free to share that in the tags

[theforesteldritch]

Intersex people are not ‘tokenizing’ ourselves when we talk about shit we’ve faced because we’re intersex. We are not ‘tokenizing’ ourselves when we tell people that they are erasing us. Again. I am so fucking tired of people dismissing the idea that, hey, maybe growing up as a kid with a vagina and testes may have affected my relationship with my own self and how the world sees me! Maybe people could listen when we tell you how maybe trying to force us, a demographic famously both traumatized from attempts to force us into a binary and a demographic that doesn’t neatly fit into one, into a binary framework of oppression that tries to reduce, reduce, reduce me until there is no intersectionality to consider and I am a sticker you can slap into one category because the world is black and white and nuance is to be eradicated. I want to scream. How many times will I have to display the worst moments of my life for you for it to be enough for you to acknowledge?

[sweetriverstyx]

wow what a wonderful family i hope nothing bad happens to them

[elysianw1ngs]

hey chat guess who drew an emo scourge pfp for my oc who likes warrior cats‼️

-Please ask for my permission before: Reposting, reuploading or using my artwork for purposes such as profile pictures, etc.

[sickly-sapphic]

Intersex people deserve spaces that don't just tolerate their existance, but celebrate it.

Intersex people deserve spaces that don't instinctively refer to them as "cis people with sex development disorders".

Intersex people deserve spaces with dedicated space for us, resources and action when intersexism arises.

Intersex people deserve spaces with the INTERSEX flag hung proudly alongside other queer pride flags.

Intersex people deserve to see themselves included, represented, uplifted, educated on, and celebrated.

[smogpool]

It’s my second favorite character Squilf! I like her a lot, she’s such a good character

[pitbolshevik]

it's actually insane how crazy turbo misogynistic warrior cats is when it's literally a book series about talking cats

[pitbolshevik]

@toddycats

so off the top of my head (im gonna assume you've read the first 3 arcs so i won't go into a lot of detail on those):

-literally everything that happened to leafpool. they put that poor cat through hell idk what she did to piss them off. she was almost sent to hell over her fling with crowfeather while crowfeather got a fucking promotion

-bramble's treatment of squirrelflight has gotten a lot worse and the narrative never punishes him and in fact bends over backwards to justify his actions

-sparkpelt (squirrelflight's daughter) gets villainized to hell and back because she had postpartum depression. one of the newer protags is her son who does nothing but complain about what a bitch she is even when she's doing literally nothing wrong. you could argue this is unreliable narration but, again, the narrative constantly makes excuses for him and even the character blurb on the website demonizes her

-dawn of the clans as a whole was almost comically misogynistic (there was more fridging of female characters than I've ever seen in this series holy shit) but there was a character named bumble who was being physically abused and tried to seek shelter in the clans. instead of helping, the protagonists ridicule her and suggest that maybe it's her fault and that she's too weak to survive in the wild anyway. she's later found murdered and this is treated as proof that the protagonists were right.

-and guess who gets a quasi-redemption arc later? the guy who abused her :)

-the feathertail graphic novel is...bizzarrely victim blamey and acts like sasha is somehow culpable for tigerstar's crimes

-hawkwing's super edition shows him being fucking horrible to his love interest and blaming her for the death of his brother, even straight up telling her that he wishes she'd died instead. when he eventually gives her a halfhearted apology she immediately accepts it and his treatment of her is framed as reasonable. they get together literally immediately after.

-they sent a random fenale character to hell for simply being in the general area when mapleshade's children drowned

[pitbolshevik]

OH and that one background character in yellowfang's super edition who's literally just Evil Feminist (cat edition)

[sickly-sapphic]

perisex queer people often discourage me from being so aggressively pro-intersex, even suggesting it'll be hard to find any community if I insist on intersex inclusion so much and honestly.... all its done is make me MORE passionate about it and from that I've literally only gained more community

[status-quo-hater]

Cis woman: "if a man harasses me ill just tell him I have a penis so he'll leave me alone"

Trans people: "that's a terrible idea don't do that please"

Meanwhile..

Trans people: "I tell people i'm intersex so people won't know I'm trans"

Intersex people: "that's a terrible idea don't do that please"

Trans people: "wtf this is transphobic people should have the right to protect themselves from being hate crimed what is wrong with you? You just want trans people to be harassed and murdered don't you"

Intersex people: 🤦🏻‍♂️

Lying about being part of a different minority group to hide your actual minority status will never protect you from bigotry. Like congrats now you made yourself a target of transphobia AND intersexism. Or in the first case a target of misogyny AND transphobia.

Half the trans people I've seen do this in person are literally in no danger and just say it to explain why they don't pass to random ass people who are posing no threat to them. Can y'all like shut up?

[inklett]

I know we always do Scourge with the emo cut but I had a vision where he had a mohawk idk

[lesbianambermoon]

Can you please draw Star Flower?

i swear to god when i was reading moth flights vision i remember a line that described her eyes as violet or something and so since then ive always seen her eyes as purple. if im hallucinating that line well its a good idea anyways. yellow and purple are compliments hehe

[artbulls]

some kitties

[deactivated-blog]

for 10+ years i've found it funny and had to bite my tongue when the normal response(even from people who are not intersex) to this type of question:

Aka "Can I transition into intersex? Can I identify as Intersex"? is:

while the very same system & people prohibit this:

it has confused me for over a decade

[fakingdisorder]

trying to be as open as i can be, and use as technical of terms as i can (which is something the reddit post missed out on).

but the label of intersex is a replacement for DSD (disorders of sex development), which is a term to stigmatize individuals with divergent congenital sex development. it was and still is used as a term to justify the coercive re-assignment of intersex children and adults into the sex binary through forced HRT and surgery.

intersex is a community term which was coined and popularized to de-pathologize the status of having naturally divergent sex characteristics.

"intersex" is not a sex assignment or gender, its an umbrella term for a wide variety of experiences, and is used as a community term to seek people with similar experiences with their bodies and oppression. the reason you cannot "transition" to intersex is because being intersex is not just a term for how someone looks physically (and implying that would be really intersexist), nor is it a sex, its a term to describe someones diagnosable health conditions, someones experiences with systemic oppression, as well as an empowering word to embrace their body.

"intersex" as a term just isnt comparable to male or female. i suppose the comparison i would make is that "transitioning to intersex" is more like transitioning to having a health condition. while not exact, its a more accurate description than comparing it to transitioning to female.

[deactivated-blog]

trying to be as open as i can be, and use as technical of terms as i can (which is something the reddit post missed out on).

but the label of woman is a replacement for female, which is a term to stigmatize individuals with feminine sex development. it was and still is used as a term to justify the coercive assignment of feminine children and adults into the sex binary through forced assignment of a reproductive labor based societal role and cosmetics

woman is a community term which was coined and popularized to de-pathologize the status of having naturally feminine sex characteristics.

"woman" is not a sex assignment or gender, its an umbrella term for a wide variety of experiences, and is used as a community term to seek people with similar experiences with their bodies and oppression. the reason you cannot "transition" to female is because being a woman is not just a term for how someone looks physically (and implying that would be really sexist), nor is it a sex, its a term to describe someones diagnosable fertility health condition, someones experiences with systemic oppression, as well as an empowering word to embrace their body.

"female" as a term just isnt comparable to male. i suppose the comparison i would make is that "transitioning to female" is more like transitioning to having a health condition. while not exact, its a more accurate description than comparing it to transitioning to male.

[pluralbloodclan]

you sound like one of the losers who get upset when people of colour are cautious around white people because "if you replace white people with black people you'd call it racist!".

groups of people do not exist in a vacuum. ignoring all societal and social context of what's being said to go "well if you replace this group with another group then it sounds bad, doesn't it?" is a thought-terminating cliché and not an actual argument.

[ferncloud]

sunbeam

[antarctite]

why is the rebuttal to intersex ppl complaining ab sex assignment “oh so you’re saying everyone else’s assignments are correct?” bcuz thats purposely missing the point to paint us AS bioessentialists BY bioessentialists. what intersex people mean by “referring to us as our agab is probably incorrect because it was forced on us” is that we can’t be made perisex by forced surgeries or hrt. its not about the assignment being accurate as a binary but just not to us specifically, its about seeing us as “fixable.” and i do have to reiterate, if you see “i was forcibly assigned female as an infant with surgery” and you think “the doctor was right, you are now Actually Female because you have a Real Normal Vagina” you’re probably not trustworthy in trans discussions.

but yea anyway demonize us in your 1,000 note posts. thanks dyadics

[weekly-eons]

intersex jolteon maybe?

yellow and ourple

[vulturesawake]

Why are so many people convinced that "white, passing trans man in a liberal city surrounded by supportive family, peers, and medical professionals who is systemically equal to a cis man" is universally the only transmasculine experience in the entire world ever